Product Description

Diaper pant colors may vary. For the last 40 years there have been but two choices in diapers. Cloth or disposable. Thats it. Now gDiapers offers a third option. Flushable. gDiapers puts waste where it belongs, in the toilet. Not the landfill. gDiapers have no elemental chlorine, no perfumes, no smell, no garbage and no guilt. In fact, flushables are so gentle on the Earth you can even garden compost the wet ones in one compost cycle, approximately 50 150 days. Just think of the standing ovation youll get from the planet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27167 in Health and Beauty
• Brand: gDiapers
• Ingredients: gDiapers Starter Kits contain 2 'little g' pants and 10 flushable refills just enough to introduce you to the gDiapers system. Our 'little g' pants are made of water resistant, machine washable, breathable material to keep wetness away and prevent diaper rash. Each pair of 'little g' pants comes with a spare snap in liner, so you can wash the 'little gs' a little less. If you are ready to jump right into the gDiaper system, two Starter Kits ensures you will have 4 pairs of 'little g' pants f

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Customer Reviews

I LOVE gDiapers!
I have been using gDiapers on my baby for well over a year now. I think they are the greatest invention for babies and the earth. First off, let me say, I have read the reviews about clogs and I did get one myself in the beginning, BUT I've learned how to flush them so they don't clog. And when I told the company that the diapers had clogged my toilet they called me to find out all the what, where's, and why's about it and reimbursed my plumbing bill with product (which was all the same to me because I was determined to keep using them either way). But their personal touch and kindness helped me to believe even more in the company.

Anyway, I decided to just toss the inserts instead of flush them, since they are biodegradable and tossing them is still way better than tossing a plastic disposable that will sit around with baby excrement in it for the next 5 centuries. That visual doesn't sit well with me. Anyway, then I read a tip on the gDiaper yahoo group (yep, there is one) which told me how to open the flushable part up in a way that once all the inner core fell out you were just left with one long strip of paper, and to flush it by holding one end until the last minute, so that it goes down like a strip and not a wad. I think my plumbing is part new and part old, the house is very old. My plumber told me not to flush them anymore, but once I adopted this new way of flushing I've never had an issue. For over a year! Even at grandma's house, who's pipes have tree roots, we can get away with this method. But even if you don't want to risk it, you can just flush the inner part and toss the outer part. (This may sound confusing if you've never see the insert, but not once you have one in your hand). That is what is going to cause a clog if anything would. And tossing that is like tossing a paper towel. Not much waste and it will break down. And is so worth not going back to disposables for.

There is a learning curve to these diapers and you have to be committed to it in order to make it work. I have a lot of friends who tried and lost interest because it wasn't as easy as disposables. I find that silly because once you decide in your mind that you aren't going to pollute the earth with disposable diapers and you commit to something better, there is no choice and it does become simple. But I use cloth diapers too, so this feels like a way easier method.

I never feel put out using these diapers. I love that my baby can wear something that won't be a harmful impact on the earth. They are cute, breathable (no diaper rash), and so much healthier for baby and planet. A huge bonus is that there is no yucky diaper pail to empty either. And poop goes down the toilet, not in a landfill. I see people all the time wad up a poopy disposable and toss the whole yucky muffin in the trash. It grosses me out. I'd rather get my hands a little dirty and put the poop where it belongs. Geez, you can wash your hands after. That's what soap is for.

If we want change and want to improve our earth's situation we have to stop going for what's easiest and go for what's best. And once you get the hang of these, they are easy. As for the washing, it's no big deal to rinse off the liners and wash the covers. Babies get everything dirty, what's a couple of covers? And if you use cloth diapers anyway, like I do, you are used to it.

I couldn't recommend these higher. Check out the website, that's what convinced me to give them a try. www.gdiapers.com There is so much more info that I don't have room for here. How they are made, the entire greenness of the company, the circle of life of the flushable part, how they are made, and even their cradle to cradle award. SO much care is put into making these diapers safe, natural, and gentle on the earth.

