There's a new biodegradable disposable nappy on the market. It's Safeties, and they are available from Babies Galore. Good on Babies Galore for stocking them. Babies Galore also stock other environmentally friendly brands, like Nature's Child, and Seventh Generation.
I haven't tried them yet. What are they like? It's great to have another nappy available that doesn't use Gel to absorb wetness. Gel interferes with baby's sex hormones, so who really wants to put that poison next to their babe's genitals?
We've been using Bambo Nature during the day. Mums Happy Nappies has them at a very economical price for an environmentally friendly disposable that is Gel free. Postage is free too in the Brisbane area. Seventh Generation make nappies that are chlorine free, but unfortunately they do contain Gel.
What other biodegradable nappies have you tried?
What I want to know is, what is the differernce between "Infant" and "Crawler"? They are for the same weight range. Do babies that are crawling have different nappy needs to slow fat babies who are still just wiggling around?
I haven't tried them yet. What are they like? It's great to have another nappy available that doesn't use Gel to absorb wetness. Gel interferes with baby's sex hormones, so who really wants to put that poison next to their babe's genitals?
We've been using Bambo Nature during the day. Mums Happy Nappies has them at a very economical price for an environmentally friendly disposable that is Gel free. Postage is free too in the Brisbane area. Seventh Generation make nappies that are chlorine free, but unfortunately they do contain Gel.
What other biodegradable nappies have you tried?
What I want to know is, what is the differernce between "Infant" and "Crawler"? They are for the same weight range. Do babies that are crawling have different nappy needs to slow fat babies who are still just wiggling around?
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Wow, now I don't know if I should feel bad. We considered buying you real cotton nappies but just sort of assumed your mum would! I mean, I know they take washing and you have to actually confront what bundle-of-joy did in them, but.. hmm... I suppose water is a bit more scarce where you are, so you don't want to have to wash any more than necessary, I hadn't thought of that.
Okay, I see why you want biodegradable... although then there's the question of production costs and the requirement of throwing away vs reusability of cotton but water consumption in washing. How much water is used in producing the biodegradable nappies?
I'm not trying to change your mind, and I can totally see how disposable is bliss (like really!), I'm just not sure I won't go with traditional nappies should I ever have a baby - no less, probably the very same nappies that my mother used on me!!
That said, you're the mum, I'm the girl who has no kids and knows only three, and they live in WA! :)
Claire :)
Yeah, it's a hard calculation. It's also a matter of what water consumption goes into producing the cotton, making the cloth etc. We've got a good set of organic cotton nappies. We use them at night. We've tried the during the day, Julius doesn't like it. This baby seems to wee/poo an uncommon amount. It's not uncommon for him to wet his cloth nappies three times in five minutes. He gets very upset about it, and with cloth nappies you've got to change them straight away. We'd be going through about 30 a day, which is a lot of washing. And you tend to need at least 3 days worth of nappies in the cupboard if you don't want to be washing all the time. Hopefully as he gets to the infant stage, he'll wee less often and he won't need disposables. At the moment, we use disposables during the day, when he is active, and cloth at night because he wees less while he is asleep. Boy, all this discussion about wee and poo! I guess it's a huge part of having babies, and of every body's daily life, although it's not often we have a reason to talk about it!
Disposables are also essential when leaving the house. It's a bit yuck to cart around bags of wee and poo. :) And when baby is sick, disposables mean you have to disturb him less.
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