WebSite Launch!

We couldn't be happier to announce the beginning of something great. With incredible diligence, design work, and collaboration my husband has taken Mother Herb to the next step in its growth towards fruition.... OUR WEBSITE! We invite you to explore, and make Mother Herb a part of your family.

Gentle on the Environment and Your Pocketbook

Here's some great cost analysis from a diaper service based in the Hudson Valley. Turns out we can be stewards of the earth and save money at the same time!

Mainstream Diapering is GOING GREEN

It's an exciting time. Finally a trend that can feed style and fashion as well as serve to better our environment! Cloth diapering is gaining more attention and glory as we are finally figuring out better ways to improve upon the long-standing tradition of the past (cloth diapering) to make it more functional, easy, and successful. Mother Herb Diaper Service aims to provide that same ease with our system of high quality hemp/cotton blend diapers and wool wrap covers to make your diapering experience not only good for you but good for the environment.

TIME Magazine put out an article on Jan 21, 2008 that speaks to this trend and its savings to your pocketbook as well as the Earth.
Read the article here.

Don't Green Wash your Holidays

If the spirit moves you to look at the holidays this year through eco-colored glasses, why not go green beyond just how you shop or create gifts. Here are a couple of resources for Recycling your Christmas Trees or how to Green Your Menorah. Even if you aren't celebrating either of those specific holidays, you might get some ideas or at least your creative juices flowing through surfing the web on this topic.

Healthy Toys this Holiday Season

Dangerous chemicals like lead and arsenic are not healthy for anyone, especially for developing children. Yet, when the Ecology Center, a Michigan-based nonprofit, tested over 1,500 popular children's toys for lead, cadmium, arsenic, PVC and other harmful chemicals, they found that one in three toys tested were found to contain "medium" or "high" levels of chemicals of concern.

Let's make sure the toys that are purchased this season are safe and healthy for our children. Please take a look at the information that MomsRising has collected to help clarify and to share the message with others.

What's In Your Milk?

Most of us are familiar with the "rBGH free" stamp of approval on a variety of dairy products we see while shopping. Curious to know more facts about what that really means? Take a quick look at the Cancer Prevention Coalition feature article about Samuel S. Epstein's new book exposing industry and government cover-ups on the DANGERS of Genetically Modified Milk consumption. I whole heartedly agree with the idea of cancer prevention as opposed to the model of "finding a cure."

How It All Works

Like all good things it has taken time to figure out how this eco-friendly service will come to fruition, and part of that includes not only all the "Mother Herb Basics" listed to the right, but also what our customers will do to aid in that sustenance.

AT HOME ORIENTATION: Upon agreement of our service, I will personally come to your home and give you an orientation on the service. How to fold your diapers (for a boy or girl), use (or no use) of snappy diaper pins, how often to change the baby, the procedure for soiled diapers, choosing a designated site for diaper pick-up and drop-off and payment cycle, and to answer any questions you might have about cloth diapering. There will also be step-by-step procedures with pictures on the blog or website and printable versions available for those who need it.

DO I BUY THE DIAPERS?
Basically, it's like the customer is renting diapers from Mother Herb. We provide you with your chosen weekly amount based on what the average baby uses and then after a two week cycle, you will be receiving back the diapers that you started with and we'll have a better idea of how many you need. Each week you will be getting back the same diapers your baby used.

HOW WILL THEY GET TO ME?
Before your baby is born Mother Herb will deliver your first weeks worth of diapers, so when they arrive you'll be ready. Let us know when the baby has been born and we'll start up your regular cycle. Each week you will place the re-usable wet bag filled with your soiled diapers in the designated pick-up spot at your home on your pick up day, and it will be replaced with a clean re-usable wet bag filled with more fresh diapers.

WHAT DO I DO WITH THE SOILED DIAPER?
To ensure the integrity and longevity of our diapers, we ask that you remove all solid waste from the diapers before putting them in the pail. Though our own experience and research we have found that dunking the diapers in the toilet before placing them in the pail helps reduce staining (keep in mind we're not bleaching our diapers, though we will use natural stain removing detergents), and minimizes the strong urine odor that accumulates over a week. If the thought of touching your hands to toilet water makes you go germ crazy, bear in mind a good hand washing with warm water does the trick. Or you could check out this spray washer that hooks up to your toilet! Who thinks of these things?!

AGREEMENT AND PRICING
We ask that you only use our diapers for your baby's bottom. They are so wonderful you might want to use them as a blanket or sew them into a throw pillow, or place them over your shoulder for your baby to spit up on, or use them to sop up a spill, but don't. There are rags and burp cloths for those things.

We also ask for a four week commitment to start up your service.

Our pricing is being finalized, and will be posted when it is complete. It is our goal to offer prices that are competitive to purchasing Seventh Generation Disposables, or other unbleached chemical free disposables.