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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: Natalia Evans on January 16, 2011, 03:32:07 AM
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If your kids are out of diapers, you can still vote for what you used when they wore.
I am currently using cloth because I'm cheap and I don't want to be spending lot of money on diapers every month and it give us more spending money. But we only be spending some of it on washing them since we have to pay to do laundry but it's cheap and it's a lot cheaper than using a diaper service or buying disposables.
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When I was a baby I wore disposable nappies
Now I wear cloth ones
joke :autism:
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when I was a baby I had to wear cloth diapers cause im allergic to almost everything, and my mom always used to bitch at me about it when I got older, like it was my fault or something :laugh:
I dont have kids and I dont want them so I guess I have no buisiness posting in this thread, but there isn't anything better to do.
if I *did* have a kid I'd probably use disposable ones for convieniece. But I wouldnt know how to put it on the kid so it would probably piss all over the place anyway.
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If I have kids then my wife/gf is doing the nappy changing
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If I had a baby I would use cloth nappies at home and disposable ones when out and about just for the convenience of them.
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If your kids are out of diapers, you can still vote for what you used when they wore.
I am currently using cloth because I'm cheap and I don't want to be spending lot of money on diapers every month and it give us more spending money. But we only be spending some of it on washing them since we have to pay to do laundry but it's cheap and it's a lot cheaper than using a diaper service or buying disposables.
When I was a baby, I just used cloth diapers.
With my daughter, I used both cloth and disposable diapers.
Disposables were much more convenient to use when we weren't at home.
If your son ever goes to day care, note that most people don't know how to rinse out cloth diapers or maybe they just don't want to so if he poops, they will probably just put the entire diaper, contents and all, into a plastic bag for you to deal with when you get home.
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My mother used cloth diapers only, which gave her lots of washing to do, since she had three kids in less than three years! :sick:
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We used disposables but anyway you do it :zombiefuck:
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When I was a baby I wore disposable nappies
Now I wear cloth ones
joke :autism:
:rofl:
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This may sound counter-intuative, but disposables are better for the environment.
Cloth has to be washed which causes water polution.
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This may sound counter-intuative, but disposables are better for the environment.
Cloth has to be washed which causes water polution.
AND uses lots of hot water that would be better used for bathing! :bath:
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I do wonder how mothers manage to get all the washing done when they use cloth nappies? I mean a new mum must have loads of washing and other stuff to do as it is.
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I do wonder how mothers manage to get all the washing done when they use cloth nappies? I mean a new mum must have loads of washing and other stuff to do as it is.
You can be the parent of a new baby, or you can sleep. You can't do both. :laugh:
If your kids are out of diapers, you can still vote for what you used when they wore.
I am currently using cloth because I'm cheap and I don't want to be spending lot of money on diapers every month and it give us more spending money. But we only be spending some of it on washing them since we have to pay to do laundry but it's cheap and it's a lot cheaper than using a diaper service or buying disposables.
It's probably smarter to do it that way if you're OK with the ick factor of doing that laundry. I'm assuming there's precautions you need to take/do take to minimize the risk of e. coli or other bacteria causing infections or sickness (prolly have to use hot water?).
...god, I'm glad I can't breed. More power to you for doing it, Kit. Take good care of your kid- don't let it get all fucked up like the rest of us on this board are. :laugh:
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I really hope I never have to wear nappies myself. I think I'll kill myself if I do. Especially if I still have ocd
What's scary though is I don't know if I'd ever have the guts to go through with it if I really did need to kill myself :laugh:
But yeah, shit is horrible, even if it's from a little person
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I do wonder how mothers manage to get all the washing done when they use cloth nappies? I mean a new mum must have loads of washing and other stuff to do as it is.
Imagine my mother, with her three kids all born within 2 years and 10 months! :zombiefuck:
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I really hope I never have to wear nappies myself. I think I'll kill myself if I do. Especially if I still have ocd
What's scary though is I don't know if I'd ever have the guts to go through with it if I really did need to kill myself :laugh:
But yeah, shit is horrible, even if it's from a little person
I think it's prolly way less bad before the child starts eating solid food.
And one of my worst nightmares is losing the ability to take care of myself. I'd be freaked out by needing somehting like that because of the "I'm falling apart" factor way more than the ick factor.
