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News You Can Use... Try these Great Tips... Does your little one cry out for a drink of water at night?  Hang a cup holder designed for a car door or stroller handle on the rail of the crib or headboard of the bed.  If your little one wants a drink, he can help himself! Traveling with a little one?  Put painter's tape or duct tape over the speakers of her noisy toys so she can play happily on the airplane and in hotels without disturbing other travelers! Shy about breastfeeding in public but don't like the style of nursing shirts?  Wear a nursing tank or camisole or belly band under your shirt so that when you lift your shirt, your belly isn't exposed! Have a little one in diapers?  Need feeding supplies?  BPA free cups?  Organic baby food and snacks?  Use the coupon code BabyBook for $10 off of your first order at:   www.diapers.com  They have the best prices and orders ALWAYS arrive in just one or two days, straight to your door.  I used them when I lived overseas and continue to use them now that I am back in the US. Current Recalls: For immediate notification of recalls, you can subsribe to the Consumer Product Safety Commission's email list at the link below, just click on the infant/child list and enter your email address. http://www.cpsc.gov/cpsclist.asp	Cloth diapers are easier to use than ever before.  Here's why you should choose them...  Your baby's comfort. Would you like to wear stiff paper (and/or plastic) underwear 24 hours a day?  My kids have super sensitive  skin that gets red from irritation after wearing a disposable diaper for only a sort period.  After being in cloth for only a day, the redness is gone.  My two older sons had diaper rash regularly and it was often severe, while my third son, who was cloth diapered, almost never had a rash  and when he did, it was always related to another illness. Leaks. Disposable diapers have endless blowouts and leaks out the sides, while cloth diapers immediately absorb nearly all moisture so they rarely leak when used properly with good fit, even at night! The environment. Leave a cleaner world behind for your children and your grandchildren. Disposables leave behind an average of 2.7 tons of non-biodegradable waste (not to mention the waste produced by manufacturing them alone) per child. Compare that to a few dozen cotton diapers, and the responsible choice also becomes clear.  The laundry energy and soap used are minimal.  Each load of diapers requires only about a quarter of the amount of detergent used in a regular load of laundry. Save money. With disposables, some estimate you spend an average of more than $2000 per child. Cloth comes to only an average of $150-$350 per child (with the added but minimal cost of electricity and water to launder them). What a great excuse to start a college fund for your baby now, and you can rest assure that your money is being well-spent and not going to "waste" in a land-fill! Potty training is easier, and happens earlier. It's a little-known fact that cloth diaper children potty train earlier, and with less effort on their parents' part. This phenomenon has mostly to do with the fact that when a cloth diaper is wet, they can feel the sensation. Chemical laden disposables can feel so dry, your baby never gets a chance to understand what their body is doing. Cotton diapers are chemical free. Polyacrylate gel in diapers is a relatively new phenomenon, and no one really knows what the long term effects are. It also leaches moisture from your babies skin. Additionally, disposables are full of dioxins. While non-organic cotton cloth diapers can also have dioxins, they typically are washed out within the first few pre-washes (before your baby will ever wear them), however one-use-only disposables are never rid of them. The dioxin and bleach in disposables are part of what contributes to toxic shock syndrome.  Some studies have shown that adults who wore disposable diapers as babies now have fertility problems from the leaching chemicals.  Additionally, and perhaps the most compelling reason to use cloth diapers, is that disposable diapers containing polyacrylate gel are suspected of exacerbating, and even causing, asthma. Convenience. Convenience? Yes, convenience! You'll never have to worry about making another late-night trip to your grocery store for a package of disposable diapers.. You'll never have to hold your nose while emptying and re-bagging one of those complicated "Diaper Genie®" contraptions.. And you'll have approximately two bags less of garbage to haul to the curb every week!  Plus, the poop smell is not as strong when it doesn't react with chemicals in disposables. Being a leader is much more fun than being a follower. Stand out from the crowd and show you care to give your baby the very best, including the way you diaper. It's so much more fun to share the joy of cloth diapering with other mothers (who are usually very curious!), than to waste time clipping the latest coupons for the cheapest disposable paper diaper.