Modern cloth nappies may seem expensive to start off but consider this:
- A newborn will have an average of 6500 nappy changes from birth to toilet training ($3250)
- From 6 months, baby still has about 5000 more nappy changes to go ($2500)
- From 12 months, baby still has about 3800 more nappy changes to go ($1900)
- From 18 months, baby still has about 2500 more nappy changes to go ($1250)
- From 24 months, baby still has about 1200 more nappy changes to go ($600)
Also if you look after your nappies it is likely that you can reuse them on your next baby!
Cloth nappies have evolved a lot from the old terry towelling flats. No folding or pinning required.
No need to soak them either... you just need to dry pail them (ie put them in a bucket with a lid, no water or chemicals) and they can be dry pailed for up to 2 days.
On average using cloth full time means an extra 3 loads of washing a week.
One disposable nappy takes hundreds of years to break down.
On average in Australia and New Zealand alone 3.75 million nappies are dumped EACH DAY.
