Cloth Diapers

So more about baby butts...
This is a topic particularly important to my life since I have been reduced to trying to contain my son's inability to control his bowel/bladder/saliva/reflux.

But of concern here is diapers.
What should one do when it comes to diapers? This is a big decision and I am not going to get into all the details but here are three articles that I feel give a balanced view of the issue (I found articles that were sponsored by the disposable diaper industry...not quite balanced.)

http://www.mswmanagement.com/mw_0209_beyond.html
http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=554
http://www.babyloveproducts.com/data/environmentalconsid.html

Here is how we do it to try to minimize our impact: We do cloth diapers all day. They are cotton-based, but I may look into getting hemp-based diapers. We end up washing our diapers every 3 days or so. They do not require a hot wash, we use the warm cycle and we use Charlie's Soap which has a low environmental impact. They all come out looking great. We have a clothes line in the back to get them bleached by the sun, otherwise we will dry them on the rack in the basement. Occasionally, we will need to dry them in the dryer.

There are clear environmental issues with both disposable and cloth but I feel the better of the two is cloth.
OH! by the way, Cloth is sooooooooooooo much cheaper!

I have seen analysis that says you will end of spending around $2500 for 30 months of disposable diapers. If you do cloth, you can end up spending around $700-1000 for 30 months of diapering. Whoa. Cloth diapering services will also end up being cheaper than disposable.

I think that we will end up spending probably around 1000-1200 on cloth for our son, however, most all of the diapers that we have will be able to be used again for the next kid. So for each child we are spending around $600.

Here is the website of the diaper company we use. They are great for questions and their prices are very comparable to other websites.
www.babycottonbottoms.com