latkove plienky / washable nappies

Dnes mi prisiel katalog Green Baby – to je oblecenie a ine pre deti, tato firma podporuje pouzivanie organickych textilii a tiez organicku kozmetiku pre deti, cim v podstate prispieva k ich lepsej buducnosti. Citala som si v nom znova o probleme plienok a odpadu a napadlo ma, ze napisem o tom na blog.

Ked som prvy krat pocula napr. o bavlnenych plienkach, tak mi to prislo dost nechutne.. prat po decku okakane klasicke latkove plienky. Reakcia, “no fuj, vzivote...” Postupne som sa vsak dozvedela o nich viac, je okolo toho cely business – latkove plienky uz nie su len klasicke stvorcove, ale vyrabaju ich v tvare gatiek, v roznych hrubkach, z roznych materialov. Cim viac som o tom citala, tym viac sa mi zapacili a to, ze sme sa pre ne rozhodli, je najma z takeho eticko-ekologickeho hladiska. Po precitani roznych clankov o tom, ake su plenky obrovsky odpadovy (a praleso-niciaci) problem, mi prislo blbe z pohodlnosti pouzivat stale iba jednorazove plienky.

Preco sme kupili latkove plienky

(Niektore fakty z Green Baby)
Priemerna osoba vyhodi kazdych 7 tyzdnov odpad rovny svojej telesnej vahe.
V otazke odpadov su jednorazove plienky momentalne velkym problemom: za 2 a pol roka pouzivania jednorazovych plienok spotrebuje jedno dieta cca 1 tonu plienok.
Keby cele UK prestalo na rok pouzivat jednorazove plienky, usetrili by sa takmer 3 biliony plienok (ekvivalent 70.000 dvojposchodovych autobusov), ktore sa – podla niektorych odhadov, rozkladaju az 500 rokov.
UK vnima jednorazove plienky ako problem natolko, ze niektore mesta financne podporia rodiny, ktore sa rozhodnu pre latkove plienky (Belfast je v tomto samozrejme pozadu, ako vzdy :( ach jo)

Preco sme kupili plienky z bavlny Organic

Organicka = bavlna pestovana bez pesticidov alebo umelych hnojiv: lespie pre babo, lepsie pre prirodu :)

Drzim si teda palce (a aj Petre a Sandre, Katke, o ktorych zatial viem, ze by chceli tieto plienky tiez pouzivat)... plienky uz mame nakupene, uz len vzorne prat (samozrejme ekologickymi cisticmi...) a nezleniviet :)

Today as I read a text about environment and nappies in a catalogue called Green Baby (Organic baby clothing) I thought I could post something about our decision to use washable nappies.

When I first heard about washable nappies, the first picture in my mind was – must wash muslin squares filled with baby’s faecal ....shucks! Never! But then when I started to read more about these I found out that washable nappies does not need to be only muslin squares – there are loads of different kinds of nappies easy to use – they look like disposables and are similar system of use. Nowadays disposable nappies are a great environmental problem. I would like to bring up some of things I liked in the text about nappies in Green Baby:

An average person in UK throws away their body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks.

Disposable nappies are a big environmental problem: in 2 and half years a child produces approx. 1 tonne of disposables. If we all stopped (in UK) using disposables for a whole year we would save almost three billion nappies being thrown away, the weight of 70,000 double decker busses.

Some of the city councils in UK would support families (financially) to buy washable nappies. (Of course not Belfast Council... we are always a bit behind....)

We decided to buy washable nappies from organic cotton to help the nature, I believe it is better to our baby’s future, too.

Some of my preggy friends decided to use washable nappies as well, so GOOD LUCK. I wish us a lot of patience in laundering (and of course, don’t forget to use eko-friendly laundry products :) )

3d Hrasko

V nedelu sme sa vratili zo Slovenska, stravili sme tam vyse tyzdna. Fotky dodame neskor, zatial len jednu - nas velky zazitok; videli sme Hraska "nazivo". 3D ultrazvuk je celkom zaujimava vec (len trochu unavne, ak je babatko zle natocene a nevidno ho), som zvedava, ked porovname Hraskov ksichtik po narodeni, ci sa to bude podobat. Zatial kazdy, kto videl fotky, hovori, ze sa podoba na Jara. (bola totiz natocena z profilu hehe) :)

We have spent a week in Slovakia and later we will surely post some pictures. In this post we would like to share a great experience we had - we saw our baby girl in 3D ultrasound. It is not easy to get good pictures because if the baby is in a wrong position you can't see her face. We were trying hard and I think we achieved good results. A lot of people say that she is like Jaro, so we will see in June :)

tu sa vraj strasne podoba na Jara:

everyone says she looks like Jaro on this picture:

tu nieco screamuje, alebo asi zyva..

this picture seems to me like she is trying to tell us someting:

Mne sa najviac paci na tejto fotke. No, uvidime, co z toho bude, ked to bude.. az sa ocitne na vzduchu :) Ale kazdopadne musim povedat, ze sa mi tento 3D zazitok pacil.

I like this photo the best. Well, we will see how she really looks like when she appears "on air":) in June. But I have to say that it was a wonderful 3D experience and we really enjoyed being able to see her.