All About G Diapers

Danielle responded to my inquiry regarding G Diapers, & for your convenience I've recopied it into a blog posting...

G Diapers, an Experience Story from Danielle:

G diapers are made up of a cloth exterior called "little g pants", a waterproof and breathable liner and an absorbent inner liner. The absorbent liner is flushable, compostable and tossable. I choose to throw them in the garbage because I do not trust my toilet. G diapers break down in 50-150 days whereas conventional diapers are estimated to take approximately 500 years, possibly more. If you choose to flush, you must tear open the absorbent liner and allow the inner core to fall into the toilet. You then stir with the swishstick (included in your starter kit). Once the flushable inner liner has broken apart, flush the toilet, then throw in the rest of the flushable inner liner. My sister-in-law has flushed and said it works really well. She was very surprised at how well the inner layer broke down. Keep in mind that you can only compost wet flushables. Toss or flush the poopy ones.

I love g diapers. I think they are adorable and I love that they are enviromentally friendly. Everything in the flushable inner liner gets reabsorbed into the earth in a neutral or positive way. The little g pants come in orange and cream in the starter packs, but there are tons of pretty colors available to purchase seperately. The initial start up cost is expensive [FYI from Crystal - not expensive compared to cloth diaper route]. The starter kit sells at London Drugs for $36.99, but often goes on sale for $29.99. It includes 2 little g pants, 10 flushable absorbent liners and a swishstick. I recommend having at least 4 little g pants, so you could either purchase 2 starter kits or buy the fancier little g pants seperately. The flushable refills are a few dollars more than conventional diapers, but I think it's money well spent. Lakelyn has not had any trace of diaper rash since we switched.

It's very sad to try and picture how many diapers end up in landfills. How many do you go through in a day? A month? In a child's lifetime? How much space would they occupy? Would it fill a room in your house? Your whole house? More? Now imagine all of the diapers in the world. Try to picture that huge mountain of diapers that is not going to go anywhere anytime soon. It's actually pretty shocking.

Like all products, g diapers are not perfect. Because the flushable, absorbent liner just sits in the water proof liner, it can bunch up, which can lead to leaks. This is why I recommend having 4 little g pants. That way you shouldn't have to do laundry every single day. On average, I would say that we experience a leak once every 4 or 5 days. Poop gets on the waterproof liner more often than that, but you just rinse it and hang it to dry. G diapers recommends having your extra little g pants preloaded with the flushable liners to make changing fast and easy. I agree. When I'm out and about I always carry an extra preloaded g diaper, a few extra flushable, absorbent inner liners and a big ziploc bag, in case we experience a leak. Here's a brief summary.

PROS-Flushable/Compostable/Tossable-g diapers are absorbed back into the earth in a neutral or positive way-break down in 50-150 days so they are not filling up landfills like conventional diapers-breathable which means less diaper rash or no diaper rash-adorable, little g pants are available in many colors-guilt free

CONS-start up is quite expensive-flushable refills are a little more expensive than conventional diapers-flushable absorbent layer just sits in waterproof liner and sometimes bunches up, causing leaks (Although I should note that conventional diapers can leak too.)-have to launder dirty and wet little g pants therefore g diapers are slightly more work than conventional diapers

Like I said, I love g diapers! I highly recommend spending the extra money and trying them. BTW, according to the website, g diapers are available at 5 stores in Red Deer. They are London Drugs, Baby-Pops Inc, Highway to Health Inc, Hap-E Bab-E and Nutter's Bulk #3.

I also had lunch with Danielle yesterday so I got her to show me the diapers in person. They look great & simple to use so I am really excited and want to try them. I talked about & showed them to Tyler today (via the website's videos) and he agrees that they sound good. So we are going to be a G Diaper Family!