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A post-DivaCup Cup giveaway!

DivaCup month

cups A post DivaCup Cup giveaway!

has come and gone (to judge by our sales, many of you fence sitters are well on your way to Divadom; let us know how it goes!), but have no fear… we are kicking off June with a silicone cup giveaway nevertheless. In this case, they’re awesome food storage containers for kids that are good for everything from freezers to microwaves, and free of nasty BPAs, phthalates and lead. They’re soft, cute, and would be a handy addition to your kitchen!

They’ve been donated by local Mompreneur Sue Sinclair, founder of Raspberry Kids, a hand-picked collection of “fresh, healthy and fun” things for kids – think top quality toys, clothing, books and accessories. I love Sue’s story of how and why she started the business – it’s amazing how often necessity becomes the proverbial “Mother of Invention” in the case of entrepreneurs I know. Want to stock up on stuff for your kids, or gifts for design-savvy pals? Use  promo code “lunapads15″ at the Raspberry Kids site during checkout to receive 15% off orders. Valid on all items except electronic gift cards, sale items and the Vapur bundle.

We’ve noticed that many of our customers “make the switch” to Lunapads and the DivaCup when they have kids, which brings me to how you can have a chance to win this wonderful product. Moms, how did having a baby precipitate greener lifestyle changes for you? What changes do you feel made the biggest difference? The winner will be announced in our July newsletter – good luck!

Oh – and one more thing: for those of you on Facebook, Sue is co-hosting (along with New & Green Diaper‘s Karen Randall) an awesome event this Thursday June 3rd from 6:30 to 8:30pm PST. Check out the “Must Haves for New Moms” event for great conversation, tips and prizes (we’re feeling generous too, hint) – see you there, we hope!

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  • http://Www.accidentalpharmacist.com Kelly

    I cloth diapered and realized cleaning poop was far grosser than menstrual blood – especially someone else’s. Far, far grosser but still no big deal. I was sold on reusable menstrual products.

  • Traci

    Just planning to get pregnant got me thinking a lot more about what I put into my body, which continued throughout my pregnancies. Breastfeeding my little ones, I knew exactly where their safe food was coming from and it really gave me an aversion to the over processed foods we’ve come to regard as common. Now as they’re getting older, we’re enjoying making our typical suburban home morph into an urban homestead. We’ve put in a little pond, we compost and recycle and have started gardening. I’m still trying to talk my hubby into some chickens ;) We’re examining all areas of our lives where small actions, while not dramatically changing our lives, could lend to dramatic change. It is a fun process and I love what I’m teaching my boys!

  • Dawn

    I cloth diapered, chose to breastfeed (less containers to recycle, less wasting water for cleaning bottles and adding to powder), chose co-sleeping so less trees to be cut down for crib manufacturing, buy used clothing, cook from scratch (less packaging to throw away)
    I found that taking that ‘green’ step was not that big of a deal for me to make, so many things came almost easier. Cloth diapering for example was so easy…never having to run out to the store to buy more disposables when you run out, no heavy stinky garbages to take out to the dumpster. It was just so easy to throw a load in the washer and have clean diapers in no time.

  • Marie

    For me the birth of my daughter was like a new awakening. I started to pay more attention to what actions I have been taking as we every action literally will be affecting future generations. I always knew I wanted to cloth diaper her, but I now look at the ingredients in my food, cleaning products (now just Dr. Bronners, baking soda and vinegar). I want a happier, healthier and more sustainable future. One with less disease, mutations, garbag.

    My house in 1/4 in a row with children under 2 years old, and the Moms look at me like I am crazy when I am hanging the diapers on the line, I can’t help but feel this knot in my stomach every time I see the huge bags of disposable diapers…they tell me they don’t know how I can do it. Simple, saves money, less stinky in my opinion than disposables, healthier for my daughter, for the Earth, for everyone in general.

    As for cleaning…the chemicals, I just can’t get started on this one, this post is too long as it is. But I don’t want to be putting poison on my counters and floor any longer. We walk, breath, live in our houses. Our home should not have poison in them when it is not needed.

    When I was 17 I bought my first Diva Cup, when I realized my daughter is more comfortable in cloth diapers I decided that I will make the switch to cloth pads. Not only are they much more sustainable but I don’t want the landfills having unneeded waste, for our Earth’s resources to be depleted, and to have the chemicals on my skin on such a natural period of our cycles. Heck! I use my daughters cloth wipes as toilet paper when I urinate now! Why not?

    Why not make the switch?! It is easy, cheaper, and healthier! We don’t even put one grocery store bag of garbag out a week, how wonderful is that!?

    My diet has changed. I now eat only organic foods, shop at small not chain stores, and I am now a vegetarian teetering on vegan. All you have to do is watch “Food Inc” and that should be enough to wake one up. But meat, especially beef, is one of the biggest culprits to the carbon emissions! The average American east 220 pounds of meat a year!

    My daughter has been the best thing to ever happen to me, and she will make the change, I have, others can to. I am happier, healthier and feel so much better about myself as a being.

  • Marie

    Oh yes, a continuation of my way to long post, but we also Co Sleep, my husband has a wonderful organic veggie garden, and we have 2 composts. I also breastfeed, I can imagine the extra work that bottle feeding must create as when I pump it seems like so so much work to sterilize! A note on breastfeeding, just the way my daughter reacts to certain foods I eat out has been a huge awakening. I can eat anything with MSG as she gets MISERABLE! Caffeine too, I not longer even have a regular mug of tea a day. Cloth diapers as mentioned previously have kept down carbon emissions for those trips to the grocery store. We walk or bike everywhere, I can’t be bothered with transit-she doesn’t enjoy it and neither do I so we take nice long walks multiple times a week. I had so many aversions to processed foods in my pregnancy, morning (what I called baby sickness as it was all day, every day) sickness up until the day she was delivered. I wonder now if she was telling me something from the womb?

