Comments on: Mommy-Muse.com™ Favorites: Eco-Friendly Mom and Baby Care http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/2008/09/mommy-musecom%e2%84%a2-favorites-eco-friendly-mom-and-baby-care-2/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mommy-musecom%25e2%2584%25a2-favorites-eco-friendly-mom-and-baby-care-2 The Official Mommy-Muse.com Blog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:44:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Weston http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/2008/09/mommy-musecom%e2%84%a2-favorites-eco-friendly-mom-and-baby-care-2/comment-page-1/#comment-724 Weston Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:29:55 +0000 http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/?p=38#comment-724 For my wife and I, we just don't see any point in buying things for our baby unless we absolutely have too. I mean, there are so many people out there getting rid of baby stuff and parent gear that we have hardly had to buy anything. I can think of two toys out of three big bins of toys that we actually bought our child. And clothes! There we have purchased a few more things on our own, but we've had handed down tons of clothes. My question is where the 'disposable vs. cloth' diaper debate stands now. We've been going the cheap route buying disposables at Target for about $.15 each. The G-Diaper is over twice that and seems complicated. Cloth uses a lot of water so that's not good either from what I hear. My biggest question is: What are those water absorbing granules in the disposable diapers and are they healthy for our babies? For my wife and I, we just don’t see any point in buying things for our baby unless we absolutely have too. I mean, there are so many people out there getting rid of baby stuff and parent gear that we have hardly had to buy anything. I can think of two toys out of three big bins of toys that we actually bought our child. And clothes! There we have purchased a few more things on our own, but we’ve had handed down tons of clothes.

My question is where the ‘disposable vs. cloth’ diaper debate stands now. We’ve been going the cheap route buying disposables at Target for about $.15 each. The G-Diaper is over twice that and seems complicated. Cloth uses a lot of water so that’s not good either from what I hear. My biggest question is: What are those water absorbing granules in the disposable diapers and are they healthy for our babies?

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