Why cloth?

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Not true.

The study that claims cloth is no better washes the nappies at 90 using bleach and softener - as you know, you wash at 60 with NO bleach or softener as these are bad for the nappies. You also don't iron nappies, as the study was doing!

Each disposable takes 8l (or 6l, can't recall) of water to make, so if you wash 20 nappies at a time that's about the same amount of water. 25 nappies at a time and you're saving water. Disposables also use a LOT more oil, a resource that ATM is running out very quickly..

DS gets nappy rash with disposables and hates the feel of them, he likes his cloth.

Disposables MAY cause infertility and other problems - the temperature is higher than a cloth nappy so boys may have spermatogenesis problems in later life (the testes are still developing in a baby and we know that those boys need to be kept cool!) and the chemicals can affect girls (even talc affects girls' bits).

Cloth babies require less washing as they are aware of being wet so are toilet trained earlier.

HTH!

edit: babysocks, I love your sig! such a nice poem.