Comments on: A diaper service for Pittsburgh

By: amy

amy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:48:23 +0000

Diaper Express, Vandergrift, PA 15690
i have a friend who used this service in Pittsburgh a few years ago- don’t know the price though…..

By: stacy

stacy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:53:09 +0000

Lets see, my own baby used between 6-8 diapers a day as a new born, and now at 19 months she still goes through 5 a day. I have heard a lot of wonderful things about cloth diapering though and wish we could do it, but with her being so close to potty training and no baby on the way, it wouldn't be worth it. (There isn't a service out here) I wish you all the luck in the world! Everyone i know who cloth diapers just loves it =Dstacy's last blog post..Discount Meat EVERYDAY

By: aldon @ orient lodge

aldon @ orient lodge — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:21:16 +0000

It is great to hear this. We used cloth diapers for all three of my daughters. A few things to keep in mind. If I recall properly, the younger the baby, the more diapers were needed. So, you might want to start off with 80 diapers but then after a few months, cut back to 60 or less.

By: BK

BK — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:25:37 +0000

Great discovery! Your discovery will definitely benefit those living in Pittsburgh. Don’t think we have that in Singapore (but then I did not search for it in the first place). People are using a lot of disposable diapers nowadays. For my sister, she was just glad that her 2 boys who are 2+ now are toilet trained. It certainly cut down a lot of expenses in disposable diapers and most importantly, a little step towards saving our planet.

By: Mrs. Accountability

Mrs. Accountability — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:40:41 +0000

Lost your blog in the hundreds out there, glad to have found you again! :-) I wanted to comment on your diaper dilemma. When my children were babies, I paid for diaper service. Now this was 20 years ago, but the cost was $50/month. I was a work out of the home momma back then and I just knew I’d be horrible at keeping up with washing the diapers myself, so I considered it a necessity. We used those diapers for everything! Wipe clothes, shoulder clothes, under the baby for overspills during the night (we family bedded), I mean just about anything and everything. I missed them when we finally canceled our service when the boys were both potty trained. I also believe that cloth diapers aided in earlier potty training. With the disposable diapers, the baby doesn’t feel the wetness that they do with cloth. Granted, I changed the diaper soon after they voided but there was still that “Ohhhh, I’m wet” feeling for baby. Plus I loved the feeling of that soft diaper next to my skin when I nursed my babies. Contrast that with sticky, crinkly plastic, ewwww. Now if you try to do your own I would really be hesitant about using the common washing machines – other people might not like that idea too much. Can you buy a small washer for in your home? I hope you can afford the diaper service though. OH, and one more thing – if you decide to do your own, check out http://www.frugalbabe.com. She just had a baby about six weeks ago and she and her mom made up a whole bunch of diapers very inexpensively by sewing their own.

By: Alissa

Alissa — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:45:17 +0000

How great for you! :) What an awesome solution. At least you know you have an alternative to the laundromat issue. :)

By: greenwithbaby

greenwithbaby — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:54:03 +0000

I just found your blog and plan to read further because, hey I could stand to save some money! But I wanted to comment on the cloth diapers vs. sposies issue you’re facing because I’m passionate about cloth diapers for babies’ bums! I would definitely go with cloth in whatever way you can manage! Yes, a diaper service or washing your own diapers might seem more expensive compared to the almost free disposables or the laundry costs, at first. However, you need to think of the whole diapering picture. What is the real cost of putting those disposable chemical trash diapers into the solid waste system? You will pay for it somewhere, be it your waste removal fees (maybe not you directly but as a community it costs us all BIG time) or in the additional chemicals needed to treat the waste, or in the natural resources needed to produce those diapers. Regarding the money you save per week on disposables at CVS–how does that compare to the price your baby will pay in the future when they’re left to deal with all that trash we’ve been burying? Another cost is the amount of diaper cream and trips to the doctors for the diaper rash? One more consideration is that on average babies who are cloth diapered the majority of time potty learn much earlier than those in the disposables…thereby shortening your use of diapers which will save you LOTS of money!

Good luck! Remember that diapering is a system and you don’t have to think of it as an all or nothing scenario. Reach out to others who use cloth I learned so much from just watching other mommas and talking to them about cloth. It is really quite fun! There is a learning curve to using cloth but I found as a new parent, there was huge learning curve to diapering in general! Best wishes! Now on to check out the rest of your posts!

By: tiffanie

tiffanie — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:51:21 +0000

this is awesome for you. i assume it will come in handy for those first few weeks when you’re adjusting to being a new mom & dad!

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:24:49 +0000

I'm really glad to know this is available (and I need to tell friends too!). I wonder if old-fashioned cloth diapering like this works as well as the newer cloth diapers I've seen out there (like the FuzziBunz and the BumGenius)? I may have to look around some more and see if there's a consensus on that.Erin's last blog post..Housing

By: Kacie

Kacie — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:32:40 +0000

Looks like you got a good deal!

I don’t think I’d want to pay $0.25 per diaper in the long haul, but I wouldn’t mind for a week or to so I could test it out, ya know?