Contest –> Win Six bumGenius 3.0 One-Size Cloth Diapers

**Contest Closed — Winner will be announced Sunday, Oct 4th, 2009. **

Make sure to enter the Crest and Oral-B (Value $125+) Contest @ mommyknows.com

**EDIT: Receive THREE extra entries by following DiaperTips and MommyKnows (that’s me) on Twitter. No need to comment your follows. I will add all new followers to the drawing.**

Everybody’s raving about the bumGenius 3.0 One-Size Cloth Diapers, so ClothDiaperTips is going to give one lucky commenter SIX free diapers (value $120+)

Experience the first cloth diaper loved by every-day people – like your babysitter, grandparents and even dad! The bumGenius one-size cloth diaper is the first cloth diaper to feature stretch-to-fit tabs (patent pending), making cloth diapering as easy and comfortable as using disposables.

If you’d like to be eligible to Win a Six bumGenius 3.0 One-Size Cloth Diapers (Value $120+):

You may enter in three ways:
1. Leave a comment (easy! worth 1 entry)
2. Blog about the contest (worth 2 entries)
3. Twitter the contest using hashtag #FreeDiapers (worth 2 entries)

**EDIT: Receive THREE extra entries by following DiaperTips and MommyKnows (that’s me) on Twitter. No need to comment your follows. I will add all new followers to the drawing.**

On Friday October 2nd, 2009 I will randomly choose 1 winner and announce it here on the blog. You can then email me with your address and color choices and I will have your diapers in the mail pronto.

Make sure add our RSS feed so you’ll know if you’re the WINNER!

Win a Bummis Organic Cotton Diaper Kit (Value $160+)

The WINNER is: Tresa Van Soeren – Tresa please email me (kim (@) clothdiapertips (dot) com) with your mailing address and size preference and I’ll get your prize out to you ASAP.

Bummis has generously offered ClothDiaperTips readers the opportunity to win a Bummis Organic Cotton Diaper Kit (Value $160+)

Introducing the ORGANIC COTTON DIAPER KIT, a value packed box of cloth diapering essentials with everything you need to start using cloth diapers now! You don’t need to be cloth diaper savvy in order to appreciate it – but if you are, you will REALLY love this beautiful new boxed kit!

Bummis has put together an economical, easy and environmentally friendly starter kit that completely removes the guesswork from choosing a cloth diaper system.

The luxurious organic cotton pre-folds are such a truly economical diaper system that you can start diapering right away without a big outlay of cash.

Flushable liners and a step-by-step guide to no-fuss diapering make it easy for you. No rinsing, no pins, no stuffing and no big deal to wash this diaper system! AND you can call Bummis toll free help line any time with questions. After 20 years of selling reusable diaper systems, Bummis are very good at helping parents succeed at and enjoy cloth diapering.

The bottom line is that organic cotton diapers are truly the greenest choice in diapering. From the growing and harvesting of the cotton itself to what actually touches baby’s skin, organic cotton is simply the best! Safer for growers, workers and baby and …. this beautiful planet earth.

This deluxe diapering system in its bright and pretty box is so tempting and so practical too that you will not be able to resist taking it home – for your own baby, your grandchild, or as a shower gift.

Note: The kit comes in two sizes. The winner may choose the size of their choice.

If you’d like to be eligible to Win a Bummis Organic Cotton Diaper Kit (Value $160+):

You may enter in three ways:
1. Leave a comment (easy! worth 1 entry)
2. Blog about the contest (worth 2 entries)
3. Twitter the contest using hashtag #bummis (worth 2 entries)

On Friday June 12th, 2009 I will randomly choose 1 winner and announce it here on the blog. You can then email me with your address and color choices and Bummis will have your diapers in the mail pronto.

Make sure add our RSS feed so you’ll know if you’re the WINNER!

Mama Rose’s Naturals Review

Mmmmm … I love the smell of the Mama Rose’s Naturals Sunshine Spray Skin & Diaper Care, so much I have been using it for myself … DAILY! No one needs calming more than I do these days. It’s not just for diapering.