Then again I don't even have to deal with feminine hygiene products. Bought the things once, for a friend's mother. I don't know how normal women deal with having thier vag bleed for a week straight every month. :zombiefuck:
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I really hope I never have to wear nappies myself. I think I'll kill myself if I do. Especially if I still have ocd
What's scary though is I don't know if I'd ever have the guts to go through with it if I really did need to kill myself :laugh:
But yeah, shit is horrible, even if it's from a little person
I think it's prolly way less bad before the child starts eating solid food.
And one of my worst nightmares is losing the ability to take care of myself. I'd be freaked out by needing somehting like that because of the "I'm falling apart" factor way more than the ick factor.
Then again I don't even have to deal with feminine hygiene products. Bought the things once, for a friend's mother. I don't know how normal women deal with having thier vag bleed for a week straight every month. :zombiefuck:
It's a pain in the ass, and then come the hot flashes and whatnot. Any day now... :zombiefuck:
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If your kids are out of diapers, you can still vote for what you used when they wore.
I am currently using cloth because I'm cheap and I don't want to be spending lot of money on diapers every month and it give us more spending money. But we only be spending some of it on washing them since we have to pay to do laundry but it's cheap and it's a lot cheaper than using a diaper service or buying disposables.
When I was a baby, I just used cloth diapers.
With my daughter, I used both cloth and disposable diapers.
Disposables were much more convenient to use when we weren't at home.
If your son ever goes to day care, note that most people don't know how to rinse out cloth diapers or maybe they just don't want to so if he poops, they will probably just put the entire diaper, contents and all, into a plastic bag for you to deal with when you get home.
My friend told me the daycares here aren't allowed to handle them so when they change them, they have to put them in a bag and they put it in the child's cubby. So when the parent comes and picks up their baby, there is all that poop in the diaper. It's not about being lazy, they are just not allowed to rinse them out due to health safety. But this is up in Washington where my friend lives. I don't know about my city and not all day cares do cloth because of health safety.
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How revolting. Who wants dirty nappies being left there all day?
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I do wonder how mothers manage to get all the washing done when they use cloth nappies? I mean a new mum must have loads of washing and other stuff to do as it is.
It doesn't take long to dump the diapers in the washer and turn it on and you don't need to stand there and wait for them to get done. You leave it be. Then you go back down and take them out and put them in the dryer and leave again. And to make it even quicker, you can just dump the poop in the toilet after you change your baby every time so you don't have all these diapers to rinse out before throwing them in the wash. You can also have a diaper pail or bucket with water in it and toss the used one in there so it soaks. Then when it's time to wash them, dump them in the washer and put it on rinse cycle and then wash them. It doesn't take long at all but sadly I can't use rinse cycle because our washer doesn't have it and it costs a dollar to do a load so I'd rather do it the rinsing.
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How revolting. Who wants dirty nappies being left there all day?
Soph, based on your germ and hygiene issues, daycares would bother you tremendously on many levels over and above dirty diapers being somewhere in the building.
It's a pain in the ass, and then come the hot flashes and whatnot. Any day now... :zombiefuck:
Oh, the hot flashes and all that jazz, I'll get- it'll just be trickier to recognize. Hopefully I'm a coupla decades away from that, though :laugh:
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All I can say is, thank god I don't have any kids. :sick:
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But there's only one washing machine and mothers have bibs and babygrows and towels and stuff to wash as well, plus all their own and their partner's/other kids' clothes. I mean even my mum always has stuff in the washing and we don't have anyone younger than 6 in our house. I don't see how she'd have time to fit in a whole other wash just for nappies
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How revolting. Who wants dirty nappies being left there all day?
Soph, based on your germ and hygiene issues, daycares would bother you tremendously on many levels over and above dirty diapers being somewhere in the building.
lol True. Although my germ stuff is mostly toilet/shit related. I mean I kiss the cat on the mouth, so it would mostly just be the toilet and there are toilets everywhere (ffs). Babies are yucky though yeah. I remember when my youngest brother was still using a potty and there was one downstairs, I had to hold my breath every time I walked through the room :P (and that was even before I got ocd rofl)
btw I am going to a hospital which is meant to be the best in the country for treating anxiety disorders, for my OCD I mean. Although they are trying to get out of funding it
Just thought you might be interested, with your mental interests and all that :P
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If your kids are out of diapers, you can still vote for what you used when they wore.
I am currently using cloth because I'm cheap and I don't want to be spending lot of money on diapers every month and it give us more spending money. But we only be spending some of it on washing them since we have to pay to do laundry but it's cheap and it's a lot cheaper than using a diaper service or buying disposables.
When I was a baby, I just used cloth diapers.
