Kids Health Notes give-away: Kushies cloth diapers
June 9, 2008 by Grace Ibay
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Let me tell you, new babies can be very expensive!
Diapers alone can cost up to $1,500 to $2,000 or more on disposables by the time baby is done with them. That would be anywhere from $0.16 to $0.25 cents per diaper. Now compare that reusable or cloth diapers at around 12 cents a diaper with a washing service, or 3 cents if you wash them yourself. But that’s not all the difference between cloth and disposable. Rashes happen at about the same amount regardless of the type used. Obviously, disposables are a lot more convenient, but they do fill up the landfill fast!
Which one to use? This white paper from the University of Michigan recommends you take advantage of both, or try both to see which one you end up more inclined to… but while you are still thinking about it… 
Kushies, the world’s leader on washable diapers, is sponsoring to give-away three Starter Diaper Packages (retails at $90 each)
Infant Ultra Diapers 5 pack
- Flushable liners
- Infant/toddler washable diaper liner
- And…for something fun for winners a Kushies Kritters Max Monkey Pillow (picture below the fold)
How to join?
In the comments, can you share a funny potty/diaper humor? (I’ll start – tonight my infant son farted really loudly in the middle of a prayer meeting! LOL ).
- Additional entry will be given to those who link this contest post on their site! You need to include your post URL.
- Eligibility – one entry per person per email daily (so you get more entries if you come back tomorrow, but I want to head different stories each time).
- It’s open to residents of the US, Puerto Rico and Canada. If you have a blog, do post your URL as well, as I love to visit my readers’ sites and catch a conversation.
Contest ends 12:00 midnight EST on June 23, 2008 (Monday). Three winners will be randomly chosen and announced via blog and email the week after. If the winner does not reply within 3 days, he/she forfeits her winnings and an alternate winner will be chosen.
Kushies has a huge clothing line for children. Check out this website www.kushiesonline.com for more products!
images: Kushies
I would love to try them out with my son! We’re still about a year away from any funny potty-training stories… : )
It started at an early age, but my son can still “fart on command”. Must be a GUY thing!!!
My son pooped in the tub and I had to carefully remove what seemed like thousands of mandarin orange pieces that were sticking everywhere! All his tub toys were trashed and I didn’t look at the tub the same way for quite some time, even thought I scrubbed the daylights out of it. Yuck!
I’d been trying to potty train my son for weeks. Well, while I was having a moment to myself on the potty, my child rushed in, just as I was standing up, tugging on my undies. His eyes got big and his mouth dropped open; “Mommy, he said; your teeter fell off”, your teeter fell off!!! I tried to be calm and told him; “Mommies don’t have teeters”. With his big sad look, he said; “Poor Mommy”. He then told everyone we saw for the next month that his poor mommy didn’t have a teeter, always ending with poor mommy!
My 2 year old started wearing “pull ups” but she called them diapers. We had a guy come to fix the kitchen floor and she was in her high chair. She said to the man “your diaper is showing” lol He had plumbers crack lol It’s funny now but at the time I wanted to die!
Today when I was changing a diaper @ the daycare the child (new to the daycare looked up @ me and said ” HI my name is Charlie, whats yours” I dont know why this tickled me pink. Like hello you are seeing all my goodies, I should at least know your name!
I used cloth on my first 2 kids. The best thing about it was saving all that money. I used the same diapers for both kids.
My daughter squeals with laughter when a ‘toot’ escapes her. I guess at some point we’ll have to teach her some etiquette, but for now it’s too cute!
My 2 year farts in the tub and tries his little heart out, to catch the “fart bubble” lol
go green!
My son is 11 months old. Ever since he was about
3 months he always finds it the best time to poop
when he’s in the bath tub. We just found out it’s not just the tub when we took him to the pool last week. Thankfully he had a little swimmer on. Thanks for the giveaway!
My 2 year old is afraid of the potty & refuses her traditional disposable diapers. The green option should help her feel like a growing girl. Thank you!
We tried teaching my grandson to throw his dirty diapers in the garbage and it was going great….until we found his hidden stash in his toy box lol
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I once returned to find the babysitter scrubbing down the crib. My daughter had gotten into her diaper and smeared it everywhere, including on herself, the crib, and even the walls! YUCKY
Our two year old granddaughter hates to be in a messy diapers, so one day at nap time, we thought she was asleep, but when we went in to check on her, she had taken off all her clothes, and smeared poop all over her body, then decided to decorated the wall behind the crib. A bath and three loads of laundry later, we finally had the mess all cleaned up. We keep a very close eye on her when she naps now!
my son was telling me that it’s good to try new things. he went on to list “new foods, new pee….”
My son was so proud of his first 10-15 poops in the potty seat that we had to take Polaroid pictures of them before we were “allowed” to flush them. He used to carry his photos around like treasured trading cards. He loved showing off his accomplishments to anyone that he could, including the mailman!
When my son was very tiny, I was changing his diaper, held his legs up to scoot the new one under him, and the second it was under him, he pooped again. As I’m wiping him up (now I have no diapers within reach), he poops again! This time, ALL over my lap. *sigh* It was one of those moment where you think “I can laugh, or I can cry” so I started laughing at just how unglamorous motherhood can be, when my husband walks in. I can still see that “Wow, she’s gone off the deep end this time” look on his face as he surveyed the scene and immediately left the room lol Thanks darling!
