Five Tips to Encourage Your Baby's Care Providers to Use Cloth Diapers

As a cloth diapering working parent, you may often have to leave your baby in the care of others while you go to work. Whether this is a day care center or the grandparents’ home, children of working parents are often tended to by other care providers and some of them may not be open to using cloth diapers. One of the reasons daycare centers and elders in the family may be resistant to cloth diapering is because it is considered inconvenient and time-consuming. However, here are tips to encourage your baby’s care providers to use cloth diapers easily and without any trouble:

Educate Care Providers About Cloth Diapers

More often than not, care providers are resistant to cloth diapering because they equate it with constant diaper changes, stinky diapers and more. By showing them modern cloth diapers, like the bumGenius and educating them about how simple and easy it is to use, you will be able to get more willingness from them.

Make Cloth Diapering Easy for Care Providers

Make using cloth diapers super easy for care providers by choosing all-in-ones that care providers can simply remove and put in the wet bag. Provide a sufficient stash of changes so that care providers don’t have to empty out a soiled diaper. Also, provide a wet bag and other supplies to make diapering simple and easy for a grandparent or a daycare nanny.

Demonstrate Cloth Diapering

Sometimes, care providers are resistant to using cloth diapers because they aren’t really sure of how to use them. By showing them a demonstration with either the bumGenius or Flip diapers, you can help them see that using cloth diapers is as easy as using disposable diapers.

Have a Trial Period with Cloth Diapers

Finally be open to discussing a trial period with your care providers for using cloth diapers. Let them experiment with using cloth diapers for a week to ten days before giving their final decision. Should they still want to use disposables, ask if they’d be open to using cloth diapers along with a disposable. Basically, be flexible and open to options and make things easy and stress-free for everyone. Using cloth diapers when you’re a working parent and have to leave your little one in day care or with a grandparent or nanny can be tough. But with a bit if foresight, planning and education, you may be able to win over resistance and make cloth diapering easy for everyone. Have questions about cloth diapering? Ask the Diaper Guru or join the Smart Baby community on Facebook.