With my daughter, I used both cloth and disposable diapers.
Disposables were much more convenient to use when we weren't at home.
If your son ever goes to day care, note that most people don't know how to rinse out cloth diapers or maybe they just don't want to so if he poops, they will probably just put the entire diaper, contents and all, into a plastic bag for you to deal with when you get home.
My friend told me the daycares here aren't allowed to handle them so when they change them, they have to put them in a bag and they put it in the child's cubby. So when the parent comes and picks up their baby, there is all that poop in the diaper. It's not about being lazy, they are just not allowed to rinse them out due to health safety. But this is up in Washington where my friend lives. I don't know about my city and not all day cares do cloth because of health safety.
Everywhere I have seen, they use a new pair of disposable gloves whenever they change a child, then when they finish, they take off the gloves by turning them inside out without touching the outside of the glove with their bare hands and they dispose of them, then they wash the child's hands and their own hands. IMO, if they are wearing disposable gloves, it wouldn't be a health safety issue to at least dump out the poop into the toilet so I don't completely buy their explanation of why they put the whole diaper, poop and all, into a plastic bag and then into the child's cubby.
When I changed cloth diapers or training pants for my daughter at home, I dumped the contents into the toilet and then used the hand shower in my daughter's bathroom to rinse out the diapers into the toilet before I put them into the diaper pail.
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I was watching an A&E program once where a guy was in a motorbike accident and ended up having to use a colostomy bag for the rest of his life
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I'd just like to interrupt this lovely topic to point out how steady my stomach is!
I'm reading this thread AND eating cake at the same time.
Chocolate cake, mind you! :soph:
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You're eating the contents of a baby's nappy!
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I was watching an A&E program once where a guy was in a motorbike accident and ended up having to use a colostomy bag for the rest of his life
I knew a friend of my mother's who had to use a colostomy bag for a while after she had colon cancer.
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Like I say, it doesn't take long to put a load in the washing machine. My mom did it all when we were kids and she used disposables but she did tons of laundry. Then you leave it be and let it wash and dry. But I like cleaning anyway and folding clothes. If you want to do it all later, just toss the clean linen on your bed and fold later after you get through with all the clothes unless you want to take longer to fold them all so you will mind as well do it after they get through drying. So you can still do other things as they are being washed and dried.
I can never understand how parents can say they don't have time for this or that or people saying it too. I find myself still doing the same things I did before and the books and internet make it sound like you have no time for nothing once the baby comes so you sit there and wonder "How am I going to shower?" "How am I going to clean and eat?" "How am I going to cook or put away groceries?" but you'd be surprised. Or maybe lot of women aren't smart enough to find ways around it. But I think women do find ways and find out they can still do things but they may be more limited but they can still get it done. Even if it means pausing their video game when their baby starts to get fussy or when it cries and then find they need to be changed or fed so they leave their game on pause or even finding they have to leave their chore to take care of their baby and get back to it later or finding it takes them five hours to make a post online because they had to calm their baby down and hold it and feed it and they got too distracted from the forum.
Hey I wonder how moms take care of their older kids when they have a new baby? Especially when they are very sore from giving birth. It's hard to get up and sit down and moving around and you can't run because it be very uncomfortable if you do so imagine having to chase your two year old? For a couple weeks I felt like a granny because I had to get up slowly and sit down slowly and I walked slower because I was sore down there and took pain medicine for it. I couldn't even wipe either and I had to dab down there. And even when you first get home, you are tired and exhausted so I wonder how mothers even do it when they have little ones running around and they have to stay up and take care of them? I am sure they get help for the first week after they come home but what about if they are on their own and they have no help because they don't have family living nearby?
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It doesn't take long to put them in the washing no. But once they're in there, you have to wait till it;s finished and other washing starts piling up
Your baby must be a good boy lol
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You're eating the contents of a baby's nappy!
No, it's cake, really. :hug:
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Like I say, it doesn't take long to put a load in the washing machine. My mom did it all when we were kids and she used disposables but she did tons of laundry. Then you leave it be and let it wash and dry. But I like cleaning anyway and folding clothes. If you want to do it all later, just toss the clean linen on your bed and fold later after you get through with all the clothes unless you want to take longer to fold them all so you will mind as well do it after they get through drying. So you can still do other things as they are being washed and dried.
