Cloth Diapers are Back "In"

It was a subject of much discussion when my wife was pregnant: what was greener? Cloth diapers or disposables? It's not so cut and dried as you might think, considering washing diapers, etc. But when it came right down to it, convenience won out, and we went with disposables. But many are switching to cloth, in an attempt to save money in this recession.

When you do the math, and figure that a baby might go through 6,000 - 10,000 disposable diapers, that's a lot of cash. Let's say $0.35 a diaper, at 6K, that's $2,100.

Meanwhile, most of the advice I've read about cloth diapers says you should have a stash of one or two dozen, that's a considerable savings in money.

And the new reusable cloth diapers aren't simply pieces of cloth you have to fold in some arcane way and use a safety pin to close. Nope, companies like BumGenius have sprung up, with all-in-one reusable diapers that remind me more of Pampers than anything else (except for the non-disposableness).

And that is the one drawback: dealing with washing them. Yep, you'll have to deal with the yuck factor a lot more than with disposables. But in this recession, isn't it all worth it?

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