There has been so much going on in my personal life lately that I haven’t been online as much but I couldn’t miss the opportunity to take part of the Cloth Diaper Carnival (VI) hosted by Dirty Diaper Laundry!  With Kim’s wonderful campaign and our many voices I am confident that we can….and will…

GET CLOTH DIAPERS ON THE ELLEN SHOW!

And you can participate too.  All you have to do is write a blog post, link your post below using McLinky, and tweet a link to your post on Twitter using @TheEllenShow #operationflully and #clothdiapers in the tweet.  For example: @TheEllenShow you should see how cute my baby looks in #clothdiapers #operationfluffy!

Operation Fluffy actually began last night during our weekly cloth diaper chats on Twitter (which if you don’t chat with us…you are missing a lot of fun!) when hundreds of tweets went out to The Ellen Show.  We plan to continue Operation Fluffy until Ellen helps us laugh, dance, conquer!  You can read the rest of the plans of Operation Fluffy on the Dirty Diaper Laundryblog…there will be videos, pictures, blogging and so much more!  We really want to get Ellen’s attention. 

So who’s with me?  Do you want to get cloth diapers featured on The Ellen Show?  Write your own letter to Ellen telling her why you love cloth diapers and want them on her show. 

Here is my letter:

Dearest Ellen,

You can call us what you like but here are just a few titles that we are known as; mom, mommy bloggers, wives, sisters, daughters, caregivers, dads (yes there are dads in the revolution too), housekeepers, professionals, stay-at-home parents, working parents, environmentalists and revolutionists (to name just a few)!  We have all made a commitment to our children when we decided to use cloth diapers instead of disposable diapers…a commitment to our childrens health, the environment, and our bank accounts.

Did you know that disposable diapers contain toxins and carcinogens like Tributyl-tin (TBT) and Sodium Polyacrylate? These are known to cause cancer, skin irritations, and allergic reactions (including staph infections)?  Cloth diapers are much healthier for our babies and cause much fewer diaper rashes than disposable diapers.

Did you know that the average baby uses 6,000-9,000 disposable diapers in the first 3 years of life?  At an average of $65 a month that is $2340 over those same 3 years spend on disposable diapers alone.  That doesn’t include diaper wipes and diaper cream to cure diaper rashes.  Cloth diapers range in price (depending on the type) from $300-1000 for a stash of 24-36 diapers and when your baby is out of diapers you can resell them.  Cloth diapers can be reused over and over again saving you a ton of money.

Did you know that it could take anywhere from 250-500 years for disposable diapers to decompose in a landfill?  Did you know that disposable diapers use twice as much water as cloth diaper; and that’s mostly in manufacturing.  Over 27 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year.  Cloth diapers are much better for the environment and will reduce our children’s butt-print (carbon footprint) significantly. 

I want to see cloth diapers on The Ellen Show because the only way to change a diaper is one baby at a time and if you could help us reach just one more family than Operation Fluffy will be a success. 

We are your fans and we look forward to meeting you and showing off our babies adorable fluffy butts.  I’m sure you would fall in love with all of them…especially this one…

Much love and and lots of dancing,

The Eco Chic and family 

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Anyone want to know how we travel with our cloth diapers?  This is probably our BIGGEST challenge.  We have spent a week in New Orleans, a week at Disney, and several short trips…without our cloth diapers.  I haven’t figured out a way to make it work on long trips at hotels.  Why?

1.  We fly A LOT since hubby works for the airlines.  We are very limited to what we can carry with us.

2.  We tend to stay in hotels where we don’t have access to washing machines.

3.  We have a 6 yr old also and don’t like to stop for much on our trips. 

So when we fly and stay in hotels on our vacations we take disposables with us.  It kills me to leave our stash behind but it’s the most practical option for us at this time.  We did however take our diapers with us last weekend on our trip to Georgia.  Luckily we were only going for 2 days, we were driving, and we were staying with family.  That made all of our challenges much easier.  I thought my dear hubby was going to object at first but to my surprise HE wanted to take them with us.  (*Happy Diaper Dance*)  So we packed up our truck with all our million things that babies require and off we went.  We didn’t have any problems at all.  His mom was wonderful with the diapers; I gave her a brief intro and then we left for the day!  (We went to see a college football game – without the kids – GO DAWGS!)  Since we were only gone for the weekend we didn’t even do laundry until we came home.  I don’t have a large wetbag though…guess I need to go shopping…so we packed up the dirties in a trash bag for the ride home. 

In the future I may try some other options while traveling.  I just received a box of GroBaby BioSoakers (their disposable inserts) to try.  Of course hubby wasn’t all that impressed with them out of the box.  He didn’t understand why they were any different from disposables.  (Don’t worry…I’ll explain it all to him <and you> in a future post!)  Another option is one that Kim at Dirty Diaper Laundry tried in Vegas…she signed up with a diaper service while traveling.  What a great idea!  To make that work I guess I would need to get some covers; I don’t have any of those either…since I don’t use prefolds.

What about you?  Do you travel with your cloth?  I’d love to hear your story!  You can also follow the rest of the Cloth Diaper Carnival by visiting Dirty Diaper Laundry.  She has a great McKLinky at the bottom of her traveling post.

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