Please Sign This Petition...
Using A Cloth Nappy?
Change it as soon as your baby is wet. They don't keep babies skin dry and the germs and dampness can mean skin irritation, or even infection.
With the negative, and significant, impact that disposables have on the environment and our land fills, we want to encourage people to consider using cloth nappies, not scare monger them away from the idea.
Using cloth nappies actually REDUCES the chance of nappy rash, as they doesn't have the chemicals that disposables use, they are ONLY CLOTH. And why pay so much money for something to feel 'soft like cloth' when you can use actual cloth, protect your little one's precious skin, save yourself a small fortune (not to mention the environment) and you can do so with the cutest fabrics, most absorbent designs and never worry about those horrid blow outs again.
Please sign this petition. It is every parent's right to choose cloth or disposables, and they should be given the respect of correct information to make that choice.
#MakeClothMainstream #BeHonestPampers #HonestlyInformedDecision
@eventualmother I #carewithcloth for @operationsmile
I made my donation last week.
Who do you #carewithcloth for?
- Make a donation to you favourite charity and share with a fluff stash pic.
- Tag us so we can feature it on the website and bring some more awareness to your favourite causes.
- Tag and nominate some fluff friends to keep it going
Thank you :)
As #CleftAware week draws to a close, having read the beautifully touching stories from Elizabeth and Jessica, I'm left awestruck and inspired.
The strength and uncertainty of these amazing kids and the unwavering support of their families is magnificent and made me wonder what I could do.
Operation Smile are an international organisation who travel to less privileged countries to provide cleft lip and palate operations to children who wouldn't otherwise have access.
This is such a worthy cause and I want to do my bit.
I've made my donation (you can see the acknowledgement of such in the photo above) and would like to start a new hashtag to implore you all to do the same #CareWithCloth
A friend of mine approached me this week saying that we should GO VIRAL with fluff stash photos.
A great idea and way of promoting the use of reusable nappies...with a potential to raise money for an amazing charity.
I'm asking all you 'Fluffy Mums' to share a photo of your cloth nappy/diaper stash and make a donation to charity. It can be any charity that is important to you (though I'd love if you would consider Operation Smile).
Tag @EventualMother and use #CareWithCloth so we can see who's taken part and learn about your charity.
We'll share your pics and charity info on our site and/or social media to bring attention to your causes as well as indulging in our fluff addiction.
What could be better?
Will you #CareWithCloth ?
I hope so :)
*help is go viral by sharing, liking and taking part*
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- Approximately 8 million disposable nappies are thrown away each day...in UK alone
- This is around 3% of household waste
- It can take hundreds of years for one disposable nappy to decompose
Let that sink in for a minute.
...and now let me tell you about cloth nappies.
We started using cloth nappies on Harrison when he turned 3 weeks old. I decided I wanted to, not for any environmental reasons, to be honest, but because I thought they were cute and an awful lot cheaper than disposables.
After getting through the first 3 weeks (which were quite hard going, with Harrison being in hospital with some health issues and me still being in a wheelchair), we were ready to test the waters.
(I'm sure you'll agree that he looks pretty adorable with some fluff on his bum!)
We fared well with a good fit & no leaks and were comfortable continuing the experiment. I hoped I'd become one of those women who became addicted to fluff and would be able to transition to full time, but was happy to combine, if not, and was finding disposables to be reliable and easy for when I wasn't using cloth.
Initially, we used cloth only when in the house during the day, sticking to disposables when heading out and at night, but, as time has gone on, we've increased our usage (and our love) of reusable nappies.
In terms of reliability, cloth and disposable started on very even playing fields, but, as time went on, we started to experience more and more blowouts from disposables (I am still yet to have a blow out from cloth)
Score 1 for fluff!
...and then there was the smell! We'd put Harrison in a disposable before bed and, by morning, the disposables we had put in the bin overnight smelled horrendous - we were rushing out of the bedroom in the morning to escape the smell and get these things the hell out of the house.
Just a few hours in a bin, disposables were unbearable to us, where soiled cloth nappies could be in a bin for up to 3 days without so much as a whiff.
Score 2 for fluff!
It seems that once you notice a negative with disposables, it makes way for complete disillusion with the blasted things and, now, neither my husband or I can stand them and each day brings us another reason to love reusable nappies.
Now, we are comfortably full time fluff and love it.
I'm officially one of those addicted women and the recent #RealNappyWeek has all but bankrupted me, but I now have a whole host of different brands of reusable nappies and, from it, an awful lot of review fodder.
In the coming weeks, I'll be reviewing the following nappies:
Close Parent Pop Ins (V1 and V2)
Milovia (pockets and covers)
Charlie Banana (pockets)
Ella Bella Bum (pockets)
Little Bloom (pockets)
...And any others that may find their way in to the house ;)
Our First Fluff
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- Approximately 8 million disposable nappies are thrown away each day...in UK alone
- This is around 3% of household waste
- It can take hundreds of years for one disposable nappy to decompose
Let that sink in for a minute.
...and now let me tell you about cloth nappies.
We started using cloth nappies on Harrison when he turned 3 weeks old. I decided I wanted to, not for any environmental reasons, to be honest, but because I thought they were cute and an awful lot cheaper than disposables.
After getting through the first 3 weeks (which were quite hard going, with Harrison being in hospital with some health issues and me still being in a wheelchair), we were ready to test the waters.
(I'm sure you'll agree that he looks pretty adorable with some fluff on his bum!)
We fared well with a good fit & no leaks and were comfortable continuing the experiment. I hoped I'd become one of those women who became addicted to fluff and would be able to transition to full time, but was happy to combine, if not, and was finding disposables to be reliable and easy for when I wasn't using cloth.
Initially, we used cloth only when in the house during the day, sticking to disposables when heading out and at night, but, as time has gone on, we've increased our usage (and our love) of reusable nappies.
In terms of reliability, cloth and disposable started on very even playing fields, but, as time went on, we started to experience more and more blowouts from disposables (I am still yet to have a blow out from cloth)
Score 1 for fluff!
...and then there was the smell! We'd put Harrison in a disposable before bed and, by morning, the disposables we had put in the bin overnight smelled horrendous - we were rushing out of the bedroom in the morning to escape the smell and get these things the hell out of the house.
Just a few hours in a bin, disposables were unbearable to us, where soiled cloth nappies could be in a bin for up to 3 days without so much as a whiff.
Score 2 for fluff!
It seems that once you notice a negative with disposables, it makes way for complete disillusion with the blasted things and, now, neither my husband or I can stand them and each day brings us another reason to love reusable nappies.
Now, we are comfortably full time fluff and love it.
I'm officially one of those addicted women and the recent #RealNappyWeek has all but bankrupted me, but I now have a whole host of different brands of reusable nappies and, from it, an awful lot of review fodder.
In the coming weeks, I'll be reviewing the following nappies:
Close Parent Pop Ins (V1 and V2)
Milovia (pockets and covers)
Charlie Banana (pockets)
Ella Bella Bum (pockets)
Little Bloom (pockets)
...And any others that may find their way in to the house ;)