Who is us? A family with a 3 year old son who was cloth diapered until he potty-trained at 25 months and a two month-old baby girl in a small town in the Midwest.

Lots of Reasons.

And if you aren't on a budget -- you are doing it wrong. "It" being "life."

You can also add cloth diapers to your registry! At around $20 each, they make great gifts.

Not to mention all those freak outs -- OMG, we are out of diapers -- run to Wal-Mart at 2 am? I think not.

It's up to all of us to reduce waste.

Now that, is a happy baby. Less diaper rash, less skin irritation.

And, no yucky chemicals. You are so careful during pregnancy with what you eat, and you will be careful about what you feed your baby too. Why make them wear around a pad full of chemicals all day every day for the first two years of their life?

Toilet training is an important step on the way to increased competence, confidence, and sense of self.

Cloth diapers have a clear advantage over single-use diapers when it comes to toilet training. We believe that babies diapered with cloth tend to toilet train more quickly because they know when they are wet.

http://www.diapernet.org/whycloth.htm

The colors are super cute. When they stick out the top of pants, or out from beneath dresses, or just by themselves, they look 100x better than disposables.

Get out your pen and paper.

Lots of other people use these too:

http://www.younghouselove.com/2010/08/the-much-requested-cloth-diaper-post/

Keep it Local. Whenever possible.

There are girl colors too. Just not in the pic. There are also fun patterns.

But some people use less.

http://www.younghouselove.com/2010/08/the-much-requested-cloth-diaper-post/

We like these: http://www.cottonbabies.com/product_info.php?products_id=104

You put a large wet bag/pail liner inside of it. Like a cloth trash bag.

Looks like this: http://www.cottonbabies.com/product_info.php?products_id=1228.

We don't have one, and we've done just fine.

You need these. They also come in fun colors and patterns.

We especially like the one in the picture that have both a dry pocket and a "wet" (dirty pocket). You store all your clean diapers in that side pocket and then your dirty ones in the main pocket. All diapers in one place. Easy peasy.

How do you get them clean?

We didn't see see a real increase in our water bill.

There isn't a diaper "service" where we live. You don't need one.

Where else do you put things that are dirty? Things with mud? Things with vomit? Other dirty things? In the washer. Because it washes out.

There are lots of ways people wash cloth diapers. Generally, follow your manufacturer's instructions. If that fails, google "how to wash cloth diapers."

We usually do this overnight. They dry really quickly.

Then, you "stuff' the diapers. Place an insert in each of the covers. Diagram here: http://www.bumgenius.com/one-size.php.

We know you can.