This post was written in response to questions over at The Mommy Blog and is cross-posted here with permission.
Emily of Mommy Made Green had the following questions to kick off this wool segment: “”The one area of cloth diapering I haven’t tried yet is wool, I would love to learn more about wool. What are [...]

Using cloth diapers will save thousands of dollars over the 2-3 years of your baby’s diapering phase. Getting started doesn’t have to be expensive. Avoid purchasing everything your baby will need from birth to potty learning at the very beginning. Buy only what you need for the current stage of your baby (or newborn if [...]

Yesterday, we (RDA) received notification that we weren’t invited to submit a full grant proposal for a grant for which we had submitted a letter of inquiry. I spent a few hours sobbing over tea and some overly sweet cookies. Okay, I didn’t do that, but I was pretty bummed – I had thought we [...]

Thanks to all who participated – the photo contest was a huge success! We had lots of high-quality entries – – look to see some of the photos appearing in our materials in the coming year!
Huge thanks also to our sponsors, who are providing all of the prizes for this contest!! We had [...]

I attended the Real Diaper Industry Association annual meetings last week in Las Vegas. So many great interactions over a single day and a half that I’m buried with follow-ups and motivated such that I can hardly sit still and want to work on all our prospects at the same time. But I’m [...]

One of the 2010 Real Diaper Association annual goals was to update our research related to diapering. Our Diaper Facts page continues to be the most frequently accessed page on our site, and I am proud that it is the most thorough, and thoroughly-cited, compilation of research on cloth diapers out there. But it [...]

Happy anniversary to the Real Diaper Association!
Where do we grow from here?
When Real Diaper Association launched our website six years ago today, we had big dreams of spreading our passion for babies in cloth diapers. We were going to have Real Diaper Circles in every state reaching out to talk to thousands of families face [...]

When working a cloth diaper outreach booth at a fair, people immediately touch the diapers and ask about how they work. After I’ve explained the cloth diaper equation (all diapers need two things – moisture absorbency + moisture resistance) and shown them a few different diapers, they dive into the next question, “so, how [...]

Editor’s Introduction: The cloth diaper movement is a big one, and there are a lot of areas to pursue in getting cloth diapers onto more babies.  Recently, momentum has developed around getting hospitals to use cloth diapers on newborns, thus introducing the idea to parents right in their baby’s first days.  It would send a [...]

Finding good daycare for your children is hard. You want to find one with a similar approach to caring for your child, experience in handling a broad range of children and problems, and staffed by people you trust to take a major role in your child’s daily life. Hearing Marisa L. Tobey, owner of [...]