I can never understand how parents can say they don't have time for this or that or people saying it too. I find myself still doing the same things I did before and the books and internet make it sound like you have no time for nothing once the baby comes so you sit there and wonder "How am I going to shower?" "How am I going to clean and eat?" "How am I going to cook or put away groceries?" but you'd be surprised. Or maybe lot of women aren't smart enough to find ways around it. But I think women do find ways and find out they can still do things but they may be more limited but they can still get it done. Even if it means pausing their video game when their baby starts to get fussy or when it cries and then find they need to be changed or fed so they leave their game on pause or even finding they have to leave their chore to take care of their baby and get back to it later or finding it takes them five hours to make a post online because they had to calm their baby down and hold it and feed it and they got too distracted from the forum.
Hey I wonder how moms take care of their older kids when they have a new baby? Especially when they are very sore from giving birth. It's hard to get up and sit down and moving around and you can't run because it be very uncomfortable if you do so imagine having to chase your two year old? For a couple weeks I felt like a granny because I had to get up slowly and sit down slowly and I walked slower because I was sore down there and took pain medicine for it. I couldn't even wipe either and I had to dab down there. And even when you first get home, you are tired and exhausted so I wonder how mothers even do it when they have little ones running around and they have to stay up and take care of them? I am sure they get help for the first week after they come home but what about if they are on their own and they have no help because they don't have family living nearby?
I think that if a baby has colic and needs to be tended to most of the time, it's a lot harder to get other things done, including a shower for yourself, until he takes a nap.
It's very hard to chase a toddler soon after giving birth so I don't know how a single mom could do it all herself with no help in addition to recovering from the birth or surgery if she had a C-section.
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Like I say, it doesn't take long to put a load in the washing machine. My mom did it all when we were kids and she used disposables but she did tons of laundry. Then you leave it be and let it wash and dry. But I like cleaning anyway and folding clothes. If you want to do it all later, just toss the clean linen on your bed and fold later after you get through with all the clothes unless you want to take longer to fold them all so you will mind as well do it after they get through drying. So you can still do other things as they are being washed and dried.
I can never understand how parents can say they don't have time for this or that or people saying it too. I find myself still doing the same things I did before and the books and internet make it sound like you have no time for nothing once the baby comes so you sit there and wonder "How am I going to shower?" "How am I going to clean and eat?" "How am I going to cook or put away groceries?" but you'd be surprised. Or maybe lot of women aren't smart enough to find ways around it. But I think women do find ways and find out they can still do things but they may be more limited but they can still get it done. Even if it means pausing their video game when their baby starts to get fussy or when it cries and then find they need to be changed or fed so they leave their game on pause or even finding they have to leave their chore to take care of their baby and get back to it later or finding it takes them five hours to make a post online because they had to calm their baby down and hold it and feed it and they got too distracted from the forum.
Hey I wonder how moms take care of their older kids when they have a new baby? Especially when they are very sore from giving birth. It's hard to get up and sit down and moving around and you can't run because it be very uncomfortable if you do so imagine having to chase your two year old? For a couple weeks I felt like a granny because I had to get up slowly and sit down slowly and I walked slower because I was sore down there and took pain medicine for it. I couldn't even wipe either and I had to dab down there. And even when you first get home, you are tired and exhausted so I wonder how mothers even do it when they have little ones running around and they have to stay up and take care of them? I am sure they get help for the first week after they come home but what about if they are on their own and they have no help because they don't have family living nearby?
I think that if a baby has colic and needs to be tended to most of the time, it's a lot harder to get other things done, including a shower for yourself, until he takes a nap.
It's very hard to chase a toddler soon after giving birth so I don't know how a single mom could do it all herself with no help in addition to recovering from the birth or surgery if she had a C-section.
My mother had to do that. She delivered my sister by emergency C-section and had us two older ones at home, ages 2 and 3.
She was not a single mother, but was home with us all day while my father was at work, no in-laws to help. :zombiefuck:
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I thnk a big reason women often find it hard to get everything done as easily is because they want to spend a lot of time with the baby. They need to bond with it. So they're not just dealing with its crying/nappy etc and then dumping it again. They're there for it constantly
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I thnk a big reason women often find it hard to get everything done as easily is because they want to spend a lot of time with the baby. They need to bond with it. So they're not just dealing with its crying/nappy etc and then dumping it again. They're there for it constantly
I must confess, I'd be one of those mothers who park the kid in a playpen in front of the TV for 12 hours a day! :zoinks:
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I couldn't be arsed with a kid right now either. Which is why I won't be having any lol (well one of the many reasona :P )
The bitch of a "mother" our family is suffering from was trying to take half the birthday money she gave her daughter off her this weekend, to buy cigarettes :facepalm2:
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Being in diapers in 1949-51, I was cloth diapers, before dryers. Imagine washing diapers using a wringer washing machine and hanging the diapers to dry. Wet days were a real aggravation for my mother.
