Did you know that a huge percentage of landfill is made up of disposable diapers? Tonnes of these tightly wrapped, poo and pee filled conveniences sit for decades, not really decomposing. Crazy stuff huh! That's one reason why we decided to primarily use cloth diapers.
Another reason to use cloth diapers is that in the end it is less expensive to use them. It's a bigger expense up front, but we purchased one size fits all diapers so we won't have to buy any more when K get's bigger. They're not really as much extra work as some people seem to think they are. Plus, our cloth diapers are pretty cute. We're using Bum Genius, I'd recommend them to anyone.
Disposable diapers are a relatively recent 'evil.' My generation's parents all seem to have used cloth diapers because there was no such thing as disposable. Everyone of them I've talked to seemed singularily unimpressed that we made the decision to go with cloth diapers (apparenlty this is normal for them). My mom used these squares of cloth folded up with a plastic diaper cover on my brothers and me when we were babies.
Of course, if we lived in an apartment building where we didn't have in suite laundry, I would probably make the decision to use disposable in spite of all the reasons not to. I am doing laundry constantly (maybe not constantly but it sure feels like it.) I wouldn't want to have to be toting an infant up and down a few floors of apartment stairs into a dingy laundry room, competing with 20 other people for the same 2 washers and dryers. Or hauling everything off to the nearest laundramat.
The Riverwalk is my favourate place to go for walks with K. Access to the Riverwalk is just across the street from our apartment. I can walk west towards the Legislative grounds and the park & fountain at one end. Or I can walk east to the Forks Market and past it to the Provencher Pedestrian bridge.
