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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Have you been looking for new Good Mama prints? Cotton Babies has new EXCLUSIVE print Good Mama Diapers! They are really fun, and bright – the inside of each is a solid color that matches the outer fabric. Here are the details: Outer: Printed knit fabric (varies)Core: Absorbent organic bamboo fleeceLining: Soft cotton velour in a color hand chosen to compliment the outer print fabric Here are all the prints: Click on the image to see them up-close! Already using Good Mama Diapers? Be the first to leave a review at Cotton Babies…
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Some of you may have seen Jenn’s tweet this morning about her television interview today. We just got back to the office (the interview was done at the store) and I thought I’d share some pictures I took with my phone while she was in the hot seat! The cameraman’s set up: Jenn being interviewed: Bekah (cloth diapering momma and fellow blog contributor) was also interviewed – holding her sweet little Marguerite): The interview will air on the Higher Education Channel here in St. Louis but Nancy, the sweet interviewer, said that it will be easier viewed on their website.
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If you are on our email list, you saw this call out already (if not, you can sign up for email at www.cottonbabies.com!) Have you blogged about Cotton Babies or bumGenius? I’m in the process of updating our media reviews pages on the bumGenius website and would love to link back to your blog in a special section we’re creating just for mommy bloggers… To be included, send an email to kc@cottonbabies.com with your blog name and a direct link to the page the review is located at. If you haven’t already written about your bumGenius cloth diapers, now is
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It seems like everywhere I go, I hear someone talking about Twitter – from the news world, to celebrities, to sports…and now even cloth diapers. Did you know that there is a huge cloth diapering community forming on Twitter? So I thought we could do a quick crash course on Twitter and give you the scoop on how to connect with the tons of other cloth diaper moms who are tweeting. In short, Twitter is a way to communicate something in only 140 characters – like a blog, but much shorter. You can keep up with friends, family and coworkers
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The product review system online is starting to get murky as more and more companies begin to solicit posts from bloggers. While we value the blogging community (I am a blogger myself), we also believe that value and reliability of a review lies in the unsolicited, unbiased opinion of the person writing the review. With that in mind, I wanted to state a few important points about how we handle product reviews: 1. Cotton Babies does not solicit rewarded or paid reviews of our products or our website. Reviews that you read can be trusted as unsolicited reviews from real
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The cloth diaper industry (businesses and consumers alike) needs to work together to effectively counter a bribed blogger initiative designed to promote disposable diapers through mommy bloggers. This is coming directly from the disposable diaper companies. You may have already started to see these posts on some blogs. As a reference, you can rely on this little tidbit in the Wall Street Journal in an article called “Big Diaper Makers Square Off” published on April 13, 2009. “Kimberly-Clark plans to ship free samples of its new diapers to about 500“mommy bloggers,” hoping to build buzz among mothers who write aboutchild-rearing
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Cloth diapers are all over the news these days – everything from how easy and convenient they are to use to the fact that they are more cost-effective, better for the environment and safer for our babies’ bums than disposables. It is often said “these aren’t your grandma’s cloth diapers” and that couldn’t be a more accurate statement. Sure, prefolds with a diaper cover resemble the diapers we toddled around in, but with amazing diapering systems out there, like bumGenius, cloth diapering breathes a whole new life. A recent article at thebigmoney.com focuses on the rise in cloth diapering during
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I love reading and hearing about all the great adventures in cloth diapering – stories ranging from why you picked bumGenius as your cloth diaper of choice to funny stories involving your daily experiences with cloth diapers. Here are two blog posts that made me smile: A video game dad turned cloth diapering fan. (I’m a sucker for the dads that love their bumGenius!) An expectant mother’s excitement over her first cloth diaper purchase. So… what is your bumGenius story? Post in the comments or send me an email at kc.cottonbabies AT gmail DOT com.
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Elsie is now almost three months old. We’re finally settling into a routine. She is adjusting well to life outside of my uterus. As we suspected, our first weeks with her home were wonderful but rough as my body went through the initial postpartum period. I’m back to work now and learning how to to do life as a company owner with a nursling. When I posted about her birth, I promised a review of some of my favorite products for the postpartum time period. I’m finally getting a moment this afternoon to write a review of the nursing products
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So, I learned something new recently. According to a recent UK study, we can lower the carbon (ie: environmental) impact of using cloth diapers to 40% less (!) than the carbon impact of using disposable diapers. You can. Here’s how: 1. Wash cloth diapers in temperatures under 140 F / 60 C. 2. Line dry cloth diapers. 3. Use your diapers for a second child. If you need to know what carbon impact is… here’s a quick primer: Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that affects the ozone layer. Lowering greenhouse gas emissions helps address global warming issues. The goal
