Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~ Dr Seuss, The Lorax

It’s Convenient

We bring the diapers directly to you, relieving you of the need to run to the store for diapers.

Cloth diapering is easier than ever.  We know parents really don’t want to do any of the rinsing or shaking and we don’t ask you to.  All you need to do is drop the diaper in the hamper bag we provide and leave it out for pickup weekly.

We offer a partial cloth and disposable service. If your child attends a day care that mandates the use of disposables we will bring them in the weekly rounds with your cloth diapers.  

It Costs Less

Cottontails delivery service costs less than purchasing disposables.

The average child in cloth diapers is potty trained 6 months earlier than children in disposables. This translates to fewer diapers purchased. The charts below both translate into 2.5 years of diaper cost.

Disposable	Length of time in size	Changes per day	Diapers Used	Cost per Change	Total Cost
New Born	2 Weeks	12 to 16	196 36 in package 6 packs used	0.28	$60.48
Size 1	10 Weeks	10 to 12	770 84 in package 10 packs used	0.27	$226.80
Size 2	12 Weeks	10 to 12	924 72 in package 13 packs used	0.29	$271.44
Size 3	12 Weeks	8 to 10	756 66 in package 12 packs used	0.31	$254.52
Size 4	12 Weeks	6 to 8	588 50 in package 12 packs used	0.42	$252.00
Size 5	24 Weeks	6 to 8	1,176 46 in package 26 packs used	0.46	$550.00
Size 6	58 Weeks	6 to 8	2,842 48 in package 60 packs used	0.46	$1.325
$2,940.04

Prices for disposable diapers were reached by averaging the cost of 3 leading brands from 2 nationwide discount chains in Atlanta. 6/4/2010

Cloth Diapers	Covers	Total Cost Prefolds	Total Cost Contoured
3 months at 80 diapers	$2 weekly fees	$240.00	$264.00
9 months at 70 diapers	$2 weekly fees	$702.00	$258.00
18 months at 60 diapers	$2 weekly fees	$912.00	$1,512.00
		$1,854.00	$2,034.00

For Your Baby's Health

Did you know that an estimated 78% of today’s babies and toddlers have diaper rash? Interestingly enough, in the 50’s, prior to the arrival of disposables, that number was estimated to be 7%.

On average, children are potty trained up to 6 months sooner as a result of being able to feel the wetness in their diapers. With this feeling they develop the awareness and desire to graduate from diapering all together. Not only does this also help your wallet, child led potty training is, as you can imagine, much easier than the alternative.

A single disposable diaper contains up to 60 different chemicals, all kept closest to your baby's most sensitive areas. There are numerous studies that link the chemicals used to produce disposables diapers to an endless list of health issues. A few examples include:

• Dioxin:  Dioxin is used in the paper bleaching process and is listed by the EPA as the most toxic of cancer related chemicals. Disposables contain trace amounts of it. Would you believe dioxin is outlawed in many countries, but not the US? It’s true.

• Sodium Polyacrlate: This is the super absorbent powder added to the center of the diaper that turns to gel as your baby uses the bathroom. It is commonly referred to as SAP (super absorbent polymer). Ladies may know that SAP was banned from tampons due to links to toxic shock syndrome. This chemical can cause skin irritations and severe allergic reactions including vomiting, staph infections, and fever.

• Tributyl-tin (TBT): This extremely toxic pollutant is used as a fungicide. It spreads through the skin and can, in the smallest of concentrations, affect the endocrine glands, upsetting the hormone levels in the pituitary, gonad and thyroid glands. Large doses of TBT have been shown to damage the reproductive and central nervous systems, bone structure, and the gastrointestinal tract of mammals.
  
  

For The Environment

Studies show that it can take an estimated 250 to 500 years for a disposable diaper to decompose. That means EVERY disposable diaper ever used is still in a landfill. In just one year, according to the Sustainability Institute, 80% of the diaperings in the US are done with disposables. This comes out to 18 BILLION diapers, in the US alone, added to dumps every year.

It takes 3.5 times more energy and 8.3 times more non-renewable materials to produce disposable diapers than cotton diapers.

Using cloth is the only sustainable solution to diapering.  To produce disposables for one child for one year production will require over 300 lbs. of wood, 420 gallons of petroleum and generate one ton of garbage.
The environmental impact on the land required for every baby each year from the production to the disposal of the 3 diapering options breaks down as such

Source: Best Foot Forward

Support Local Business

Your choice to support Cottontails diaper service not only directly benefits the global community by using a sustainable form of diapering, it also contributes to our local community. We are a local employer and use the maximum number of local suppliers. Your money stays in our local economy benefiting our communities and neighbors. Any other type of single-use diaper funnels money out of our state and does little to benefit our community.