Price and Convenience Determine Your Choice of Newborn Diapers

Mothers, exercise your power and privilege as your family’s Chief Domestic Officer: Declare you choose newborn diapers strictly according to price and your own convenience.

If you are expecting your first child, you have nine months to study-up, learning vital information and taking principled stands on infancy’s hot-button controversies—cloth versus disposable, and breast versus bottle.  You have pored over the hundreds of websites offering advice, resources, referrals, and discounts to expectant parents, devoting extra attention to online “parent communities,” where you  see the two factions in the two debates forcefully advocating their cases.  Prepare to be amazed at the depth of their research, the scientific precision of their data, the sophistication of their arguments, and the passion in their delivery.  Reading some analysis and commentary, you feel the heat sizzling through the fiber-optic cables as green crusaders call you to action. 

Newborn diapers and the baby’s first two or three months run by their own rules.  During your pregnancy, you have the luxury of principled decisions, conscientious choices, sustained reflection, and perfect logic. Once your baby arrives, you suddenly discover how much you love sleep, because you get very little of it.  You suddenly realize how N-SAID pain relievers really are wonder drugs, because you take quite a few of them to ease the pain of recovery.  And you suddenly prize any and every product that saves a step, a lift, a moment, a dollar, or any of those other little things you took for granted before baby’s debut.   You also may reminisce about “the good old days,” when you thought you had energy and stamina enough to sustain your principles while you gave your baby exemplary care, affection, and love. 

Your research has shown your options for newborn baby diapers.  You  have discovered how fierce corporate rivalry between Kimberly-Clark and Procter and Gamble works to your advantage, because they frequently offer the nation’s largest retailers “host buys,” enabling them to sell Huggies or Pampers and Luvs from excellent online retailers to offer free shipping and larger lot diaper bails you will not find in supermarkets.  Especially while newborn diapers fit your baby, and the baby uses a dozen diapers every twenty-four hours, you ought singly to set aside your scruples and go for the savings.  You are, after all, honoring the decision-making principles you put into effect.

As you worked your way up and over the expectant parent’s learning curve, you may have found a few online vendors and neighborhood baby boutiques selling flushable, compostable, all natural, chlorine-free newborn diapers at prices close to the big commercial brands.  Exercise a little caution about diaper manufacturers’ claims for their earth-friendly newborn diapers, because you find discrepancies.  One fervently green manufacturer’s website headline proclaims “100% as absorbent as old-fashioned disposables!”  Because old-fashioned disposables have extra-absorbent wicking strips, their absorbency has become the benchmark.  The technical data, however, reports between 60% and 70% absorbency—still perfectly respectable in the absence of high-absorbency strips made from volatile organic chemicals—but not quite worthy of an exclamation point.  Among earth-conscious diaper manufacturers you will discover perfect correspondence between pure and pristine materials and jaw-dropping high prices.  One manufacturer who uses organically grown wood products from Scandinavian family farms charges nearly as much for a dozen newborn diapers as not-so-choosy American manufacturers charge for fifty or sixty of their “just okay” diapers.

Your executive mother-powers derive from your superior wisdom, the natural product of labor and delivery.  Deciding on newborn diapers and all things baby-related, flex that hard-won power, helping the baby’s father and the baby understand how, if mom is not happy, no one is happy.

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