Terri has spent the last twenty years in the accounting field working for a major newspaper company as well as assisting small businesses with their accounting needs. Terri is really a ‘soup to nuts’ kind of girl who loves to travel, read, write, decorate, renovate and generally enjoy life. She also has an ecommerce store selling unique baby diapers that she and her sister designed in 2007, called Ditti-do's.
From the moment your little one is born you splay their little fingers in yours, look into their young, innocent eyes and silently promise this sweet child you'll never let anything bad happen to him/her. There's nothing you wouldn't do for this little bundle of joy! And then the real world comes crashing down on you. Early morning and late night feedings, colic, late night rockings, dirty diapers, doctors appointments and the list goes on and on. Your life is busy and you're sure you'll never have another good nights sleep. And through all of this, you have to get up in the morning to drag your tired and aching body to work. How do you manage?
Of course, the first thing you do is go out and buy boxes of disposable diapers to help you along. You are programmed to believe disposables are the answer to all your baby's diapering needs. Why? Because the commercials on TV, radio and magazines tell you so. They show you happy babies with dry bottoms and smiling moms and dads. The commercials emphasize dryness and convenience throughout the night. You believe them because you feel they wouldn't say these things if they weren't true. And, of course, all of your friends use them, so what can be the harm? It pays to do your homework, because your baby's health and welfare depend on it. Remember the promise you made to your newborn?
There is plenty of written material on environmental issues that we, the public, are not taking seriously. Governments, along with our communities are imploring us to recycle our plastic materials. Communities offer blue boxes, retail outlets offer .99 re-usable cloth grocery bags, newspaper and printing companies are using environmentally safe inks such as vegetable ink to print their products and there are an exclusive number of communities who have completely outlawed the use of plastic bags in their stores. So how do we recycle dirty disposable diapers?
The answer is, we don't. Millions of disposable diapers are tossed into our landfills every year without any thought as to what they do to our environment. Disposables take hundreds of years to bio-degrade, not to mention the feces and urine that is absorbed into the earth, which carries the danger of contaminating our ground water. Cloth diapers can be used and re-used hundreds of times for more than one baby and bio-degradable diaper liners save on stains and can safely be flushed down the toilet.
Producing disposable diapers, for one baby, for one year, uses 50 pounds of petroleum, 20 pounds of chlorine and more than 300 hundred pounds of wood. And this is what you're putting on your baby's soft behind! We chop down millions of trees that provide us with the precious oxygen we need to survive, all in the name of convenience. Is this the legacy you want to leave your child?
Terri owns and operates a eco-friendly cloth diaper store called Ditti-do's Cloth Diapers. If you would like to visit her store, go to http://www.dittidoclothdiapers.com or for more info on cloth diapers you can email info@dittidoclothdiapers.com.