Mama Rose’s Natural Sunshine Spray consists of beautifully fragrant flower waters are aroma therapeutic, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory to help calm and sooth the skin and diaper area. Wonderful for the entire family, and is ALCOHOL FREE! 2006 iPARENTING MEDIA AWARD WINNER!

I’ve also been testing the Magic Touch Skin & Diaper Balm on three of my childrens eczema. It is working … well.

The Magic Touch Skin & Diaper Balm helps sooth and protect diaper rash, minor cuts, eczema, burns, insect bites & stings, and other skin ailments. Great for the entire family!

Georgia my youngest often has severely chapped skin around her mouth. The kind that she can’t seem to keep herself from licking repeatedly throughout the day. Not only has the Magic Touch Skin & Diaper Balm helped the chapping immensely, but I feel confident that it is safe to be used around the mouth, and I am not worried about it being ingested.

I can’t say enough about these fantastic products. Mama Rose’s Naturals is a mom owned and operated business. Make sure to check out her entire line of products for the ENTIRE family HERE.

Cloth Diapers Can SAVE you Money!

by Priscilla Kidder

The soft economy and the trend toward greener living make this the ideal time to start using cloth diapers. Parents everywhere are more concerned than ever about exposing their children to environmental toxins. The informed parents are also concerned about overflowing landfills and chemical by-products used in disposable diapers.

It s been estimated that approximately five million tons of untreated waste and a total of 2 billion tons of urine, feces, plastic and paper are added to landfills annually. The untreated waste placed in landfills by dirty disposable diapers is also a possible danger to contaminating ground water It takes around 80,000 pounds of plastic and over 200,000 trees a year to manufacture the disposable diapers for American babies alone.

The health of a baby s skin is improved by the use of cloth diapers and the naturally anti-microbial properties of bamboo fabric make bamboo ideal for cloth diapers. Studies have shown that the incidence of diaper rash increased with the use of disposable diapers. Babies who wear cloth diapers are generally changed more often, and potty train sooner. This is because they are able to feel the wetness against their skin and learn to react to it appropriately. In disposable diapers, children are often left for hours unchanged with ever expanding chemical gels swelling up each time a child wets.

The economy is causing many parents to cut back on expenses where ever possible. One way to save up to $2,000 per child is to use cloth diapers. If you use cloth diapers for more than one child, the savings are even more significant. An easy and economical method of cloth diapering is to use pre folds and inexpensive nylon wrap or pull on covers. If you want ease of use, then pocket or “all in ones” may be the way to go.

I cloth diapered my five children, over a period of 20+ years. My first two were in diaper service quality prefolds and wrap style covers. I began making my own covers for them just to have a cute variety of prints. My last child is potty trained now, but he wore fitted cloth diapers and wool covers. The wool was new for me, and I started out making his covers out of old sweaters made of wool. When I launched Be-Bops in 2004, I began using wool interlock and and blends, and adding unique applique s to my wool wraps. When I think of how many disposable diapers I would have used for five children, it’s mind boggling. One of the greatest pleasures of using cloth on your baby is knowing that not only are you wrapping your precious child in comfortable natural fabrics, but that you aren’t adding to our already overflowing landfills. Isn’t it time to take a step back, and explore the use of cloth.

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Win Three Bamboo Baby AIO O/S Cloth Diapers

Winner is Emily B. –> please email me Emily @ kim (@) clothdiapertips (dot) com — I’ll need your mailing address.

Finally a Bamboo AIO / OS diaper at a reasonable price, and THREE of them can be yours for FREE!

Dri-Line’s Bamboo Baby fits most babies from 8 to 34 Lbs.

Waterproof PUL outer and super soft luxurious bamboo fleece inner (80% bamboo / 20% cotton).