    Anyway…this is a very passionate topic for me. I will leave this now…Thanks for reading and bring up this topic :D

  • Arwen

    I am definitely more conscious of the earth I’m leaving for my kids: have gone towards car sharing, biking, walking, growing food, diaper service, vinegar and baking soda and lemon cleaning solutions, etc.

  • Anna

    I knew I’d breastfeed. My mom breastfed, she was breastfed, all my aunts breastfed their kids (and their sister’s kids). I’ve always recycled and also composted when I got the chance. My city has a composting program which is wonderful. They even compost disposable diapers.

    I wanted to cloth diaper my oldest, but was talked out of it by my mom who had a horrible experience with cloth diapering us. I finally did it when he turned 2. Noone thought it would last but I hate the smell of disposables and love how soft cloth diapers are. I wear cotton underwear, why shouldn’t he?

    Which got me thinking about how awful disposable pads feel. If my baby deserves to have soft cotton against his tender parts, don’t I? So I got some lunapads. After using those for awhile, I got brave and decided to try out the diva cup my mom gave me years earlier. I’d had a bad experience with an Instead cup getting stuck up there but the fact that the Diva cup didn’t go in so far made me feel better. By the second cycle, I loved it. I would smile every time I walked past the menstrual product aisle.

    I try really hard not to produce waste. We make very little garbage and I’m trying to cut down on the amount of recycling. I don’t want my children to live surrounded by our garbage.

    I also became very sensitive to chemicals during my first pregnancy. The sensitivity hasn’t gone away.

  • Aimee

    We decided to cloth diaper our first, primarily for cost reasons. He was a year old and I’d had my periods back for a few months when I suddenly smacked myself on the head one day. I felt such a hypocrite – here I was buying disposable pads for me and yet taking such care of the environment and my little guy’s skin. I researched cloth pads and started using Lunapads the very next cycle. And boy, were they a far cry from the ones I’d made myself out of old towels and grocery bags as an enterprising 12 year old!

  • Christi

    I decided to make the switch to Lunapads after making the decision to cloth diaper my first baby. After researching how easy it was to use cloth diapers and the environmental impact that disposables leave on our planet I knew I had to consider mama cloth. I then discovered all the many benefits of cloth, not to mention the sheer comfort!!

  • Stacey

    Yeah I switched after I had my daughter. I ec’d her with cloth diapers too, and it just made sense that I should switch too. I wanted to show her proper behavior from the start and my partner did too. I stopped wearing make-up because my partner mentioned that it might make her think I didn’t really believe I was beautiful and since she looks like me, that she’s not beautiful. We’ve changed a lot in our lives, because you can lie to yourself, but you can’t lie to a child. They won’t let you. Excuses don’t cut it with them.

  • May

    Prior to having my 22 month son, I was not very “green” I would recycle when I could and didn’t quite understand to the whole organic craze. As soon as he got here though and I started to realize all the waste he was producing and how precious he was I wanted to do whatever I could to protect him.

    I learned about cloth diapers before he got here so I was prepared with those. I tried just about all of them until I found a favorite. He’s in gDiapers now with gCloth inserts.

    I also struggled with breastfeeding in the beginning to the point of tears but I was determined to never feed him formula. I’m proud to say he was exclusively breastfed until he was 8 months and old and we continued breastfeeding until he was 21 months. :) :)

    We also as a family now eat only organic when we can.

    I also switched to using a diva cup. Although I haven’t tried luna pads my sister has quite a few and loves them. Pads aren’t for me during my regular period but I definitely plan on getting them post-next baby :)

    My son really made me into this happy, crazy “green” person. There are times when my friends will make fun of me for carrying a water bottle around until I can find a place to recycle it. But any “inconvenience” is worth it now to make a better planet and future for my son.

  • Aman

    I am an avid recycler to the point my husband gets annoyed :) and since the birth of my daughter I realized I wanted to further reduce my global footprint so she can enjoy our planet when she gets older. Recently, I came across Lunapads, and as I already clean “leaks”, I figured, what the heck, what’s the difference between that and re-usable.

  • Christy

    I began going green when I breastfed all my children! It’s all natural, organic, eco-friendly, and free! I became greener when we started cloth diapering. I was surprised at how super easy it was. We throw away so much less and save so much money! My next step is to use a diva cup or lunapads… or both? Im not sure yet.

  • Bree

    Having a baby didn’t really make me decide to go green, we were already headed that way. Cloth diapers just seemed like a no-brainer with the cost and hassle (taking out all that garbage) of disposables. Not to mention the couple of times we’ve used disposables they always leaked and I ended up having to do extra laundry anyway. I happened to discover cloth pads at the same time and didn’t switch because of the cost or environmental factors, but because disposable pads make me itchy. Cloth pads are soooooo much nicer. And breast-feeding is totally the lazy mommy way to feed a kid. You don’t have to wash up bottles, you never have to worry about getting things to the right temperature, running out, or having to pack a bunch of supplies when you go out. That it happens to be environmentally sound is a nice side effect, but mostly it just made my life easier. And in addition to being free food, it’s also a free weight-loss program! What is there not to love about that?

    I think the biggest thing we’ve learned in the last little while is that being green can actually be cheaper, easier, have nice side benefits (cloth diapers are less leaky, cloth menstrual pads aren’t itchy and breast-feeding was the easiest diet I’ve ever done) and more convenient than the mainstream alternative. Going green doesn’t mean going without.