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[ocelot]

I so wish we'd had these a year ago!

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I pretty much stopped trusting the word "flushable" when I was 14 and my brother-in-law came home from his work as a plumbing tech to tell me not to flush tampons because at least two of the toilet (or further down the line) problems he found every day showed great piles of tampons stopping the pipe. "They just float there," he said, and I blanched, and quit flushing tampons.) Now we have "cottonelle" flushable wipes at school, for poop accidents, and tried flushing those, and learned the hard way (kids like watching plumbers, by the way) that they're not flushable either.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it breaks up into small bits in the toilet, which tampons don't. Though I am a little suspicious of them saying not to leave it sitting in the toilet, or it would eventually absorb all the water. But even if it isn't flushable, it still seems like a lot less waste going into a landfill than with typical disposables.

[telemicus]

looks good, as long as they aren't extornionately priced, we'll definitely be going with the cheapest we can find diapers!

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Apparently the suggested cost for a starter set (2 covers, ten inserts) is $24.99. Similar covers for cloth diapers cost $7 - $10, but that's a big enough price range that it's hard to tell what the inserts will cost separately. I'd think they'd be less expensive since there's less material and they're simpler overall, but it's a small company, so they may not be able to give the best price. Or they may just be expensive because they'll be primarily sold at places where people willing to pay higher prices shop (Whole Foods is apparently going to sell them).

Do you have a washing machine? Cloth can be really cheap (though a bigger one-time expense) if you don't have to pay for each load of laundry.