Why don't more people use cloth diapers?

I use cloth diapers with a diapering service in my town. They pick up the dirty diapers and drop off cleans ones once a week... provide me with a hamper/liner/deodorizer,etc... it costs the same as conventional disposable diapers but is SO MUCH BETTER for baby and the environment. Just curious why more people don%26#039;t opt to use cloth?

Why don%26#039;t more people use cloth diapers?
While most communities DO offer diaper service, most people aren%26#039;t aware of it.





People have this idea in their heads of what cloth diapers are: Big, wet, bulky things held in place with pins and covered with plastic pants that leave ugly marks on the baby%26#039;s legs.





Even when I was using diaper service diapers (instead of some of the fabulous all-in-ones now available), I never used pins. When my son %26amp; I had diarhea, I used Snappis to prevent leakage around the leg, but otherwise we did fine with a comfortable cloth waterproof cover.





When I had a sitter, and showed him how to change the diapers, he was a little aprehensive... but then commented, %26quot;Hey, that%26#039;s as easy as disposables!%26quot;








Also, folks mostly think cloth leaks more that disposables. They see the %26quot;blow-out poops%26quot; they get with Huggies or Pampers, and think it must be worse with cloth, not realizing that it %26quot;sticks%26quot; to the cloth, and never shoots up the back (or out the side of the legs).
Reply:Most areas don%26#039;t offer that kind of service for mothers. Many people don%26#039;t have the time or patience to wash the diapers every day.
Reply:the price, they%26#039;re harder to use, they don%26#039;t absorb asmuch, they give your baby a rash, and there is leakage at night time,





plus you gotta save the dirty ones for a Week , If i saved them in the house they%26#039;d putrify the house no matter how tight the container,





and outside the animals would get to it,





PS


I have a dog, and she would try to eat the poop right out of em.
Reply:a) we don%26#039;t have a service like that in our area


b) our daughter is in daycare and they don%26#039;t do cloth diapers





I wish it were an option for us but we%26#039;re not in the position to do it.
Reply:Because disposable ones are more sanitary.
Reply:I think you%26#039;ve gotten your answer already. Because people have preconceived notions about cloth diapers and they are too close minded to reconsider. They believe the myths and old wives tales that they%26#039;ve heard and they don%26#039;t realize that using cloth diapers today isn%26#039;t like it was when their mothers or grandmothers diapered their babies. Which is pretty close minded as well. There have been so many advancements in every facet of living that it is silly to think that cloth diapers haven%26#039;t changed! Today%26#039;s cloth diapers don%26#039;t have to be pinned (some cloth diapers don%26#039;t even have to be covered!), rinsed or soaked. And they don%26#039;t stink as much as disposables do!





Also, many have been brainwashed into believing that cloth diapers have the same environmental impact as disposables do, which is not even remotely close to being true, but it helps them sleep better at night.





%26quot;I think it’s interesting that disposable diaper lovers (including the companies that make them) can make quite a fuss about the water used to wash cloth diapers. Nobody seems to get up in arms about the amount of water used to wash and sanitize bottles if parents feed their babies formula – or pumped breastmilk for that matter. In the event that a baby’s parents find the time for a 5 minute shower each day, they will each use over 27,000 gallons of water to keep themselves clean for that 2 1/2 year period of diapering their baby – that’s almost 60,000 gallons for two adults. But 20,000 gallons to wash their baby’s diapers is supposed to be an environmental problem?





If disposable diaper users really think it’s a better choice to pollute landfills with long-lasting, bacteria-laden trash, rather than use water to wash and flush our children’s waste, then shouldn’t all of us adults quit taking showers, wear disposable diapers – and probably disposable clothing altogether - and quit flushing our waste down the toilet? That hardly makes sense. We have wise, environmentally safe and inexpensive ways to treat our sewage water (remember, it only costs about $17.00 for the TOTAL water of laundering one child’s diapers for 2 1/2 years!). Further, water is a naturally renewing resource – remember the “water cycle” diagrams we all came to know and love in our 5th grade science courses?%26quot;





From %26#039;The Diaper Dilemma: The Environmental Cost of Diapers


Weighing the environmental costs of disposables versus cloth diapers.%26#039;


by Susan Crawford Beil
Reply:Because it%26#039;s a personal choice and whilst you want to use them, others don%26#039;t.
Reply:Despite thoughts about it being better for the environment it is not. It does same effects as disposables. The soaps,water,electricity, and waste have same effects. I am not knocking cloth but it is not truly any better. We are having our 4th child and i have researched it well many times.
Reply:I guess they don%26#039;t want to clean them,but I had cloth diapers as a young%26#039;n
Reply:I use them but I wash my own. I love them and they are so much better for our planet too.
Reply:less time you have to do cleaning the, why clean when u can throw away.
Reply:I have read that environmentally it%26#039;s a wash. Disposable diapers take up landfill space and are chlorinated. Cloth ones use energy to wash and leave behind soap residue (gray water) in the lakes and oceans.


I wanted to use cloth diapers but my daycare center wouldn%26#039;t allow it (most won%26#039;t).
Reply:Because they%26#039;re lazy.
Reply:They are harder to clean because with regular diapers you can just throw it out and with clothe diapers you have to clean and wash them.



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