Instructions

A Video from Bummis on how to fold cloth Diapers.

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Folding Diapers is as easy as 1..2..3.

This is your Pre-folded Diaper
Dotted lines indicate thick centre panel and flaps
A Good for Girls		A. Good for Boys
	OR
Fold down top third of diaper. For new born, fold down top half shortening fold as your baby grows		Fold up top third of diaper. For new born, fold up top half shortening fold as your baby grows
Fold left side panel over thick centre panel
Fold right side panel over, tucking it under the first folded side panel. This locks the sections together for a better fit and a neater look.
....or....b
Fold down top third of diaper. For new born, fold down top half shortening fold as your baby grows	Fold up top third of diaper. For new born, fold up top half shortening fold as your baby grows
Fold in left side (and right side at same angle for new borns, less for larger babies. Place baby on the diaper with the wide top section centred at the baby's back waistline.
....or....c
Fold in left side panel to the middle of centre panel. Fold in more for newborns, less for larger babies.
Fold in right side panel over thick centre panel. Fold in more for newborns, ess for larger babies.
Place baby in diaper with the top edge centred at the baby's back waistline

Facts

WHY you should choose cloth diapers for your baby

When my children were young disposable diapers were a “new fangled” thing. Not easily attainable especially if you lived way out in the boonies as I did with my first child. With my second and third they were becoming more acceptable especially for the working mom. We all knew how they were making our lives a little easier and most of us didn’t give the environmental consequences much thought. I continued to use cloth mainly, but admit to succumbing to the lure of them during the last year my youngest was in diapers.
As I have grown older and I hope “wiser” I see as others do the terrible injustice we have done our wonderful earth with the use of the disposable diaper.

I have learned the following:

1. 90% of babies in North America use disposables
2. 1 billion trees go into diaper production each year
3. In Canada alone, diaper production consumes 65,500 tonnes of pulp 8,800 tonnes of plastic and 9,800 tonnes of packaging material
4. Each baby will use 6000 to 8000 diapers, creating 2.5 tonnes of waste.
5. We throw away 1.7 billion diapers a year. 2.5% of all residential waste.
6. Once in landfills, diapers become extremely toxic.
7. Disposables can take over 500 years to decompose, if at all.
8. Disposables contain Dioxin which is an extremely toxic by-product of the paper-bleaching process and is a carcinogenic chemical.
9. Tributyl-tin, a toxic pollutant known to cause hormonal problems in humans and animals.
10. Sodium polyacrylate a type of super absorbent polymer, which becomes a gel-like substance when wet. A similar substance was banned when it was linked to increased risk of toxic shock syndrome
11. The Archives of Disease in Childhood published research in May 2000 showing that prolonged use of disposable diapers will contribute to low sperm count in males by increasing scrotal temperatures while infants.
12. Cloth diapers have much less and impact on the environment.

Once their life as a diaper is done, they become rags and after that will decompose in landfills after 6 months.
Water needed to wash a load of diapers is comparable to the amount of 5 toilet flushes a day.

So after all these facts ask your self this, “Do I really want to subject my child and the future of the planet he/she will inherit to all of the above?”

Other benefits of Cloth Diapers:
Your child will train up to 6 months earlier than babies wearing disposables, since your child will be able to tell you sooner when he/she is feeling uncomfortable and is in need of changing.
Your child’s skin will experience rashes less.
Your costs are far less using a diaper service than buying disposables.
The average cost of diapering a baby in disposables from birth to training is approximately $4,295, not including the cost of waste disposal or gas to go and get diapers etc.
With our diaper service the average cost to diaper your baby until 30 months of age will be approximately $3400.00 or less. That is a savings of almost $1000.00 dollars.