Dear Mom,

Our local Toys’R’Us store contains an overwhelming range of baby paraphernalia. Most of this makes me rather stressed (why are there so many types of bottles?), but one item caught my eye: It is the Tots Bots nappy!

It comes in 5 exciting colours (apart from the traditional white – which they can keep in my opinion), it is shaped, and it has a handy (and hopefully idiot-proof) strip of material to put the nappy liner onto.

It is perhaps telling that I am more pleased by the fact that baby Hap could wear coloured nappies than I am about sparing the environment, but I am sure that I will get a warm glowy feeling about making effort to minimise the volume of dirty disposables cluttering the landfill sites.

If you would like to watch me putting nappies on a teddy bear you can click on these links to youtube:

Tots-Bots nappy

Muslin cloth

I had added these to the comedy rather than to the educational section, as there is no doubt some subtle/major point that I have overlooked.

If you would like to know more about cloth nappies, The Nappy Lady is a good source of information.

Yours etc.

Bronwen

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Both of the maternity untis that I have visited have advertised a trial pack of cloth nappies. The selling points are:
-saving the environment
-saving money

At St Peters (near Woking) this pack costs 30 pounds, and at the hospital in Inverness it is completely free. It seems that different councils have different subsidies to encourage mothers to make the switch.

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Thank you to Dot for making the videos!