There are lots of babies out there, and 4 million new ones each year in the United States alone. What do babies do best? Eat, sleep, and the most disgusting and smelly of this trifecta: poop.
Where does all that poop go? In diapers, of course, unless you have some magically trained baby that can use a toilet straight out of the womb. But all those disposable diapers make a lot of disposable waste in our landfills.
So what's the alternative? Let your kid go commando and hope he learns to use the toilet in four days? That seems a bit messy. Want something more logical (and that won't get lots of baby turds on your carpet)? Cloth diapers are a great alternative.
Cloth diapers were all the rage back in the day, before plastic was invented. They come with one major problem: the average newborn poops four to eight times a day. That's over 30 diapers a week. That's a lot of diapers to wash and a lot of poop to clean up. So what's a parent to do? San Diego has some great cloth diaper services that will pick up your poopy diapers and bring you fresh clean ones.
While disposable diapers will inevitably be cheaper than a diaper service, using cloth diapers is cheaper and obviously better for the environment. Use cloth diapers for as long as you can handle them, then get some help with cleaning them!
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