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MelissaJoanne (1014 days ago)
I have used them and love them, though I prefer cloth. When I was preg. we lived in an apartment with no washer/dryer, and did laundry about every 3 weeks. So, cloth didn`t really seem optimal to me, but I wasn`t about to use disposables, so G`s seemed perfect. We ended up moving into a place that has a washer + dryer, so laundry isn`t an issue anymore, so now I use the little G pants with a cloth pre-fold. They weren`t all that pricey - join the website: they have deals every month or so on free shipping, or discounts. I did find that the size small flushables flushed really well, and the mediums would tend to clog. I didn`t like throwing out the pads, and don`t have a place to compost them, which was also part of why I switched to all cloth rather than sometimes cloth/sometimes Gs. I`m in an old apartment building with old plumbing though, so you might have more luck flushing the mediums. I also may have had a problem because I would always wait to flush the pads until I was flushing the toilet anyway, so it was a pad along with some toilet paper, which was a little more than our pipes could handle.

ermsmom (1014.1 days ago)
They seem too expensive to me.

mommyofxyxyxx (1014.1 days ago)
Sorry, I didn`t mean to sound defensive at all.....I`m trying to figure it out...and doing it `out loud`. Thats all. I WANT to hear options and opinions and I appreciate them!!! Thank you

LKLmama (1014.1 days ago)
Yeah there is.. taking your baby to the bathroom

mommyofxyxyxx (1014.1 days ago)
Oh...and to make a cloth/cotton diaper, don`t they have to harvest the cotton(which takes fuel) then process it and turn it into a diaper with machinery??? Seems to me that, along with all the washing and drying, it isn`t as eco friendly as we suspect it is. I don`t know....I am by NO means an expert. I absolutely don`t have time for cloth..I`ve tried it. So now I`m just wondering if there`s anything better than plain old disposable...

mommyofxyxyxx (1014.1 days ago)
Duh...I spelled the word `their` wrong.....I can spell, honest.

mommyofxyxyxx (1014.1 days ago)
On thier website, it says they take 50 to 100 DAYS to decompose because there is no plastic in them. In fact, they say if you have a septic system you can go ahead and throw them in the trash and in 2-3 months, they will disintegrate.

Lookalike (1014.1 days ago)
xxooxx makes a good point. I (and by I, I mean my hand dandy husband) built a two bin compost pile in our backyard with seven palets we got from the back of the hardware store. We compost EVERYTHING now. If I used the g diapers I would compost them. I even compost the shredded paper from our mail/junk mail. It is more of a hastle than throwing everything away, but in the end I feel better about it since I`ve actually been to the dump and it doesn`t look like anything is breaking down there.



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