Features include:
1. Super soft bamboo fleece inner, including a one size liner with 3 layers of thirsty bamboo fleece.
2. A 2 x 3 snap design easily allows the Bamboo Baby AIO /OS diaper to grow with your baby. This snap design has been tried and tested for nearly two decades on our top selling SnugToFit OS diaper.
3. Stretchy tabs combined with quality hoop & loop closures make cloth diapering as easy as disposables.
4. Elasticized leg construction helps to contain messes.
5. Fold back tabs to prevent a ‘diaper chain’ during laundry.
6. Fits most babies from 8 to 34 lbs.

This is NOT a pocket diaper. NO stuffing required.

From left to right: Newborn, Small, Medium and Large.

Bamboo Baby AIO / OS Diaper is available in 4 attractive colors.

From left to right: Blue, Sage, Butter, and White

Care: machine wash and tumble dry. Bamboo Baby will stay luxuriously soft wash after wash.

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Bamboo Baby Cloth Diapers are manufactured by Dri-line Products, in Edmonton, Alberta. I can personally ‘vouch’ for Dri-line and all of their products. I’ve been in the factory dozens, if not 100’s of times. I can tell you that Dri-line is a fair employer, staffed by Canadian workers. Workers that make a fair wage, get a 50 week maternity leave and smile as they sew (I’ve seen it). I can also tell you that many of the employees have been there for a more than a decade (all the years I’ve been going there). I particularly like Yasmine the owner, Gourmeet the snap expert and Keiko the cutter.

I’m telling you this about Dri-line, because I think it is import in these tough economic times to protect North American manufacturing jobs. To support businesses, that support thier workers, that support thier families that live in our communities.

I also have a fondness for Bamboo Baby Diapers, because I was priveledged to give my opinion and input during their design and production. I’m REALLY, REALLY good at giving my opinion … just sayin’.

It’s safe then to say that I’m thrilled that Dri-Line is going to give one of you THREE Bamboo Baby Cloth Diapers.

If you are a cloth diaper user and would like to purchase Bamboo Baby:

Canada: thebabymarketplace.com
USA: Everything Birth

If you’d like to stock Bamboo Baby in your shop contact:

Canada: info@dri-line.com
USA: wholesale@bamboobabyonline.com

If you’d like to be eligible to Win a 3 Pack of Bamboo Baby AIO O/S cloth diapers:

You may enter in three ways:
1. Leave a comment (easy! worth 1 entry)
2. Blog about the contest (worth 2 entries)
3. Twitter the contest using hashtag #bamboobaby (worth 2 entries)

On Friday May 8th, 2009 I will randomly choose 1 winner and announce it here on the blog. You can then email me with your address and color choices and Dri-Line will have your diapers in the mail pronto.

Make sure add our RSS feed so you’ll know if you’re the WINNER!

Clothinglabels4u Review

If you have a product to sell, then clothlabels4u has the right label for you!

I have to tell you that I was VERY surprised at the HUGE range of samples Lisa of http://clothinglabels4u.com/ sent over to me to review. I guess with my limited manufacturing experience, I wasn’t thinking past the ‘care tag’ sewn into garments, or the ‘made by grandma’ tags you can buy at a craft store.

Just take a look … they have paper tags, recycled paper tags, tags with ribbon, tags with string, instruction card inserts, rubber tags, woven tags, adhesive tags, damask labels, satin labels, taffeta labels, embroidered badges and even a ruler.

Best of all Lisa of clothinglabels4u is great to work with. If you make your own products and need clothing labels of any sort clothinglabels4u is a great place to get them.

This is not a paid advertisement. Clothinglabels4u provided product only for an honest and candid review.

Gen-Y Side Snap Diaper Cover and Laundry Tote Review

My first reaction when I opened the Gen-Y package for reveiw, was “WOW, this is gorgeous”. I was lucky and received the side snapping cover in this gorgeous Anna Maria Horner’s Chocolate Lollipop print.

You won’t want to cover this up! I’d say it’s a definite MUST for summer cloth diapering. Chocolate binding and snaps make for the perfect finishing touch.

Gen-Y cloth diaper covers are available in numerous sizes fitting babies 8 – 31+ lbs

Three rows of snaps make sure you get a comfortable fit for your baby.

