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Cotton Tales

Better for your baby.  Better for your planet. Better for your bottom line. 
 | Phone: 318.349.2187 |  alan@louisianacottontails.com

 

 

An article in the Shreveport Times recently stated that we took Elias home from the hospital in a disposable. That is not the case. Eli was first brought to us from the nursery in a disposable, but that is the only disposable he has ever worn. Please read our first installation of "Cotton Tales" to find out more about our cloth diapering experiences at the hospital.

CottonTails Diaper Service, the Shreveport-Bossier area's only cloth diaper service and headquarters, is now open for business!
We are thrilled that we are changing the way area parents diaper their babies, one bottom at a time!!!!

Why we chose cloth.
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Elias in a prefold with a Snappi fastener. A Thirsties Wrap is ready underneath to go on top.

Every year, 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills where they slowly decompose for up to 500 years.

Every week, parents literally throw away $18-25 on disposable diapers.

Every day, most babies spend 23 hours in disposable diapers—paper underwear lined with petroleum-based synthetics and chemicals like sodium polyacralate.

When we learned that we would be parents for the first time, like many new parents we threw ourselves into research. Obviously, the first line of research began with how to provide the healthiest possible environment for mother and child. As reality sank in, the question of costs, both literal and figurative, inevitably arose. The two concerns met, literally, at the bottom line… diapers.

For the reasons stated above and many others found on this site, we chose to use cloth diapers. We can’t imagine why any parent who knows the facts would not want to do the same.

Our service will provide you and your baby with a weekly supply of clean, natural cloth prefold diapers, along with everything else you need. Our cleaning process--using an Energy Star-certified, NSF-certified, large-capacity, high temperature washer and bleach-free, dye-free detergents recommended by the RDIA--will ensure the best possible diapering solution for both your baby and your planet.

Every single clean diaper you receive weekly will have gone through our hands. If we wouldn’t put it on our baby, we wouldn’t want you to put it on yours, and each week we send one of our diapers to an independent lab to ensure that it is in compliance with the highest diaper industry standards.

We are proud members of the following organizations:

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Our son Elias was born at 8:43am on June 3, 2010. Since that time, he has used one disposable diaper. The number of cloth diapers he has used and the number of resources he has conserved by not using disposables follow* .
(up to date as of July 3, 2010)
Number of months since birth
1
Number of disposables used
1
Number of cloth diapers used
426
Pounds of plastic conserved
3.88
Gallons of oil conserved
.24
Pounds of chlorine conserved
3.4
Pounds of wood pulp conserved
42.6
Price of equivalent number of Pampers Swaddlers from diapers.com
$134.90
*The resources conserved are based on numbers available at http://www.realdiaperassociation.org/. Information on the price of Pampers can be found following the table on our Services page.

CottonTails Diaper Service, LLC * Shreveport, LA  71104 * Phone: (318) 349-2187 * alan@louisianacottontails.com