Why cloth?

[Neenee Jellybeanie]

Thanks for the replies everyone!

rosehip; I heard that there's mounting evidence that talc causes cervical cancer in girls, so I use cornflour for Aurelia (only when she needs it though).

Well after reading all this, I think i'll give my cloth nappies a go! The ones I have are square-shaped towelling fabric. I have them in all sorts of bright funky colours too - bright red, orange, blue, purple, they're gorgeous. I don't really know much about the different kinds of cloth nappies though. Are the ones I have all-in-ones? And do you need to use liners with cloth?

edit: Do people really use bleach on nappies?!My goodness, wouldn't that burn young bottoms?! I never even use fabric softener on Aurelias' clothes because of the chance of skin irritation.

And thanks about the poem <333 That's only part of it, the rest I couldn't fit into my sig. Here's the complete poem;


Mother, Baby, Lover.
by Elizabeth Garratt

When in darkness
Behind closed lids I perceive
The blind, furled first
And the questing
Mouth, a hungry kiss
For the place where she alone exists -
I think with infinite compassion
Of all the breast -
Starved lovers of our world undressing
You to drink at this
Soft inverted cup of maternal bliss
In gratitude, and less
Than ignorance of what they miss.