Just reliable
studies on cloth diapers and the implications for your baby.
Not exact matches
And I'm also reluctant to believe a 20 - year - old
study put out by the paper industry
on the harmful effects of
cloth.
An article
on the environmental impact of the production and disposal of millions of plastic and
cloth diapers reveals the length to which corporations will go to ensure profit margins: couching advertisements in «scientific
studies»; funding
studies based
on controversial methodologies; using unscientific statistical
studies to cook the books
on cost - benefit analyses of environmental damage; and employing shrewd, manipulative and effective public - relations strategies.
Although there are no recent estimates
on the number of U.S. parents who choose disposable or
cloth diapers,
studies from the 1990s found that about 95 percent of American parents choose disposable diapers over reusable ones.
A
study co-ordinated by the UK Environment Agency shows that disposable diapers have no greater impact
on the environment than
cloth diapers (visit: http://www.nappyinformationservice.co.uk/environment.htm).
«For reusable
cloth nappies the
study states «The baseline scenario based
on average washer and drier use produced a global warming impact of approximately 570 kg of carbon dioxide equivalents.»
With the possible exception of the fact that
cloth diapered babies potty train earlier and the link between potty training after 32 months and urge incontinence, NO long term
studies have concluded that
cloth diapering is going to have any detectable benefit
on the development of your child (before you go off
on the scrotal temp thing make a note that I'll get to it).
And although my mother is a weaver and spins silky
cloths and wears flowing dresses, she is the one who gives me sailing textbooks and makes me
study water safety and weather prediction and says things like «Yes, Sophie, I taught you to sail, but that doesn't mean I like the idea of you being out there alone
on the water.
Most debut fiction titles first appear
on bookstore shelves as a
cloth bound hardcover with a dust jacket — likewise for debut titles in the history, biography, science, and social
studies genres.
All My Love All My Love (2015) reflects
on artificial surrogates or «technologies of love,» from the
cloth and wire «mothers» that American psychologist Harry Harlow gave to baby monkeys in his famous
studies on attachment in the 1950s to a dancing female robot recently developed in Japan.
Bourgeois did not spring from whole
cloth, of course (she
studied with Fernand Léger, was a docent at the Louvre, spent time in Moscow, and
on), and the influence of her mentors and the artists she rubbed up against is palpable here.
And while there isn't any evidence it's actually bad for your baby — outside of some inconclusive - but - still - worrying
studies that diapers may be linked to asthma — some parents may err
on the side of caution, especially with the other benefits
cloth diapers provide.