| Veteran parents, especially parents of big families, | | | | Even if it's grandma or Aunt Sophie, your daycare |
| heartily and enthusiastically will testify that, for the first | | | | provider still will want disposables. The best diaper |
| few months, you cannot make a better investment | | | | services drain the wallet, and you need to economize, |
| than a diaper service. During the first few months, you | | | | because you have the added cost of daycare. You |
| remain constantly sleep-deprived, and the whole world | | | | will learn that properly licensed, professional daycare |
| seems more than a little fuzzy, grainy, and generally | | | | providers cost quite a bit. With both parents working, |
| out of focus. Anything that lightens your workload also | | | | time management grows tricky, and it becomes |
| helps to reduce your stress...and maybe allow an extra | | | | incredibly difficult to block-out time for daily loads of |
| hour's sleep or the remote chance of a nap. During the | | | | laundry-especially because proper care of cloth |
| first few months, you even can go all out for both the | | | | diapers requires a couple of extra additives and |
| baby and the planet, subscribing to an eco-friendly | | | | cycles. Not only will you need to buy diapers, but you |
| diaper service. The service will exchange your dirty | | | | probably will see the wisdom of buying disposable |
| diapers for clean ones several times each week, | | | | diapers...in bulk. |
| usually using flex-fuel or earth-friendly vans, | | | | But do you really-really need to buy diapers? Once |
| guaranteeing to wash the diapers in detergents that | | | | again, the appeal of bio-degradable diapers becomes |
| will not harm the water system or animals, and | | | | clear, because you can buy a twenty-pack of cloth |
| assuring that the diapers themselves are earth-friendly. | | | | diapers and line them with disposable-biodegradable |
| From your perspective, you should see that the diaper | | | | diaper liners. If you're really clever, you will find cloth |
| service is doing the most labor-intensive diaper plan | | | | diapers equipped with Velcro tabs, so that you keep |
| known to mankind; you, the baby, and Mother Earth | | | | the efficiency advantage of disposables, and if you're |
| get all the benefits. | | | | really dexterous, you will perfect the art of diapering |
| So, do you really need to buy diapers? After the first | | | | with one hand while managing business on your |
| few months, yes you do, because Mom has gone | | | | blackberry with the other. Many mothers can add |
| back to work, and your daycare provider almost | | | | other verbal tasks to the multi-task while diapering |
| inevitably will want the convenience of disposables. | | | | repertoire. |