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@lovemonkey The potty training is a really good point. I wonder about the cause there though. I just read a fantastic but really long article on parenting/childhood anxiety, and they mention potty training. It used to be that most kids were potty trained by 18 months but now it’s 3+. They cite...

@fortybrandon Environmentally, I’d bet that composting comes out on top. We have a municipal composted here but I haven’t been able to find any truly compostable single use diapers. And I’d bet those would cost a lot more, bringing the cost argument more in focus. Such a shame composting isn’t...

@jaysj84 It was great peace of mind when supply chains looked dicey absolutely!

@caleb23 Did your mom potty train at ~1 year?!

@caleb23 Agreed, if we can commit, a second kid really helps the economics. We want to have them close in age, so hopefully kid 1 is out of the diapers so we can use them on kid 2. Also helps that you can sell them and recoup some of that cost (1/3rd ish?). I wish we could line dry, it’s too...

@godlovesariel Oh interesting. There was one brand of scented disposables I had to get rid of unused because they stank so heavily, but otherwise we have an airtight ubi bin and I don’t notice the stench.

@loganf18 Agreed that image of the physical waste is very compelling. I walked by a display with the avg number of diapers a baby uses in a year and that is what pushed me to cloth in the first place. But carbon accounting is part of my job, so in a way I’m taught to ignore that image and also...

@dll827 No but I’ve been meaning to look into this. Any good resources you could point to?

@katrina2017 You’re so smart. I wish I had bought mine second hand. That would have taken care of the cost and environmental side of it. I was tempted by all the cute patterns and also used the logic of we’re going to have 3 kids so might as well get a new set.

@katrina2017 I hear ya, lots of talk about the dye, plastic; etc that goes into a disposable but if you’ve got a bunch of AIO or pockets (like I do) those have quite a lot of non-biodegradable processed plastics that go into making them. That’s really interesting about the EC, I need to look...

@dawnpawn 😂 I have family coming over today and I’m instructing them to smell the house And totally agreed. If you’re in a place with clean hydro power and you have an electric hot water tank, the impacts of washing and drying are negligible. Where I am, we’re on natural gas for hot water and...

@dawnpawn Thanks for such a well thought out reply! I’m so interested in the smell issues a few people have brought up. We went to a friends house and I was blown away by how stinky their house was due to diapers. We have an ubi for diapers and I’m currently under the impression that it...

@christseeker12 Love that! It adds up to a lot of you can keep the stash lean and use it for multiple kids 👌

@jd4christ Yes absolutely haha. I always think “ok she pooped already today...” and regret it.

@jd4christ You’re my hero - literally anything I do as a mom I think “moms of twins are superhero’s”. The sprayer is not my friend, mostly because our house is just not conducive to it. I’m trying to use grovia liners so I can just lift the poop off, but that has about a 50% effectiveness rate.

@markymatt Love your ramble. I’ve thought about that too. I picked brands that are Canadian (where I am) as much as possible (la petite ourse 😍) but their manufacturing still happens overseas. I avoided the amazon cheapies exactly for those reasons. On the other hand though, Kirkland diapers are...

@ttyler I mean, there are probably differences between the study and how each of us does cloth diapers, and I wish there was more discussion in it on how buying/selling impacted the equation. But it’s a very thorough comparison. Life cycle analysis is complex as there are so many bits to chase...

@jesseessej Love it lol. Own that fancy status 🤩

@adamc I really feel you on this. I think we’ll end up doing a hybrid using both too. There’s such pressure in parenting to overcommit to things (“Exclusively breast feeding”, “we are cloth diapering”, zero screen time, baby led weaning...). Like this is not a religion, it is literally cleaning...

@afmtv Love this. Good work mama!