Canadian town offers cash incentives to NOT use disposable diapers!

Here in the U.S. we need to follow the lead of Vaudreuil-Dorion, an off-island town offering cash incentives to families willing to buy non-disposable diapers! And if you think people can't be bribed to consider cloth diapers, think again! In March, $10,000 in municipal funds were allocated as part of a trial family to get up to 1,000 families to make the switch. While there are 31 Montérégie towns with similar programs, this particular trial program is only opened to Vaudreuil-Dorion … [Read more...]

Giving the Banana Bottom Line on Cloth Diapers

Monday, January 4, 2010, Vincenzo Ravina of TheChronicleHerald.ca Metro introduced his readers to Kristen Bassett, owner of Banana Bottoms, a home-grown cloth diaper business. In his article, Mom gets to bottom of diaper debate, he calls Bassett a "one-woman assembly line." "Ms. Bassett said she started making the cloth diapers almost 12 years ago, but she's only made a business of them in the past few years." Sewing "cute and fashionable" cloth diapers at home is not as easy as it … [Read more...]

Swim Diapers – What is their purpose?

It's that time again! Time to hose off the kiddie pools and come back to the outside world! Summertime is my favorite season. I just love homemade freezer pops, the smell of sunblock and of course, a cute little tushie in a swim diaper! There is a lot of confusion about the purpose of swim diapers. Some people believe a swim diaper should be absorbent and keep pee from entering into communal water, but neither disposable swim diapers or cloth swim diapers are designed for … [Read more...]