How to save money on baby diapers
ian tham
I think one of the most wasteful expenditure in taking care of baby is the pampers.
A baby typically needs to change many times in a day because of urinating or passing motion.
This is one of the heaviest expenditure in taking care of baby. Here are some of my suggestions to minimize expenditure in this area.
You can always choose cheaper brands but be beware they may not hold the waste so well and lead to nappy rash.
Alternatively, you can use cloth diaper which was in use way before disposable diapers were introduced to parents.
Cloth diaper can be used over and over again. So you save on the cost of buying new disposable diapers.
However, you are burdened with more work of washing the cloth diaper. You have to incur water and electricity charges to wash it and sanitize it.
Disposable diapers are hygienic, clean, quick and convenient.
However, disposable diapers generate lots of waste material and trash. If they are incinerated they will also generate pollution and or more land is converted for use as landfill. They consume resources such as wood, chemicals and oil base material. We need to stay green and consume as little as possible .
What I did to minimize cost is to buy two different types of disposable diapers. The cheap ones and the more expensive ones. The cheap ones tend to tear easily or fall off the child's bottom. I will let my child wear the cheap ones during the day. During the night the child wears the better quality diaper which can absorb a higher capacity of urine and doesn't come off so easily.
Using this strategy , you save money by buying cheaper diapers.
Here are other suggestions. Observe the behavior of your child closely . Recognize the signs when he is about to urine or defecate . If the toddler is old enough to understand and communicate with you , you can always teach him to tell you if he needs to urine or pass motion. In that way , the disposable diapers will not be soiled.
You can be proactive and teach the baby to urine or pass motion in the potty in schedule times like after meals or before baths .
Also look out for disposable diapers that can be refastened so that they can be used again. You can take off the diaper for their bath time and put it on again after a bath.
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