Moms Share Why They Choose Cloth Diapers

Everyone has their own reasons why they choose to diaper their children in reusable diapers. In many countries reasons range from cultural practice to the fact that disposable diapers are a luxury item.
 
For those in North America where reusable diapers are quickly on the rise but still the rare choice there are many reasons they choose cloth diapers.
 
Recently during a Lil Helper Facebook party we asked moms to share why they choose cloth diapers and here is what they had to say:
 

Financial Savings

We started out just to save money. We had two children then a third surprise, so finding ways to save a little extra was our main concern. But I have to say after researching all about cloth vs. disposables and how easy it really was I wish I would have started with my first child, never to late though. ~ Kelli Colenutt-Attenborough, Facebook Fan

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Retailer SpotLight: Diaper-eez

diaper-eez toronto storeShopping online is great but when you want to use your senses it helps to have a local shop to browse. One of those local shops is Diaper-eez where you’ll find an entire selection of products for the natural family including Lil Helper Cloth Diapers.
 
Diaper-eez is known for their knowledge and customer service when it comes to confused parents that are overwhelmed by the options and “you should” comments from friends, family and internet forums. They also offer daily diaper talks to answer any and all questions parents have when it comes to cloth diapering their newborn or toddler.
 
For the nursing mum you’ll be glad to know they are breastfeeding friendly with a comfortable nursing lounge, bra fittings and private changing room. No, the nursing lounge is not the changing room – and they’ll never ask a nursing mum to retreat into the changing rooms.
 

Diaper-eez
2309 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario Canada

 
Check Diaper-eez out today to see the Lil Helper cloth diapers and accessories up close and in person!
 

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Why We Won’t Donate Cloth Diapers To Africa

Best Cloth Diapers TorontoThe purpose of starting Lil Helper Cloth Diapers was to promote the use of more sustainable diapering practices. In conjunction with that, our mission with Baby Do Good is to give 1 brand new cloth diaper to a family in need for every 3 cloth diapers we sell.

 

We decided that we would limit these cloth diaper donations to the USA & Canada only. More than knowing where we wanted our “donated” diapers to land, we know where we don’t want them to go.

 

We don’t want our donated cloth diapers to go to Africa or Asia.

 

These are the reasons that support our decision.

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Giving Diapers, Giving Hope Donation

Recently because of amazing customers like you and wonderful retailers like Diaper-eez, Lil Helper was able to send twenty brand new cloth diapers to a non-profit organization providing diapers to families in need.

 

Giving Diapers, Giving Hope is a charity based in Massachusetts providing families throughout the United States diapers for their little ones. Because of this organization well over 70 families no longer have to make the choice between having their child sit in a dirty diaper and placing food on the table.

 

Diapers for Giving Diapers, Giving Hope


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Lil Helper Invites You to Party

This Thursday March 29th, 2012 we will be having a Facebook party on our Facebook wall. To join in all you have to do is participate by leaving comments, remarks, answers to questions, etc on our wall.

Join Our Cloth Diaper Facebook Party

What? You aren’t a fan of us on Facebook yet well let’s get that fixed right away! Simply head over to Facebook and click that fun little thumbs up like button!

 

Party officially starts at 9pm EST and will last for approximately an hour or longer depending on how chatty we all get. You know when moms and dads start talking cute little bums the conversation can last into the wee hours of the morning!

 

Yes, there will be chances to win prizes for those that are in attendance – so be there don’t be square!

 

This event is not sponsored or endorsed by Facebook. We just had to say that…no really we did.

 

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The Day I Decided To Be ‘Actively’ Happy

During my last visit to Mumbai, India (October 2010), I was trying to find an organization that would be willing to accept cloth diapers generated through Lil Helper and the Baby Do Good project. I asked around and someone suggested I go to Asha Daan, an orphanage run by nuns from the Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa. Asha means hope in Hindi and Daan means charity.

 
I have lived the first 19 years of my life in Mumbai and had faint memories of Asha Daan from my childhood. My dad would occasionally drop off wheat and rice there. I had never ventured past the gates. 

