Whether you are expecting your first baby or your tenth, I am sure that you must already be aware that there are two distinct types of diapers in the world today.

One type is a very simple, three-panel rectangle of five to seven plies of soft, natural cotton and is readily available through a reputable cloth diaper service company like The Cotton Club.

The other is a complex combination of heavily treated paper pulp, polyethylene, glues, dyes, synthetic perfumes, and a super absorbent chemical, sodium polyacrylate, that absorbs urine and holds it in a "gel" next to your baby's skin.

We think that if you apply the same standards of comfort to your baby that you would for your own body, cotton has to be the obvious choice above synthetic single use diapers.

It's a matter of your baby's comfort and their health and the convenience of having your cloth diaper service deliver right to your door instead of running out in the middle of the night to get those single use, chemical laden, synthetic diapers.

The comfort is something you know about from your own clothing.

It stems both from cotton's soft touch on sensitive skin and from its breath-ability which ventilates the skin and helps evaporate the potentially irritating ammonia that starts to form as soon as a baby wets.

As for cotton's health for babies, it has thousands of years of history behind it.

Cotton is the fabric of choice for use directly on the skin.

Like its comfort, its natural absorbency is the polar opposite of the combination of paper pulp, plastics, and "super-absorbent" chemicals in disposables.