Lulu in the Fluff Giveaway Ends 7/1

Shannon at Coupon Mommy of 3 has paired up with Lulu's in the Fluff to give readers a chance to win a bag of 45/90 Lulu's in the Fluff laundry detergent!

You'll need to follow Shannon publicly, join the Lulu's in the fluff facebook group, and visit Lulu's in the Fluff and comment on Shannon's blog letting her know which scent you'd get if you won!

That's just the mandatory entry! She has lots of other ways to gain additional entries!!

Good luck!!

Bella Bottoms Giveaway Ends 6/30

Faith has be generous enough to offer My New Life As Mom readers a OS Incredibellas diaper in their choice of color!


Head on over to My New Life As Mom and check out her review and enter her giveaway!

Mandatory Entry: Follow her, publicly , on Google Friend Connect and visit Bella Bottoms and comment on what color you would like as well as another item that catches your eye.


Visit My New Life As Mom for information on additional entries as well as all the rules and instructions for the giveaway!

Rockin' Giveaway!

The Cloth Diaper Whisperer (The bloggings of Diaper Shops; Kelly's Closet, 1 Size Diaper Store, Bulk Cloth Diaper.com, Happy Heinys Online.com, and Fuzzi Bunz Online.com) has paired up with Rockin' Green to give a lucky reader a chance to win not one but TWO bags of Rockin' Green Classic Rock laundry detergent!

Seriously a rockin' deal! Two 45/90 load bags for nothin'! All you have to do is visit The Cloth Diaper Whisperer and follow the instructions for entry.

The first (mandatory) entry is just to comment on the contest post to let them know what Rockin' Green scent you'd like to try!

Hurry! The contest ends tomorrow!!

For complete rules please visit The Cloth Diaper Whisperer!
GOOD LUCK!

Bagshot Row Bamboo diapers (Closed)

I just got an e-mail yesterday notifying me that I am the winner!! YAY!!!
Thanks to all who entered Emi's contest :) Keep reading her blog, it's awesome!

One very lucky TCDR reader will win not one, but TWO BSRB custom diapers.

TCDR has reviewed the diapers and is giving a reader a chance to win two of their very own. I know I personally have a BSRB AIO hybrid and I LOVE it. It fits Logan and it fits Xander if I fold it down. The snappi stays in place fine and we have no leaks! This is a great opportunity if you ask me!

The mandatory entry:
1. Visit Bagshot Row Bamboo's hyena cart and comment on some of your favorite styles or patterns. What size, style and fabrics would you choose if you won?

Visit TCDR for information on getting additional entries!

The contest runs until 5/23/2010.

GOOD LUCK!!

Mother-ease giveaway!

Emi of The Cloth Diaper Report, got the opportunity to review a Sandy's fitted diaper and an Air Flow Cover from Mother-ease and she loved them so much that she's giving her readers a chance to win a Sandy's Introductory Offer like the one she reviewed!

I've never tried them so I can't comment on her 8.75 rating but if you're the lucky winner then you can see for yourself!

The Mandatory entry is to visit Mother-ease and pick out your favorite color or print and another product that you'd like to try and comment about it on the contest page.

The contest runs until 5/20/2010. For more complete information, please visit TCDR.

GOOD LUCK!

A Very Inquisitive, Nifty Nappy!

Mindy and Vilate have paired up to give The Inquisitive Mom readers a chance to win a $35 gift certificate for The Nifty Nappy!

Mindy shares with us that she LOVES her Nifty Nappy diapers and breaks down the very reasons for her feelings.

Entering isn't difficult and she's offering lots of ways to gain entries! The mandatory entry is visit The Nifty Nappy, take a gander at the fabrics available, and post a comment on The Inquisitive Mom sharing which is your favorite!

The contest runs until Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 11:59 P.M. CST. For more complete information on the giveaway visit The Inquisitive Mom.

GOOD LUCK!

Win some Rump-a-rooz!

Do you want a chance to win 2-Rumparooz One Size Diapers with 2 Rumparooz 6-R One Size Inserts? If so, go check out http://www.theclothdiaperwhisperer.com/2010/03/fluff-friday-69.html for details on how to win Fluff Friday 69!

There are plenty of ways to earn additional entries but first, head over there and answer the question of the week:

Question of the week:
If a friend asked you 2 reasons why you liked using cloth diapers what would they be?

Have questions?? Visit the FAQ's.

GOOD LUCK!!

Another Diaperstyle Giveaway!!

Diaper Style is offering a chance to win 1 Rocky Mountain Diaper in Moovin' Lemon.

Rocky Mountain Diapers are a One Size diaper with an Internal Adjusting Snap System that instead of exposed snaps on the front of your One Size Diapers.

What you need to do is visit the Diaper style blog and follow the instructions for entry.

