One "G" at a time

This is the last post in my series entitled, "Baby Steps into becoming a more 'Green' Mom". 

I've offered quite a few, really easy steps we moms can take to incorporate into our everyday life and do our part to leave the earth in a better state than it is now. Our children will thank us.


Being a first time mom, I had much to learn and adjust to (still am) in those first few months. During my pregnancy, my husband and I discussed how would we handle the diaper situation. I'm not talking about who has to change the poopy diaper. I'm talking about the great diaper debate--cloth versus disposable.

Now, I'm not going to get preachy on what you should do. Rather, I'll let you know what we're doing and why. We wanted to be able to use diapers that were 1) easy to use, 2) were not expensive, 3) environmentally-friendly as much as possible, and comfortable for our baby. Handling a tricky transition from just plain wife, to mother, and CEO of the household was way too much for me to absorb (no pun intended). Our answer, a combination of disposable and G diapers. This is something we're doing now.

In the beginning, when the baby came, I couldn't fathom the idea of using cloth diapers. I just thought cloth was way too hard, and the convenience of using disposables when you're out and about, was just too tempting. I was raised in cloth diapers. Back then it was the only thing that was affordable and available growing up in the Philippines. 


But as time wore on, I was disappointed in how many disposable diapers I was chucking away in our diaper champ, and I knew would take a millenia to break down and were clogging our landfills. I really wanted Micro (that's our baby boy) to enjoy our earth and its beauty. With the more travel we do as a family, our thoughts now turn to, "I hope MG will get a chance to see this in his lifetime or learn about it somehow." 

So my husband got proactive, researched alternative diapers to use, and chose G diapers. There is a wealth of information that other mommy bloggers have posted about the diaper debate and some are worth reading for educational purposes. Click here for more info on G diapers. We use G diapers at home mostly, and use disposables when we're out. I have yet still to make a full transition to using G's 100% of the time at home, but slowly getting there. MG has been fine in them and shows no discomfort. I like the cool colors they have for the outer shell, the ease of disposing it, doesn't give him any diaper rash, and it's affordable if you buy and subscribe to it on Amazon (you can cancel the subscription anytime).
 

Again, I'm not here to judge or be sanctimonious about those who use disposable only. I just want to share what worked for us and is currently a comfortable method. It's our way to being a bit more 'green'. 
We can all take a step or two, and they need not be HUGE ones, to becoming a more 'green' mother. I especially like this website for information on products that are environmentally friendly and non-toxic. Feel free to share with me your thoughts on this topic in the comments section.