Why Cloth Diapers?

This is what the chemical dioxin is capable of overnight.  Remember Viktor Yushchenko, Russian presidental candidate who given dioxin in his food as poison and was found to be over 1000 times the normal amount in his body?  Your baby would have to ingest a lot of disposables to  have something as serious as what happened to Yushchenko, but this incident brings to light just how dangerous some chemicals in disposables are.

Better for your baby and the enviroment, a heaps lot cheaper, and with Swaddlebees andle Beeeee - it's just as easy as dispoables!  Your baby will need about 6, 000 diaper changes during the first 2 1/2 years...if you had to spend that long in diapers, what would your rather wear?  Scratchy paper and plastic or cloth?  Other advantages of cloth diapers are:

* No chemicals.  Sodium Polyacrylate, the super-

  absorbent gel in disposables (which oftentimes ends

  up directly on baby's bottom), has been linked to

  toxic shock syndrome, allergic reactions, and is

  leathal to cats if inhaled.  Death in humans has

  occured with just 5 grams of ingested gel.

* Another chemical, Dioxin, is a byproduct of

  bleaching a disposable to a white color.  Dioxin is

  the most toxic of all cancer causing chemicals. 

  Dioxin causes liver damage, immune suppression, 

  and genetic damage in lab animals.

* Problems with disposables that have been reported

  to the FDA are: damage to the central nervous

  system, kidneys, and liver, headaches, dizziness,

  and rashes.

* According to the Journal of Pediatrics, 54% of 1

  month old babies using disposables had rashes, and

  16% of those had severe rashes.  Widespread diaper

  rash is a fairly new phenomenon.

* Problems reported to the Consumer Protection

  Agency include: chemical burns, noxious odors,

  babies pulling diapers apart and putting pieces in

  their nose and mouth, choking, plastic melting onto

  skin, and skin ink staining.

* Eliminate landfill and ground water contamination. 

  5 million tons of, or 18 billion disposables, go to

  landfills yearly.

* It takes 3.4 billion gallons of oil and over 250,000

  trees a year to manufature disposables.