Side snap covers are so easy to use and do a fabulous job of keep leaks away. An inner layer of PUL acts as a waterproof barrier, but is soft and flexible. The waist and legs are fitted with non-wicking stretch binding that gathers the fabric, yet is gentle on little legs and tummies. Poly-resin snap closures allow air circulation, are more difficult for your baby to undo, and wont snag or wear out with time. Machine wash/ dry with your other diapers… What’s not to love?

GEN-Y products are made in the USA.

I find side-snap covers work best with a fitted cloth diaper, but can also be used with a prefold with snappi (or pins).

Gen-Y covers are designed to wear hard and last. They are guaranteed against defects for six months from the date of sale to the original customer.

Gen-Y side snap covers are available in several great prints. Check out Gen-Y today and get a terrific side snapping diaper cover.

The laundry tote I received works well! I took advantage of it on a weekend trip to the mountains last weekend. You can imagine with the snow meltin and four kids, we had plenty of wet and soiled laundry. I managed to stuff a multitude of very muddy kids clothing into the tote. I was a wee bit worried about it soaking through and soiling our clean clothing for the trip home, but the tote held up wonderfully. The best part … I was able to just unzip it, throw the whole works into the machine when we got home … laundry tote and all.

The laundry tote is 14×26, it is made of heavy duty PUL and closes with a zipper to keep odors where they belong. A beautiful handle is constructed of two layers of cotton woven fabric, reinforced with heavy duty thread; it is just the right size to go over a door knob or wall hook. All seams and corners are reinforced.

This is not a paid advertisement. Gen-Y provided product only for an honest and candid review.

Tidbit-Couture Wool Diaper Cover Reveiw

Wool has got to be my favorite natural fabric for diapering (especially for night time), so I was looking forward to receiving the Tidbit-Couture organic wool diaper covers for review. I wasn’t disappointed. The 100% Organic Merino Wool is super soft to the touch. You’ll be more than pleased to use it on your baby.

I received both a snap closing organic merino wool wrap:

and a pair of organic merino wool pull-on longies:

The workmanship on both items is superb as you can see in the photo below.

The wrap is designed with two (2) layers of beautiful, durable, soft Certified 100% Organic Merino Wool and a multitude of snaps to ensure you get the right fit.

The longies are also designed beautiful, durable, soft Certified 100% Organic Merino Wool, but are one-ply outer-layer and a short inner-layer so as to offer double protection in the diaper area where is is most needed. Note: longies are not available for purchase until later this spring. I just loved these. I can’t imagine a more comfortable garment for a small baby (or big one)!

These fantastic wool diaper covers are available at Tidbit Couture in natural and several wash-fast hand-dyed colors colors. Price ranges from 29.95 – 36.95 depending on color and size.

To learn more about wool and why it should be part of your cloth diapering routine at our sister site –> Why Wool’s Cool

This is not a paid advertisement. Tidbit Couture provided product only for an honest and candid review.

Why should I use Cloth Diapers?

There are tons of reasons why more and more parents are choosing to use cloth diapers. The simplest answer to this question is they are way LESS money, they are better for your baby (come on … admit it you don’t wear paper underwear!) and they are better for the planet. The answer you’ll get from nearly every cloth diapeirng mom, “it’s fun!” Now you don’t here that about paper diapers very often do you? For an great essay on one mom’s choice to use cloth diapers read, ‘The Diaper Drama’.

Do Cloth Diapers Stink?

NO! Cloth diapers don’t stink any worse than paper diapers! If your cloth diapers are smelling after they have been washed, you’ll need to assess your current diaper laundering routine. The most common reason for odors with cloth diapers detergent build up. Proper cleansing is essential to avoid detergent build-up  and odor issues.

A few factors that can influence how clean your cloth diapers are getting; these include:

• water type,
• water temperature,
• type of detergent,
• type of washing machine.

If you experience problems, usually a small change to your laundering routine will solve the issues.

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