My young self had naively imagined that Asha Daan would be abound with street urchins. This was the image of orphanages I had painted in my mind. Oliver Twist and Bollywood flicks mainly fueled this illusion.

Asha Daan Charity Missionary Orphanage

Asha Daan- An orphanage managed by the Missionary of Charity

 
Innocent? Ignorant? Maybe both.
 

My youngest brother, Mustanshir, and my cousin, Fatema, accompanied me to Asha Daan. As soon as we entered through the gates of the orphanage, a kid, 9 or 10 years of age, approached us with a toothy smile and cheerfulness that could perhaps only be achieved if you’d give up reading the newspaper. He readily introduced himself as Ravi.

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Made in China! Not so simple.

We are often asked by our customers about the origins of our bamboo cloth diapers or where our baby products are manufactured.
 

The short answer? Made In China.

 

Call a child "Piao Liang" (Beautiful) in China. The parents will smile like they won a million dollar lottery

Here’s the long answer for folks who are a tad bit more curious about why we chose to make our products in China. Nader & I started the design process for our diaper in early 2009 with the intention of making the diapers in Canada.

We made a few hundred diapers locally in Toronto, Canada. All the raw materials and supplies were bought locally and we got our diapers manufactured in front of us.
  The cost of production was too restrictive. The high cost of our initial product was also preventing us from donating one brand new cloth diaper to a family in need for every three diapers we sold- a mission that was more essential to our venture than the business plan itself.

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Two new blog reviews

We have two blog reviews of Lil Helper and our diapers- the first post is by Maria Moser at change-diapers.com, and the second post is by Lisa Day at thisandthatday.blogspot.com/. Check them out!

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Trials and tribulations

Going back to the countless hours spent with our amazing design team, developing the lilhelper diaper from the initial phases to our current design was an adventure in itself. Hundreds of ideas were thrown around- and as engineers, we have to say that creative thinking is one of our strong suits. We had come up with unique concepts such as putting a moisture sensor in the diaper to detect diaper change times, to experimenting with all sorts of absorbent materials to see which outperforms what is currently on the market. It’s probably for the best that we don’t have a picture of our first model,the hybrid “Mark1″. Here we were experimenting with an idea using a detachable plastic insert cradle, and a cotton outer shell. An absorbent liner, either flushable or non, would be placed into the cradle creating a fitting shell. This diaper didn’t have the look or function that we were after, and was abandoned as a result. Never ones to sit idle, we went back to the drawing board and finally arrived at our close to final and final designs, the Mark2 and Mark3. We took all the best features from the first phase, managing to keep the concept of the detachable insert, but modified things so that we now could provide a small liner for the smaller diaper sizes and a large liner for the bigger ones. Giving the option to use both liners together for that extra absorbency was something we really felt was important to incorporate here.

Our first prototype of the dual liner concept, Mark2.




From the outside, with our logo heat transferred to the cover, Mark2.




This is just one of the many features we introduced, and in the final Mark3, we simply just improved the materials used and the overall looks of the diaper.

Our original PUL diaper, with the old label design, Mark3.




The label on this version was converted to the horizontal, organic cotton label we have on all of our latest diapers.

Our latest original PUL diaper.




Just take a look though the site to get the best understanding possible of what all the features are, and we are so totally confident that you will be satisfied with what we have on offer, that if you have any complaints, just let us know and we’ll do whatever is required to address your concerns.

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Site Launch

For those that may have missed it- we have launched our site and have some wonderful new diapers available. And what an interesting ride this has been over the past couple years putting lil helper together. Never in our wildest imagination did we think it would be so difficult and time consuming to perfect something such as a diaper design.

Right now though, we’re pretty proud of where we are, and hope you think so too. Take a browse through our site, and hopefully you will find our story a bit interesting, and get curious about some of the products after reading the descriptions.

We’re still in the embryonic phase with this venture, and have a ton to learn. One thing we strive for is a complete commitment to making you, the customer, happy.

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