We cleverly design all our organic baby clothes to be a bit wider round the hips and with a 3D fit from front to back. This means that they fit over cloth nappies and disposables alike, and give your little one room to wriggle around freely! And that goes for all our clothes from newborn to three years cheeky...Phew!!
The main reason for this is that Lucy & Kurt really struggled to find clothes to fit over cloth nappies when they had their son Tom. We don't really like the idea of other parents having the same problem...and we'd hate to think of parents giving up on cloth nappies because they couldn't find clothes to fit!! We love cloth nappies because they're so fluffy and cute, and of course they're better for our lovely planet too...so we want to help make life easier for all those people using them :)
Here's just a few reasons why we love cloth nappies so much...
They are better for the environment..
Real nappies can be up to 40% better for the environment than disposables.
They call them disposable nappies......never was a product so inappropriately named! You can't flush or compost them, they fill up landfills - where they remain for up to 500 years. It's a frightening fact that every ‘disposable’ nappy that has ever been made is still sitting, intact, in a landfill somewhere.
Britain throws away 8 million nappies A DAY! That is 3 billion a year! They make up 4% of all the UK's household rubbish - and 50% of all the rubbish in a one-baby family. Not only that, 5 million trees are felled every year just to keep UK babies in disposable nappies.
Disposables use..
3.5 times more energy than cloth nappies
8 times more non-renewable resources
90 Times more renewable resources
60 times more solid waste than washable nappies
On top of that the raw sewage that leaks from the disposable nappies in landfill sites can contain potentially harmful viruses and may result in the contamination of groundwater and soil..
Much kinder on your pocket!
For every £1 spent on disposables, it costs the taxpayer 10p to dispose of them! The total national cost of this is £40 million a year. Disposables come with a birth to potty price tag of up to £1200, that is based on average nappy use being 2.5 years. Even when laundry costs are factored in, a cloth nappy system will cost you approximately £400 from birth to potty. That's a saving of up to £800!!! These savings are also increased when you use the same nappies on a second or even third child.