Going green?

Swap out the Pampers Swaddlers size 1 baby diapers in any of our diaper cakes for Blue Penguin cloth diapers. Simply choose the diaper cake you want to order and add it to your cart. Then add one of the following cloth sets to your cart: The ultra cute and popular Fitted & All-In-One Cloth Set (click here to view), or a cheaper (but still high-quality made-in-the-USA cotton) Prefold Cloth Diapers Set (click here to view). The fitted and all-in-one set includes: 6 small cotton fitted diapers with snaps, 2 small pull-on snap-off chenille diaper covers, and 3 medium different colored SposoEasy with snaps All-In-One diaper covers. The prefold cloth set includes: 6 small pre-fold cotton snap diapers and 3 small pull-on snap-off diaper covers of different colors. Cloth diapers should last about 200 + washes, so although they are an upfront investment, they can save money in the long run. Visit www.BluePenguin.biz to find out more specific information on the cloth diapers.

If you are interested in eco-friendly cloth diapers to be used on your custom diaper cake, please go to our Contact Us page or email Admin@TheDiaperBakery.com and include the following information in the message box, and we will email you a quote within 24 hours:

1. What type of cloth diapers you want used, i.e. fitted, all-in-ones, prefolds, and diaper covers. Price will vary greatly depending on your selection. Visit www.BluePenguin.biz to view all made in the USA premium cloth diapers styles, colors, and sizes needed and we will purchase them for you and insert them into your custom diaper cake.
2. How many diapers and diaper inserts/covers you want used. Example: If you select 9 fitted diapers and 2 chenille diaper covers, and a four tier cake, we will fill the rest of the layers with blankets and other baby accessories.
3. Whether you want the cake to be made with blankets or ribbon wrapped around the tiers.
4. What the theme of the cake will be: Elmo, Baby Gund, and Soccer are some examples. If desired, request all ingredients to be eco-friendly products.
5. If the cake is for a baby shower gift, baby shower centerpiece, holiday gifts for new babies, taking the cake to the hospital for a new baby gift, just because gift, etc...
6. Tell us the day you will need to have the cake by.
7. Tell us if the cake if for a boy, a girl, or neutral.
8. The color scheme you would like the cake to be decorated with.
9. Note: We hand-deliver to the Southwest Orlando, FL area. All other areas we ship cake orders via UPS.

Why choose cloth diapers? (Information is from www.BluePenguin.biz)

• Babies diapered in cloth diapers typically become potty trained as much as six to eight months earlier than babies diapered in single-use diapers.  This is because the chemical gel in the "disposables" creates an illusion of dryness and comfort for the baby.  Even though the baby's most delicate area is surrounded by urine or feces (see above, "diaper rash"), the baby is comfortable, so s/he does not know when a toilet is needed.

• Economically, using cloth diapers is like buying a home, using "disposables" is like renting: you are simply putting your dollars in corporate pockets.  If you've invested in cloth diapers they are yours. You have equity!  You can use the diapers again and again and then you can sell them, recycle them as rags, pass them along to other parents or donate them to a shelter.  On top of that, the upfront investment will very likely cost you no more than single-use diapers, and will probably cost less.

• Environmentally, even taking into account the energy required to wash and dry them, cloth diapers are the better choice.  An average American baby will use around 8,000 single-use diapers in its infancy.  More than 20 billion of these go into our landfills each year, costing the U.S. more than $350, 000,000.  The number of trees and the amount of plastic used to manufacture single-use diapers is mind-boggling, as is the money spent on their advertising and promotion.

• The incidence of diaper rash drops to roughly 7% with cloth diapers, and climbs to 61% with single-use diapers. Your baby is more comfortable and less likely to develop infections.  When baby is wet or dirty, s/he will let you know so that you will change the diaper often enough to prevent the diaper rash from developing.

• Physiological development is not affected by the diaper. There are on-going studies to determine if an increase in male infertility is linked to the use of "disposable" diapers, whose air-tight plastic layer holds in heat, causing body temperature to rise more than is healthy.