The Poll

We all have different reasons for using cloth diapers and I am curious to know what your top reasons are. Please rate the following reasons by order of importance:

~To save money $$?
~Health benefits?
~Environmental reasons?
~Because its cute?

How to enter the giveaway:

There are 3 ways to enter and 2 chances to win! Please leave a separate comment for each entry that you complete. You don't have to have a blog to win, just leave an e-mail address to contact you.

Entry Options:
1) Participate in the poll by leaving your comments
2) Blog about the giveaway and tell me about about it
3) Twitter or write on your Facebook about the giveaway and leave a comment about it

Contest ends on Friday June 5th at 6pm. Good Luck!!!!

Why choose cloth diapers?

Fleece and suedecloth, which are common interior diaper fabrics actually stay dry feeling when wet. It takes A LOT of moisture for these fabrics to actually feel wet. This results in baby's skin remaining dry and not feeling wet after he's peed. It makes him feel more comfortable. Hemp and bamboo are actually naturally antibacterial and antimicrobial which means that they can ward off rashes and help heal rashes.

As for absorbency, microfiber can absorb approx 7x it's weight. Hemp and bamboo are even more absorbent. I use 2 microfiber towels, folded in thirds together inside his "pocket diapers".

Cloth diapers breathe. He gets far more air in these then he would get in disposables. Disposables have actually been proven to cause the temperature of the skin to rise because they can't breathe. The heat that can generate under that diaper has been linked with male infertility. This is really no different than the reason they tell you a man shouldn't hold a laptop on his lap as the heat can cause him to become sterile. This is the same exact concept. Extreme temperatures can cause harm to the testicles and cause them to permanently have problems. Disposables contain paper and plastic along with artificially created gels that absorb. The process of making these gels alone is toxic. The fumes that come off in the factory during production are harmful to all of us. The gels themselves have been linked with toxic shock sydrome and if leaked out onto the skin (and this happened A LOT with Adam so I know first hand that it does happen frequently with various diaper brands) and released into the blood stream, it *can* cause kidney damage. These are actually very dangerous chemicals that are used to make the disposable diapers absorbent. Also, we used disposables with Adam, we had leaks *all* the time. We constantly had to change his clothes along with his diaper. Logan started in disposables and we had the same problem. Every brand leaked after a short time and we had constant "poop blowouts". Since switching him to cloth, this hasn't been a problem.


It also takes 500 years for 1 disposable diaper to degrade. This is not me being very weird or anything but if everyone keeps using disposable diapers, we'll end up overfilling our landfills and quite seriously be a planet full of disposable diapers. Cloth however, will break down far before disposable diapers will so when the diapers are really worn out, there's no harm in throwing them away (after several uses for several children- they last a long time).

There's also the fact that we have saved a ton of money. We've seriously been using the same sized diapers since he was 4 months old. We haven't had to buy more diapers since we bought enough to last us. If you need to see the math for cloth vs. disposable, this site is pretty accurate http://diaperline.blogspot.com/2007/06/sposie-math.html , http://diaperline.blogspot.com/2007/06/sposie-math-two.html

The amount of work to wash them is nearly non existent. First- the argument I usually hear is "well you use more water to wash them" and, well, this is just blatantly untrue. As I said, with disposable diapers, you have to change a lot of the kids clothes too so you're washing a lot of laundry. Cloth diapers don't leak so I have less laundry to do, the occasional load of diapers isn't hurting anything water or electricity wise. Second, I wash 2 loads every 4 days or so. That's once or twice a week depending on which day I wash. I don't presoak them- I just throw them into our pail after he uses them (I just shake the poop off into the toilet, takes about 2 seconds) and then on wash day I wash them.

Here's some links with more info-http://diaperline.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-use-cloth.html , http://www.thenewparentsguide.com/diapers.htm , http://diapersafari.com/diaperinfo/whyclothdiapers/ , http://www.thediaperhyena.com/disposableanatomy.htm , http://www.parentingweb.com/misc/cloth_facts.htm , http://www.thediaperhyena.com/diaper_drama_scene3_health.htm , http://www.zany-zebra.com/cloth-vs-disposable.shtml , http://www.borntolove.com/facts.html , http://www.jilliansdrawers.com/tutorial1.html , http://www.realdiaperassociation.org/diaperfacts.php , http://www.jilliansdrawers.com/whyclothdiapers.html , http://www.justduckybaby.com/index.php?action=cloth_diapers_and_your_baby

and some great places to buy from-
http://www.thanksmama.com/?Click=20432
http://www.kellyscloset.com/?AffId=209
http://www.momsmilkboutique.com/categories.php?PARTNER=Danielle
http://snootybootydiapers.com/store/aGo.asp?aff=5012
http://www.betterbums.com