Friday, March 16, 2012

Cloth Diapers vs Disposable Diapers

Sometimes, it just helps to see the comparison.

Some disposable companies state that their diapers can last up to 12 hours. But, I can't imagine that would be very comfortable for a baby. Babies need to be changed more often than that.

Here are our minimum recommendations:
Up to 6 weeks - at least 12-14 diaper changes per day = 504-588 diapers
6 weeks - 6 months - at least 8-10 diaper changes per day = 1008-1260 diapers
6 months - 1 year - at least 6-8 diaper changes per day = 1176-1568 diapers.
After one year that equals 2688 - 3416 diaper changes.


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3 comments:

  1. What's even more startling is that most kids don't potty train until age 3. So you can multiply side one by three, and keep side two the same!

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  2. Being that my husband and I are total dorks, we kept a diaper tally until my daughter was toilet-trained in the day. We hit the 3,000 mark at 12.5 months of age, so I just wanted to leave that here in the comments to demonstrate what the diaper toll was for a run-of-the-mill family =) We cloth-diapered, so in that time we ran around 250 cycles of diaper laundry as well.

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  3. That is great information Sarah! Thanks for sharing!!

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