I didn’t try cloth diapers with my son, but I would really love to this time around. Even a mix of 1/2 cloth/ 1/2 disposable is a big help to the wallet and the earth.
One day i went to walmart,did my shopping and was standing at the cash register for check out.My son was sitting in the cart,still wearing diapers.All that sudden i hear something splatter.As I look at my son i realize that he is being out of his diaper and one of his pant legs.If there was a little mouse hole somewhere i would have disappeared in it in a split second lol.
It was suppose to be peeing not being
The first time I took my daughter to the pool, I used a regular diaper. I’ve never seen anything bloat up like that diaper did, the poor child could barely take a step. I learned my lesson that day and we use swimming diapers now!
I would love to win this for my new grandson due in sept.
This is the first child for my son and daughter in law, so they sure could use these.
My son when he was little was just learning how to potty train and he must have had to go so he took a plastic mountain dew bottle and needless to say used it so it earned the nick name mountain dew. He would be mad to know I told the story but if it wins him some much needed baby items he might forgive me. Thank you for giving me a chance to win.
Our daughter was potty training and just started wearing big girl pants. My elderly dad took her to church in which she wore a beautiful pink dress. He brought her home and had this horrified look on his face…Apparently they were in the front few pews when my daughter announced to the priest “look what i got”, flips up her dress…no undies lol
My little boy used to love having his diaper off, and would run wherever he could nakie, including outside around the house!
What a great way to save and help our planet!
The first time my five-year-old saw what her new baby could do in a diaper she said, “Whoa, that’s stinky.”
My baby’s not due until October, so I don’t have any good stories yet, but I’d sure like him to be wearing cloth diapers when these stories happen.
My son was at the store with me in the cart and he started yelling, “Mommy!” When I turned to see what was wrong, he had left me a present and stuck his hand in there to see what it was. Yuck!
Nothing is too funny at the moment with my 3 1/2 yr old boy not yet trained!
My daughter while on the toilet, fell asleep and then sadly fell into the toilet.
My husband has a very weak stomach and one day not too long ago, he caught a whiff of my daughter’s loaded diaper. He involuntarily gagged and my daughter first just stared, then she got a wicked grin on her face and backed up to give daddy a better whiff! And there I was worried that he’d hurt her feelings!
My 18 mo daughter and 21 mo old nephew were at the zoo recently when a large grizzly bear proceded to have a BM right in front of the viewing window – my nephew yelled, “bear poo poo” to which my daughter replied, “uh oh!” much to the crowds amusement….
When my son was first potty training he was afraid to go poo in the potty. He peed fine but when he had to poo he went right for a pull-up. Finally I hid the pull-ups from him and he grabbed a sanitary napkin and he used that to poo in. Needless to say that is the last time I hid his pull-ups.
WHEREEVER MY SON WENT HE HAD A SMALL TOY CAR/TRUCK IN HIS HAND. ONE DAY HE WAS SITTING ON THE BIG TOILET, WENT POTTY, WAS SO EXCITED HE WENT POTTY, GOT OFF THE TOILET TURNED AROUND, FLUSHED THE TOILET & I ASKED HIM WHERE IS CAR WENT. HE SAYS “BYE-BYE WITH POTTY”, THEN HE CAME TO THE REALIZATION OF WHAT HE DID, & STARTED CRYING WANTING ME TO GO FISHING—NOT HAPPENING
WE DID GET HIM A NEW ONE & HE UNDERSTOOD THAT HE HAD TO PUT THE TOY DOWN WHILE GOING POTTY.
My son was resistant to potty training. when he had a full diaper he would run away.
A friend of mine was a teenager and babysitting her baby sister. To her horror, the baby pooped in her cloth diaper. So she wouldn’t have to clean it, my friend stashed it under the rug. When her mother came home, she found it by stepping on the large squishy lump!
pick me
Soon after my son learned the proper name of his ‘boy part’ he said it super loudly in the middle of a store.. over and over again.
We were in the airport and I had to ask an airline stewardess to take my daughter to the ladies room.
Mine just started and will not go without daddy’s potty book.
We were potty training my youngest daughter and one morning at church someone “passed gas” and she loudly announces “pew..who pooped..it wasn’t me!!” :-}
My daughter hated diapers everytime we put one on she take one off…. But she didn’t like the toilet all scared of it!! Help!
Having a boy made me nervous because I was afraid of getting peed on. Managed to survive two days in the hospital after he was born. We took him home and the very first diaper I changed, I got sprayed! Then, a few days later, I was changing hid diaper, had a wipe over him to keep him from spraying me, and I got hit with mustardy poop! It wasn’t just a small poop, it had some force behind it and it sprayed all over my dress and the bedsheets!
my grandson sleep walked and used the trash can for a toilet!:(
My sister was changing my niece’s diaper. She set her glass of ice tea down on the floor-Poop dropped in her ice tea.
go green
for the first 6 weeks i was the diaper changer in the house. My husbands parents came for a visit right before I returned to work. My husband’s first diaper change was accompanied by dry heaving and a few chuckles from his father.
When my daughter was about 4 months old, I decided to try out a friends baby sling while I ran into a store. We had been in the store only two minutes when my little angel had a diaper explosion. It was everywhere. I quickly returned to my car where as a well prepared mother I had a change of clothes and diapers for my baby. The only thing I didn’t have was a change for me. So, clean baby and mommy covered in poop, we returned home.
When my son was first potty training he was afraid to go poo in the potty.