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Breast feed, bottle feed? Home Birth, Water Birth, Hospital Birth? What colour to decorate the baby room, cots, cribs, moses baskets? What's a muslin square again? Without a doubt there are many, many options open to you as a parent to be, with so many retailers telling you what to buy, and so many magazines reporting what you should do, shouldn't do and couldn't do, I have to admit, I was overwhelmed. Midwifes tell you not to listen to mother, as though she's trying to help, what she knows is probably twenty years out of date, how very true that was in my case!

The very last choice is which disposable nappy to use - and most parents then only believe there are two. What about Cloth Nappies?

Once I discovered I was pregnant, I like every new parent to be declared I was going to do everything right, and give my child the best head start in life I could - this was while I sat filling my face with takeaway pizza. A few weeks of internet research, and I had decided that baby signing, and massage was definitely the way to go. Then I happened on a report about cloth nappies. I had considered using cloth, but immediately discarded the idea, thinking of all that extra washing, those safety pins, folding, boiling soaking, I was going to be a mum, didn't I have enough to do?

Save hundreds of pounds, headlined one website, another proclaimed the health benefits, no Boiling, declared another site, no terry squares, no safety pins. If this was true, why not use cloth? I can say now from experience, by using cloth you are not just doing your bit for our rapidly reducing landfill in the UK, you are helping your child's development by protecting their hips and spines, you are probably going to save yourself at the very least £500, if not more. Of course, there's always baby number two…

Cloth nappies will save you money.

You are reducing the amount you wash, not increasing, as modern nappies can go in the machine, at 40 degrees - you can wash them with your usual wash powder. Using cloth nappies does not mean more hassle. After getting sound advice from one of the site that offer such, I bought my cloth nappies and tucked them away for the big day. So it wasn't me that was fighting with my newborn while changing all the bedding at 2am because the disposable nappy I had bought had allowed poo to leak everywhere, I was getting a good amount of sleep, while envious others struggled to stay awake at baby groups.

Cloth nappies deal with explosive baby poo, disposables struggle.

When I took my daughter for her hip scan at 6 weeks, the consultant noted her cloth nappy, commented on how medical studies have related the increase of hip problems, with the increased use of disposable nappies. Cloth nappies are better for your baby's health.

The amount of time I saved from putting the bin out in cold winter nights will always be remembered!

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