Jennifer Labit
Cotton Babies Founder + CEO
Mother of 4
St. Louis, MO
Jenn is the founder of Cotton Babies & creator of bumGenius, Flip, and Econobum, worldwide leading cloth diaper brands. She has four children (Andrew, Oscar, Elsie and Louis) and holds an MBA from Washington University. When she's not working full time, she enjoys teaching business leaders how to implement sustainable economic & social change.
www.jenniferlabit.com
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Need diapers for your baby? This article is full of help tips! Almost Free Diapers: how to diaper your baby when you can’t afford disposable or cloth diapers. Diapers are expensive Over the weekend, a customer shared with us this news report from Manhattan’s NY1: High Cost Of Diapers Forces Some Parents Into Risky Practices. It breaks my heart because I personally know what it feels like to have to choose food OR diapers. When my husband and I started Cotton Babies, we were living on $30 a week for groceries plus a WIC check. That certainly wasn’t enough to
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I received this question on my Facebook page this week. It was posted by Bethany Haid, a Cotton Babies customer and a bumGenius user. Bethany writes: Jen, I have a friend that said, “So what? I don’t really care about all the waste.” How do you respond to people who are intolerant of cloth diapering or really indifferent about the negative impacts of paper diapers? Just wondering! Bethany’s question is so good that I thought I’d answer it here on the blog rather than let it get lost in the bowels of Facebook. You have a few choices.
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Do we have any poop experts who read this blog? If so, I need your help. We have pooping day in our house. It’s usually a day that we pick Elsie up from the babysitter and find out that she productively filled four diapers that day. Every single child will go at least once, maybe twice, and almost always during dinner. Sometimes, Jimmy and I will have a moment of shared hilarity when the last child finally yells for help wiping their bottom. Other times, like today, it’s not so funny. I’m ready to call the pediatrician and ask
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The Top 10 Cloth Diaper Industry Events of 2010 Analysis and opinion by Jennifer L. Labit, owner of Cotton Babies, Inc. Creator of bumGenius, Flip & Econobum. 10. For several years, the cloth diaper market has been primarily work at home mom based. Throughout the year, a number of retailers and several manufacturers (including Thirsties) were sold to growth-minded investors. This is a continuing trend from 2009 perhaps showing that we are entering a new phase for the product category. 9. In late October, gDiapers entered the European market. 8. In early October, we launched the
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After my Thanksgiving Day post about our holiday campaign to raise cloth diaper donations for needy families (read here: “Trim A Tree, Trim A Budget, Give Cloth Diapers”), we were pleased that many of you responded by purchasing Econobum products that we could donate to needy families on your behalf. I wanted to give a report of what has been donated, by you, so far in December: Econobum Diaper Covers – 4 Econobum Full Kits – 22 Econobum Trial Packs – 4 Econobum Prefolds (3 packs) – 5 If you don’t already know a family that needs cloth diapers, you
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Black Friday. Simple. Fun. Easy to shop. Cotton Babies Black Friday deals are cloth diaper grab bags with guaranteed savings of 30-35% over regular retail prices. We can’t disclose brands, but we can guarantee a really good deal. These limited availability offers end Sunday at midnight or while supplies last. Please shop early to guarantee your deal. Five fun cloth diaper grab bags at amazing prices. Starting at only $9.95 .Guaranteed savings of 30-35%. No limit. While supplies last. MilkDaze Camis are 60% off – only $11.60! No limit. While supplies last. Other deals available here and
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(thanksgiving day deals included at the bottom of this blog post) With the money saved by not purchasing disposable diapers, cloth diapers can help provide a family you know with better food. This year, our theme for Christmas is “Trim a Tree. Trim a Budget. Give Cloth Diapers.” You can change a family’s life (and how well they are able to feed their children) by giving them cloth diapers. Kimberly Clark has been airing commercials recently about their “Every Little Bottom” campaign. They now know what we already knew… many families are choosing between diapers and groceries. While I’m
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As we were discussing what to post on the blog around Thanksgiving, we started laughing in the office about how many of us have completely failed at trying to have a turkey dinner. Most of us have had at least one spectacular failure… many of the others had just never tried. My assistant, Rita, has previously offered to share her mother’s recipe for a successful Thanksgiving Day with me and I’d foolishly declined… thinking I’d be just fine. Unfortunately, last year’s Thanksgiving was a total train wreck. At 4pm (lunch was supposed to be at 2), I was near tears
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We were discussing the issue of internet bullying at breakfast the other day and a friend mentioned to me that it’s almost like women are using their words as fists. We advocate for our children who are dealing with bullies at school and then call it “free speech” when we use our blog or our Facebook page to bully people through subtle language choices. Subtleties are often lost on the socially unskilled. If that’s you, it’s ok. You don’t have comment on or even like this post. However, please read and use this post a guide for what not to
