Haven't seen these yet...but we got to feeling guilty using disposables (500 years for one to break down in a landfill!!) so, we found mother nature's diaper service (www.mothernaturesdiapers.com)
its comparable to buying disposables, they rent you a hamper, and they wash them. pick up once a week. we've been very pleased with the service overall and our son likes them. no pins, you just have a velcro cover which works fine. and we do disposables for travel. check it out!
K

What does it mean that you can flush the liner? What's it made of? Does it then completely biodegrade, or does it get pulled out at the city's sewage treatment facility? If it doesn't biodegrade, it still qualifies as solid waste and will likely end up in a landfill or in an incinerator, albeit by a different route. Solids like that can't be treated into non-existence even at state-of-the-art plants.

We did cloth at home (with a diaper service) and disposable on the road. Not a perfect answer -- both have negative environmental impacts -- but short of telling our little fellow to quit shitting, it was the compromise we could best live with.

i have been trying to make gdiapers work for a little over 2 months now and am about to give up. the idea is great, the insert is very flushable and there is no smell of diapers in the house or nursery, in addition to the environmental benefits. but there are 3 parts to the diapers: the pants, the plastic liner for the pants, and the flushable insert. the plastic liner and the pants are washable, but just about every time, my baby leaks onto both parts. i don't so much mind the laundry, but having to put a whole new diaper set together every change is a pretty big pain!

tragic, b/c i love the idea and the adorable pants!

meg, you got me thinking. Way can't they (or do they?) make pads with wings for babies? Couldn't you just change the special made pad (I'm thinking feminine pads aren't thick enough?) and use regular undies? I'm not a parent so it could be a ridiculous idea (if so, be kind).

I use cloth diapers and launder them myself. It is not really that much more work, and these G-diapers just seem silly to me. They are the same price as buying diapers, if not more expensive, and I'd still have to do diaper laundry anyway.

Opinionated,

My son, like most babies no doubt, is super wiggly. Just imagine trying to keep them on their backs and still when you are removing their underwear to replace the winged pad without getting solid stuff all over their legs? That wouldn't work.

We use cloth and gDiapers and really love them. They are a little pricey, but what is the cost when one compares it to the environmental savings? gDiapers will not only decompose in my lifetime, but within 50 to 150 days. I would have to say that they are a little more work than traditional disposables and less work than cloth.

opinionated -- (sorry for the delay!) -- wings are a good thought, and my baby is not particularly wiggly on the changing table (yet!), but what really burns me about the gdiapers is when they not only leak through all 3 parts, but then onto the outfit. so then i have to assemble a whole new gdiaper and get out a new outfit. i'm not sure wings would adequately protect the outfit. but, like with most baby stuff, what might not work for me might work for someone else, so what i think they need is to try a variety of things so that i could buy the wing kind and shannon could stick to her traditional ones. or whatever.

meg

I tried G diapers and I did not like them. I had no way to change the baby next to the toilet, so I had to balance the crappy mess somewhere and hope junior didn't stick her foot in it. Also, the pants did not fit well and were quite bulky--baby seemed uncomfortable, and they are a lot to fit under clothes. I guess we were spoiled on thin pampers. I wish Pampers were flushable!

I don't see whats new about these...

The last time I worked in a baby store (20 years ago) you have disposables and you had terry nappies - the terry nappies were used in this way:

you folded up the terry nappy making it as big or as small as you needed for your particular baby and lined it with a nappy liner (a thin sheet of fabric-like paper) and then pinned it on to the baby - you then pulled on a pair of plastic pants to stop any leakages

when it came time to change the baby the solid matter was in the liner which could just be dumped (either in the trash or down the loo) - you then washed the terry part and only changed the plastic pant if the liquid had soaked right through

when did people stop doing this???

I had diaper service for two babies in the early years, there is less landfill debris, though I question how the delivery truck envirionmental damage compares. Cloth diapers eventually were not up to the job and rash was a problem and I switched to plain old grocery store disposables. Once I was at State perusing the patent books and there are an astonishing number of patents on diapers, It appeared that corporations had departments of inventors and legions of patent attorneys to coral all possible permutations of diapers. If the demand is for environmenal ones they will build them.

I live in a solar and wind powered house in southern colorado. I have tried to use products that are biodegradable and safe for my land. I have been using gDiapers for about 2 months and I think they are fabulous. I calculated what my child's foot print on the earth at 6 MONTHS old and it was somewhere around 1 hectare. Thats crazy. I think if everyone could start using some other method other than disposables we could reduce our children's foot prints. Also, teach them to be aware of the things they just "throw away". This diapers are SO easy to use. I was using a cloth diaper service but was unhappy with the stinky pail and waiting a week for pick up. I also wasn't happy that if we were out I had to carry around a stinky cloth diaper until we got home. With gDiapers I can flush them at any restroom. For parents who like disposables but are earth wise these are a good choice.

I bought these diapers yesterday and LOVE them. I have sewn my own cloth diapers already. I decided to try these after reading on their web site that you can use cloth inserts with them! So while we are at home. I use cloth inserts. While out, I just use the disposable inserts so that I dont have to carry a dirt diaper around. It ends up being less to wash also. Another thing to mention as far as leaks go, watching the video about how to put them on really helps!