Children who are cloth diapered tend to potty train around 1 year earlier than children in disposable diapers.  Early potty training is better for everyone: your child experiences increased independence and self confidence, you save time and money by not changing diapers for that extra year, and the waste associated with diapering is cut by one third.

3) Avoid Diaper Rash

In 1955 virtually every baby in the United States was diapered using cloth diapers, and only 7% of babies in diapers had diaper rash.  By 1991, 90% of babies were in disposable diapers, and 78% had diaper rash.  Critics of disposable diapers say that the dramatic increase in diaper rash can be linked to the corresponding growth in the use of disposable diapers.  The argument is convincing given the following features of disposable diapers:

Most disposable diapers are plastic and do not allow air to circulate.  This traps in the ammonia.  The plastic also retains body heat, which causes babies to have a higher temperature around their bums, aggravating rashes.

Parents who use disposables can testify to the beads of clear gel (it's called SAP for Super Absorbent Polymer), used to absorb liquids, that you find on your child's genitals.  Yuck.  Allergy or sensitivity to these chemicals can cause irritation.

Babies wearing disposables are often changed less frequently because the wicking gel makes the diaper 'feel dry' when in fact the baby has wet the diaper.  This causes the baby to be left in prolonged contact with the ammonia of his urine, which can upset the skin's natural pH balance and lead to rash.

4) It's Easy

We spend a lot of time changing diapers, so we want our diapers to be quick and easy to use.  If you use bundle, cloth diapering is not messy, stinky, or time consuming.  Here's why:

No rinsing or soaking: with bundle simply toss the soiled diaper into the diaper pail, and we take care of the rest.  Once baby is on solid foods just shake the soilds into the toilet.Instead of lugging big packages of diapers home from the grocery store every week, bundle will deliver a package of beautifully laundered and folded diapers to your doorstep, with a personalized tag just for your baby.  If you need anothing else delivered - like wipes, biodegradable disposables, or laundry soap - just give us a call.  

Likewise, you do not have to deal with the environmental cost, inconvenience, or guilt of disposing of the mounds of throwaway diapers you would otherwise create.

Bundle is the exclusive Colorado source for biodegradable disposable diapers.  We will deliver these supplies to your doorstep, along with anything else from our shop.  Let us do the schlepping; your arms are full!

5) Environmental Benfits

Cloth diapers come out far ahead of disposables in two main ways: landfilled waste and material resources.

Waste: Disposable diapers generate 3.7 million tons of landfilled waste in the U.S. each year, representing 1.5% of the entire municipal waste stream, and each diaper can take up to 500 years to biodegrade.  Our cotton diapers are used until we can't use them any longer, then sold as rags to car washes, garages, etc.

Resources: According to a 2005 Life Cycle Analysis study by the British Environmental Agency, in 2.5 years of use a child using disposables will go through approximately 4,000 diapers. A child clad exclusively in cotton reusable diapers will use approximately 50 diapers. While the only input to those 50 cotton diapers is cotton, the 4,000 disposable diapers require 426 kg of tree-based fluff pulp, 310 kg of SAP (Super Absorbent Polymer), 260 kg of polypropylene and polyethylene (petroleum-based plastics), 31 kg of adhesives, and a host of other materials.