Realize that the people that poo poo them, are giving up way too easily. These diapers rock!

Like a diaper version of a Prius with the after-market plug-in upgrade
I love these diapers (though like any product, of course there is room for improvement - and the folks at gDiapers recognize this and is constantly working to improve them, great customer service too!). We have been using them on our 8 week old son since he was 8 days old (had to wait for his umbilical stump to fall off as the top of the diaper covered the stump). We've had fewer leaks with them than we had with our firstborn, who was exclusively in disposable diapers.

What makes these diapers so unique is that they are truly a "third option" in the disposable or cloth debate. You can use them as advertised and put a flushable insert in them, but you also have the option of putting cloth there instead and having a 100% cloth diaper with a pretty cute cover to boot. I love them even just as cloth diaper covers because the snap-in liner really keeps the laundry load down - since my little one isn't yet mobile enough to make a mess of his clothes, I don't need to wash the cover at every diaper change like some other cloth options require. The cover doesn't automatically come in contact with urine or feces because the snap-in liner contains it very well if they're put on correctly (even with exclusive breastfeeding liquid poop). There's a bit of a learning curve with them to get a leak-free seal, but I had way more leaks and blow-outs with my first in his regular disposables than I have had with the new baby in gDiapers.

As for the liners, they can be an issue if your sewer line has issues (we found out the hard way that we had tree roots in our sewer line). The gDiapers website DOES warn people about this in their FAQ section (there are also a lot of helpful tips and even videos to help learn how to use the diapers there - fantastic website, and they also sell colors of covers there that are unavailable anywhere else).

What is working for our family is we use a cloth "diaper doubler" inside the little g pants at home while a parent is awake to change the diapers, a flushable at night for now because we trust the absorbency more, and flushables exclusively while we're out and about since I can't be trusted to remember to take a wet cloth diaper out of my bag and put it in the laundry after being out with two little ones. I've had no trouble flushing them in public toilets but I do put them in a ziplock bag to dispose of at home if I'm visiting someone's home and they're not comfortable with me trying to flush one in their toilet (I live in an area full of pre-WWII homes on tree-lined streets so tree roots in sewers are fairly common here). We compost our wet ones in a composter in the back (keeping them in a coffee can in the bathroom to minimize trips out to the compost bin) and since we have sewer issues we have a friend with more composting experience and knowledge about composting "humanure" (that's the term for it - go google it ;) ) who takes the poop ones (mostly you have to be sure your compost is getting hot enough to kill any bacteria that may be present, but it's not recommended to try unless you really read up on it and know what you're doing and are willing to take the extra steps/time to make it safe).

There is also a fantastic group of fans of the product on a Yahoo Group (it's linked off the top of the gDiapers website) - discussions are often off-topic (recent conversations have been on anything from composting to circumcision to birth options) but they're very quick to help anyone with questions, which is nice to have in addition to the wonderful folks at "gHQ" - questions about leaks and other issues frequently get answered within a few minutes on the email list which is nice when it's after business hours and the nice gHQ people are spending some time with their own families.

I never thought I'd be such a fan of a diaper, or that a diaper could change my family's life, but this one has. Our serious composting friend gave us our compost bin as a baby gift when she heard about the diapers and knew we were using them, and that's had a ripple effect through the rest of our daily lives and eco-consciousness.

Finally, environmentaly friendly Diapers!
We were searching for an environmentaly friendly option for diapering our baby and are thrilled with gdiapers. They are easy to use and totally flushable. I highly reccomend having at 4-6 diaper covers because newborns aren't known for tidy diapers, and they need to be washed frequently. The gdiaper website has LOTS of helpful tips for making these work for you. If you don't want to flush them, they will biodegrade so much faster in the trash than disposables, so feel free to trash them. They are a bit messy, and diaper changes can take a little longer, but it's a small price to pay. They also tend to be more bulky than disposables (but probably not more than cloth) so clothes don't fit the same. I would highly reccomend this product!