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Below are some Myths and Facts

It's to much extra work.

It may seem like it, but we disagree. Instead of throwing a soiled diaper into the trash you throw it into a pail. The additional washing is minimal - I would wager that an average person spends less then a half an hour a week washing diapers.

The extra time investment as opposed to grabbing a box of disposables while out shopping and tossing it away when you're done with it.

I wholeheartedly disagree. How convenient is it to run out of disposable diapers and have to run to the store in the middle of the night?

Once they are wet they are wet. Nothing to keep the baby from getting diaper rash from WET!

LolliDooâ„¢ diapers wick moisture away from baby's skin. While they will be wet at the time of urine output, it will soak down to the middle of the diaper leaving baby's skin barely damp if anything.

My kids always poop right out of them, because they leak.

The only reason that your LolliDooâ„¢ diaper will leak is due to improper sizing. Since our eco-fleeceâ„¢ is super-stretchy you can pull it snug. Make sure the elastic cinch sizing is as small as possible for your baby's size. We will have a video tutorial on www.lollidoo.com very shortly.

This is great. Even though I don't have kids, I've read a lot about cloth diapering because I use reusable cloth pads and I think babies should be comfy just like I am. Diapers are the #3 thing thrown in landfills, and I think using cloth diapers and pads are actually really simple things to do to reduce our own waste. Thanks for sharing with us, Alison. It would be great if all these recent posts encourage others to take a closer look at cloth vs disposable. If I ever have kids, I hope to cloth diaper them, just hope I don't have to use daycare!

Cloth pads are just as vital to our physical and enviornmental health. That is another topic that gets largely neglected. I'm happy that you are using cloth pads - I can't use anything else after making the switch.

Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals on the planet and literally a tablespoon [of it] would kill everyone on the planet," she said. "It's so deadly." Jill Wood, an instructor in Penn State's women's studies department who received her master's degree studying menstruation and menstrual health, said she does not use tampons as a precaution for her health and safety.

G-diapers are very 'green' diapers and very easy to use. I used these with my first son and hope to use them on my second. My husband, however, is not too keen on them, but I think that's because he can't separate himself from the myth that putting them in the laundry is dirty. :)