Poll: What was the main reason you decided to use cloth nappies instead of disposable?

[JoshandJamie]

• cost
• environment
• comfort
• health
• other (please say what it was)

Thank you

Cost and comfort for my kids

sorry, not very eco friendy but the truth

-environment (most important)
-other - smug self-satisfaction
-cost
-health
-comfort

Environment (as I studied env.sci at uni the guilt of using disposables was too much!!!). Cost and health were other factors as well as knowing I aways had a stock of nappies in and didn't keep wondering if I had to go the shops and stock up!

chemicals against DSs skin
Environment
My mum nagging me

Environment
Cost
No chemicals near baby's delicate bits
SO much nicer and cuter than disposables.

1. Cost and environment in equal measure
2. comfort
3. Never run out of bloody nappies!

$. They look so cute running round with a huge bloth nappy on!

cost, the environment, loved the look of them, seemed kinder on their bums, because my mom laughed at the idea so i stubbornly did it anyway

Forgot to say I'm a lazy cow and got fed up taking Sh*y nappies to the outside bin in the rain - couldn't stand having them in the kitchen bin (well not the poo ones!!)

Nr 1 reason for dh agreeing to fork out the cost of them was environment.
For me was no more stinky and, lately, overflowing (now we have 2 in nappies) bins needing emptying every day - especially in this weather.
Also couldn't find a disposable that didn't give ds2 horrible rashes around his legs.
Cost issue also great - will pay them off in 6 months - even if it's meant short-term pain.

Had visions that reusables were hard work and not as absorbant as disposables. Find them really easy actually - you just need a system for getting them washed and have found them more reliable than disposables in terms of leaks.

My mum and mil, though, are horrified at our decision.

I have just changed to cloth nappies (bumbles) after a trial period.

Main reasons = cost, comfort, more reliable at containing whatever my ds produces (we had been through lots of different disposables and I got sick of having to change his clothes several times a day due to bf poo explosions. Now we are weaning it is not such an issue though.

Also I think there is just something lovely about wrapping ds's bum in soft terry and fleece. DH reckons it's my hormones .

Cost was the main one. Environment comes a close second. I reckon I have saved a king's ransom!

Do any of you clothers work full time, have two in nappies, a pretty useless tumble dryer, no drying space indoors or airing cupboard?

not contributing to landfill
and they look cute

Money

No, hunkermunker.
And we didn't say that anyone who did should be using cloth, either.

Wasn't implying you'd said that - I was just interested.

Well I was working ft for DS's nappies, but xp was at home nominally doing the housework.

There was no hanging space, but we had a fab tumbledryer.

For DD, I worked ft most of the time, but had au-pair. I did the washing though. But tbh I find washing nappies easier than any other laundry - you don't have to sort it by colour, fabric etc., you just empty the bucket out and bung the nappies in. Easy. I do have hanging space though (one of those over the bath hangers)

What d'you mean by crap tumbledryer? A condensor? I had one of those, and never again. I now have a proper vented one and it takes about a third of the time

It's a washer-dryer, so yes, a condensor. And if it's drying, it can't be washing.

Whereas I can sit at home all day, and still not get round to putting a load in the machine.

i know my daytime telly though

LOL PT - so do I - that's what I watch at work

For professional reasons, you understand