The Diaper Genie is the first gift most pregnant women get as a gift. It is designed to keep smelly diapers from fouling up the house, but now, there are new biodegradable diapers to take away the stink.

Lisa Clarke is the Green Earth baby guru behind the new cloth-designed diapers.

Three years ago, she created a Web-based business that sells cloth-diapering systems. Many of the diapers are made with bamboo and organic cotton, which is better for a baby's sensitive skin.

The design also gives eco-parents a clean and green option other than disposables.

"I've read everything from taking 500 years or longer to decompose, and one baby uses approximately 6,000 diapers before they're potty-trained," said Clarke.

"It's a choice, because in the end, not only cost-efficient to use but environmentally the right thing to do," said parent Denise Mahone, who uses cloth diapers.

"The more I learned about how we are saving the environment, and we're not using all these disposable diapers that don't break down for so many years, it's amazing," said parent Heather Hampton, who also uses the diapers.

Besides Clarke's Web business, she also conducts cloth-diapering classes, touting the eco-friendly convenience and cost benefits of cloth.

"To have to ask my husband to take this nasty bag of stuff and throw it away, then that is all going into the water and everything," said parent Alaina Frederick, who uses the diapers. "To me, it was just easier to just wash it and reuse it."

But if cloth isn't exactly appealing, there's now another alternative from Australia: G diapers, the first biodegradable diaper that you flush away.

"The cloth diaper thing, I thought that sounds like a lot of extra work for me, and I feel like I don't have a lot of extra time, so I thought this is going to be just what we need," said G Diapers user Jessica Halsband.

The G stands for green, and the concept is simple: A washable outer layer and liner that are latex, perfume and plastic free.

The company said the diapers break down and decompose within 150 days.

Manager of Good Life Market on Banksville Road said her store is one of three locals that carry the G Diapers.

Halsband said sales have been a bit slow, but she believes that's because many eco-parents don't know about them.

For more information, visit www.Gdiapers.com or www.GreenEarthBaby.com.

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