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Even if you don’t have a baby on the way, this New Orleans business is worth remembering for all your friends who are pregnant or have recently become parents. Better Bottoms diaper delivery will set up newborn parents with everything they need to start their baby off right with the benefits of cloth diapers and their environmental impact.

Initially, the Better Bottoms van comes to your home to drop off one week’s worth of pre-fold cloth diapers on your doorstep. In addition to your pre-determined number of diapers (they have the formula based on age on their website), with your start-up package you will receive a diaper pail, 2 water-proof pail liners much like a laundry bag, a deodorant disk, a Snappi, a small water-proof bag for away-from-home use, a box of baking soda and a cloth diapering hand guide.

Better Bottoms will do all the dirty work! And you won’t be the bad parents with disposable diapers that take hundreds of years to decompose getting tossed into our landfills!

If you’re really serious about entering this decade with an eco-conscious, then Better Bottoms has arrived to help deliver you.

Cloth is Better for potty training and your wallet!

Let’s face it, this is the number one reason you would crawl away from disposables. On average, toddlers in cloth diapers potty train up to one year earlier than those in disposables. This is not only a plus for your household budget and the environment, but doing away with a year’s worth of diaper changes is enough to give every parent something to smile about.

Cloth is Better for your Baby’s Bottom!

Disposable diapers were introduced mainstream in 1961. Prior to that, virtually every baby’s bottom was wrapped in soft cotton, and diaper services were as common as the milkman. By 1991, 90% of babies in the United States were using disposable diapers which contain, among other things, plastics, synthetic perfumes and harsh chemicals such as sodium polyacrylate, used to absorb the urine and keep it in the form of a “gel” against your baby’s skin. Since the introduction of single-use diapers, diaper rash has become an unavoidable epidemic, increasing baby and toddler rashes from 7% in 1955 to a reported 78% in 1991. Cloth diapers are 100% cotton and are far better for your baby’s bottom than their disposable counterparts.

Cloth is Better for the Environment!

The 18 billion single-use diapers discarded each year are one of the largest sources of solid waste in landfills, second only to newspapers and food and beverage containers. Did you know that it will take over 500 years for a single-use diaper to decompose? That means that every single-use diaper ever made is still in existence today. In addition, the 84 million pounds per year of raw, untreated sewage in landfills from diapers emits large quantities of carbon dioxide and methane, both of which have been linked as major contributors to Global Warming.

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