The Modern Cloth Nappy Revolution!

Introducing Eco Bums - The Cloth Nappy Library

Eco Bums The Cloth Nappy Library came about due to the frustration of too much choice when it came to choosing types and brands of modern cloth nappies on the market.

Exploring MCN’s (Modern Cloth Nappies) can be a daunting experience. There are so many brands and styles on the market to choose from that it can be difficult to know where to start.

That’s where Eco Bums come in!

They have sourced what they believe to be the best that the market has to offer and packed them into kits for you to hire. By hiring out a kit of nappies you can use the different types at home and decide what suits you and your baby best. All brands in the pack are also available to purchase.

And what's even better than 'trying before you buy'? Thanks to a partnership with KESAB environmental solutions and Zero Waste SA, Eco Bums are now working together to demonstrate the environmental benefits of using cloth nappies via a subsidy program for their Eco Bums Hire Pack. The cloth nappy ‘library’ scheme will be subsidised by KESAB for a two-week trial. The first 375 people to register will receive a subsidy of $40 – all you pay is $20 for a two week hire period.

“This is a great incentive for parents to try cloth nappies to see if it suits them and their baby. The environmental and financial benefits are significant,” says Grace Barila, Special Environmental Projects Coordinator at KESAB environmental solutions.

“We have come a long way with recycling in South Australia (leading the nation) but there is much more we can do as a community by recognising some of the nontraditional throw away and disposable items currently buried in landfill.

“This project is about changing family awareness and understanding by using alternatives encouraging avoidance – but with minimal impact on family life style. And it helps the environment along the way,” Ms Barila said.

Advantages of “new age” cloth nappies have come a long way since terry towelling squares. Modern versions are more absorbent, less bulky, easy to wash, and are just as easy to use as disposables – are fashionable and they look great!

DEMONSTRATIONS: As part of the Nappy Library service, Eco Bums provides nappy demonstrations anywhere in Adelaide. Grab some friends or get together with your mother’s group or play group and arrange a time – Dad’s are welcome too!

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Colour by Number

As seen in SA Kids: July/August

All kids come up with random comments – my son Logan recently told me that penguins and turtles aren’t overly different (and what on earth do you say to that, other than penguins don’t having shells and turtles don’t have wings?) Most of the time their randomness is just word-vomit, a wave of thoughts rolling through their minds that are verbalised without much structure. I’m guilty of this even as a grown up!

One night a couple of months ago, I was standing in the kitchen getting dinner organised. Logan was sitting at the kitchen bench doing his homework when he asked me one of his usually random (and occasionally annoying) questions:

“Mummy, what’s your favourite number?” he said. “It’s five mate, why’s that?” I replied. He put his hand up to his chin as if he was thinking seriously. “Well, that would make sense then because your favourite colour is red,” he eventually says.

At this point I put down the knife and looked at him. I wasn’t sure if I had heard right, so I asked him to repeat it. He repeated himself, with attitude, as if something was wrong with my hearing. I was confused. I mean, what the hell does the number five have to do with colour red?

It took me a couple of seconds to piece together what he said, and he then began to tell me about the colours that appear in his head when he thinks/reads about things. This was the beginning of something amazing – learning something new about my big boy (who at seven I thought I knew pretty well).

I remembered from a few years before that a friend mentioned she had Synesthesia. This meant she linked letters and numbers to colours. As soon as my husband walked into the room, I asked Logan to relay the conversation. He was surprised too. Once Logan was in bed that evening, we got the laptop out and looked it up. We looked up ways of testing to make sure it wasn’t a fluke (or that he wasn’t faking it!). He passed. We did the same tests a few weeks later and he passed again.

We’ve since discovered Logan doesn’t just match letters and numbers with colours, but whole words and music. This is a whole new avenue for us to tap-in to, to help his unique brain develop to its best potential. And thanks to his doctor, we’ve got a great deal of support to help nurture this side of his creativity and intellect!

The past couple of years for him have been tough. He is on the Autism spectrum and since he was diagnosed he’s often been singled out, he’s had problems fitting in at school and he’s been anxious about things. Yet as soon as he started talking about seeing colours, a little spark has come back into his eyes that we haven’t seen in awhile. While Synesthesia may make him a little bit different, it’s made me understand him a whole lot more.

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