As you all know, I am a pretty big fan of the environment and all that goes along with that. I hug trees, rummage through the garbage to make sure that the last shred of recyclable material has been put into the appropriate tub, we drive a hybrid car, I bike to work, I save worms, and now that we can put food scraps in our yard waste the rummaging can go on for days. On my to do list prior to having the little people was to build a compost heap, still on the list, just below some other stuff. But I digress....
So diapers, these are somewhat the bane of the environmentalists existence, lets just face it there is nothing good about them. By their very nature they are designed to withstand degrading, which is pretty much the anti environment. Me being me, I have done research on this and basically came down with the following conclusion, there is no good answer. I found this interesting site while trying to figure out what to do. (http://www.perc.ca/waste-line/articles/diaper.html). Honestly I don't know how influence I would have over this decision anyway, Tracy was pretty insistent that we were using disposable, so there you go.
As a complete aside, I also came across this http://www.ilea.org/lcas/hocking1994.html - which basically calculated how many times you have to reuse a reusable cup to make it better for the environment. Honestly, what did people do before the internet?
So back to diapers. At the end of the day I have come to the decision that you have to use something. This obvious conclusion came into very clear focus one day when I was trying to sooth a crying Owen. Let me set the stage:
It was about two weeks into being a dad and about two days into being back in our recently renovated house, the nursery is newly painted, the changing table is nicely set-up, the carpet is new, I think that you get the picture. So I am there changing Owen and he is having a massive sense of humor failure. I have this vague recollection of some telling me that 'babies like to be close to your skin', so I think this sounds like a good idea, Owen has just peed and pooed, this is going to be great bonding time. So I proceed to hold Owen's naked body against me and in no more then 30 secs he power shits all over me, somehow managing to shit all over of my stomach, on my shirt and down onto my pants, the impressive thing is not that he got it all over me, but he also managed to hit the changing table, all down the front of the dresser (of course drawers were open) and the floor, please keep in mind that at this point the kid only weighs about 6lbs, he must have shat about 20% of his body weight. Ironically, Tracy then walked into the nursery to change Ava and seemed to take tremendous pleasure that I was covered in baby poo. As she was changing Ava, somehow Ava managed to pee all over Tracy :-) So after this experience I have decided that diapers are a good idea.
There are really not very many baby pix that one can post relating to this topic, but I am obligated by our families to post some pictures on every entry:
So diapers, these are somewhat the bane of the environmentalists existence, lets just face it there is nothing good about them. By their very nature they are designed to withstand degrading, which is pretty much the anti environment. Me being me, I have done research on this and basically came down with the following conclusion, there is no good answer. I found this interesting site while trying to figure out what to do. (http://www.perc.ca/waste-line/articles/diaper.html). Honestly I don't know how influence I would have over this decision anyway, Tracy was pretty insistent that we were using disposable, so there you go.
As a complete aside, I also came across this http://www.ilea.org/lcas/hocking1994.html - which basically calculated how many times you have to reuse a reusable cup to make it better for the environment. Honestly, what did people do before the internet?
So back to diapers. At the end of the day I have come to the decision that you have to use something. This obvious conclusion came into very clear focus one day when I was trying to sooth a crying Owen. Let me set the stage:
It was about two weeks into being a dad and about two days into being back in our recently renovated house, the nursery is newly painted, the changing table is nicely set-up, the carpet is new, I think that you get the picture. So I am there changing Owen and he is having a massive sense of humor failure. I have this vague recollection of some telling me that 'babies like to be close to your skin', so I think this sounds like a good idea, Owen has just peed and pooed, this is going to be great bonding time. So I proceed to hold Owen's naked body against me and in no more then 30 secs he power shits all over me, somehow managing to shit all over of my stomach, on my shirt and down onto my pants, the impressive thing is not that he got it all over me, but he also managed to hit the changing table, all down the front of the dresser (of course drawers were open) and the floor, please keep in mind that at this point the kid only weighs about 6lbs, he must have shat about 20% of his body weight. Ironically, Tracy then walked into the nursery to change Ava and seemed to take tremendous pleasure that I was covered in baby poo. As she was changing Ava, somehow Ava managed to pee all over Tracy :-) So after this experience I have decided that diapers are a good idea.
There are really not very many baby pix that one can post relating to this topic, but I am obligated by our families to post some pictures on every entry:
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