Alexis H.'s Profile
"Just your typical green, knitting biology professor and parent."
Member since April, 2007
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Portland, OR
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Last great book or movie
Goodnight Moon
My Dream Product
The watch from that old TV movie, The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything
How we'll get around in 20 years...
Flashy "cool" walkers as the Baby Boomers cruise their retirement communities
Offline, find me...
Chasing kids, knitting socks, cooking something chocolate...
My heroes
Bill Nye, the science guy
My non-green guilty pleasure
On a hot, muggy day, a cranberry lemon slush from Sonic.
gDiapers: Changing the world from the bottom up
Diapers, a hot button issue among eco-minded parents. Cloth? Disposables? How about a new, middle way: flushing baby's waste the same place as the rest of the family?
gDiapers are flushable inserts fit into adorable cotton g-pants. The inserts are absorbant and, with a practiced bit of tearing and swishing, flush down the toilet. Or the wet ones can be composted; they biodegrade completely in about a month! No diaper pail, no overflowing trashcan. The g-pants don't have to be washed every time, as usually only the insert gets messy. The pants have a waterproof nylon liner which can be removed quickly and easily for a quick wash in the sink when an inevitable "blow out" happens. When the time for washing does come, toss the pants and liner into the laundry.
But the real question is, how well do they work? I've been using them for over a year, and love them! They leak less than the disposables or cloth diapers I used with my first child. As testament to how much so, consider that I don't carry a spare outfit for baby in my purse! With my first child, it was a regular event to have change not just the diaper, but the rest of the clothes too. Now, the diaper always contains everything, everytime! And I like how flexible they are for different situations: use a flushable g, or a cloth insert, or at night add a second flushable for a heavy wetter. I use flushables while out, and at daycare, flushing them when convenient, or disposing of them in the trash when the situation dictates. At home, we use cloth inserts in the same g-pants.
Available in stores and online from several retailers, some of whom offer free shipping. As with almost anything with babies, there is a learning curve, but the customer service for the company is amazingly quick and responsive.
Change your baby AND change the world... from the bottom up! No landfill required.
keywords: cloth, diaper, compost, flushable, gDiaper, gpants
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