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By Marie Stevens

Each parent has to come to a decision when their child is born whether to use disposable or reusable diapers. Both types of diaper have their own respective pros and cons. Apparently, recent information has implied that widely-held beliefs about the distinctions between the two types of diaper may be inaccurate or deceptive.

Having a child makes new parents decide on many different things. All of us speculate what's best for our children with regards to raising them. Am I going to breast feed or use a bottle? Should we let our baby sleep in a crib or bassinet? Is our baby going to wear cloth or disposable diapers?

Research has been carried out about the advantages of both the disposable diaper and cloth baby diapers for many years, and will probably continue for many more. Both diaper types have their pros and cons. Your first choice is to decide between cloth baby diapers or the disposable diaper. What it boils down to is a matter of personal preference. However, some issues to deliberate when deciding are comfort, fit, absorbency, ease of use and cost.

You don't need to fret about finding a washing machine when you apply disposable diapers and they can also be applied whereever and whenever. Also, once your childhas finished their business and requires changing, you can simply dispose of the dirty diaper, (after changing your baby needless to say), without being made to to walk around with it!

Alternatively, you might want to choose to diaper your child using just cloth diapers, with no covers. If so the costs are very similar. If you consider using a diaper service or home laundering, it can actually be cheaper to use cloth diapers. However, diapering your baby without using diaper covers is risky due to possible leaking. All disposable diapers in the shops today have respectable absorbency qualities, and all are able to carry more liquid than required during the time period that your baby will use one diaper. Compared to cloth baby diapers, disposables are drier to touch when wet, don't leak as much and fit better. There are common similarities among disposables, but they vary in shape, fit and absorbency between manufacturers.

However, there are several downsides to disposable diapers. The nature has taken its toll with the waste that is put in landfills; in the U.S. alone there are more than 20 billion diapers being disposed every year. Also manufacturing these diapers is not that environmentally responsible due to the plastics, papers and other chemicals being introduced to the once green earth. On top of that, disposable diapers also cause baby rash and some other kind of skin irritation from the harsh chemicals found and used in producing the diapers. The odor that these diapers will produce is worse than the ones produced from a cloth diaper. Finally, do not forget the cost of each of these baby diapers. For 1 week's supply of large packages, it costs a family between $15 and $30.

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