With the Princess Royal we used disposibles. We lived in an apartment. Prince Albert wanted to stay home with what would probably be our only child (because of our ages). I thought disposibles would be simpler for him. I did have a dozen cloth diapers for general baby use (light blanket shading the sun, large bib for very messy meals, etc.)
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I thnk a big reason women often find it hard to get everything done as easily is because they want to spend a lot of time with the baby. They need to bond with it. So they're not just dealing with its crying/nappy etc and then dumping it again. They're there for it constantly
Well I spend time with him but I also put him down to get stuff done and I still leave the apartment babyless but I only do it when my husband is home. I know he will be there when I get back and he isn't going anywhere if I have to put him down so I can do the dishes. I guess I am just lucky I won't miss him for a few minutes even if we are in the same apartment or if I am gone for a couple hours. ::) I have came out of the shower a couple times with him screaming and I would wonder how long has he been doing that. I just dry off and put on my bra and disposable underwear and go get him. Now I shower before my husband has to go to bed.
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I thnk a big reason women often find it hard to get everything done as easily is because they want to spend a lot of time with the baby. They need to bond with it. So they're not just dealing with its crying/nappy etc and then dumping it again. They're there for it constantly
I must confess, I'd be one of those mothers who park the kid in a playpen in front of the TV for 12 hours a day! :zoinks:
I picture myself putting him in his playpen when I clean or need to cook or do laundry just so he'd stay out of trouble. I have even thought about putting gates across the kitchen to keep him out. But the only annoying thing is I would have to move the gates when I open the bottom cupboards and then putting the gate back. But hey it be so much easier than putting up safety locks on the drawers and doors. I can't even figure out how to use those darn things so even they keep me out.
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Those gates are a good idea imo
We had them when my brothers were kids - at the top and bottom of the stairs and (in our current house) at the entrance to the kitchen, because most of downstairs is open plan so if he was crawling round the living room, he'd easily be ab;le to get in the kitchen
Even with the locks on cupboards I don't think kitchens are a safe place for a baby (unless someone's holding him obviously)
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In diaper services, I am amazed how many parents don't dump the excess poop in the toilet. I guess because they don't have to wash them, they are too lazy to even be considerate to dump out the poop. It's one of the most nasty jobs to have.
Diaper services started during WWII and my guess is because men were over seas so moms were on their own doing all the housework and raising the kids so they made it more convenient for them by starting diaper services so they wouldn't have to worry about washing them and hanging them to dry. But because it was more convenient and less laundry to do, they kept the services and they still exist.
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This may sound counter-intuative, but disposables are better for the environment.
Cloth has to be washed which causes water polution.
Yup, when my oldest was born, the environmental verdict was still in favour of cloth. Since she did not react that well on paper, I have used cloth for her for a long time.
When they youngest was born, the tides began to change. The use of plastic in the disposables stopped. A couple of years after that, disposables could be discarded with the green waste, to be composted. And I have not seen cloth advised for environmental reasons since.
I've used cloth with my youngest for almost a year. Motivated also by her hips. She was on the brink of needing a splint for hip-dysplasia. I had heard from the orthopaedic instrument maker that using double cloth diapers was advised in cases like that, when disposables weren't common yet. It was enough. She did not need the splint.
When she was 11 months, I had a horrible flu, the washing became too much for a few weeks, and I did not get back to cloth after that.
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This may sound counter-intuative, but disposables are better for the environment.
Cloth has to be washed which causes water polution.
Yup, when my oldest was born, the environmental verdict was still in favour of cloth. Since she did not react that well on paper, I have used cloth for her for a long time.
When they youngest was born, the tides began to change. The use of plastic in the disposables stopped. A couple of years after that, disposables could be discarded with the green waste, to be composted. And I have not seen cloth advised for environmental reasons since.
I've used cloth with my youngest for almost a year. Motivated also by her hips. She was on the brink of needing a splint for hip-dysplasia. I had heard from the orthopaedic instrument maker that using double cloth diapers was advised in cases like that, when disposables weren't common yet. It was enough. She did not need the splint.
When she was 11 months, I had a horrible flu, the washing became too much for a few weeks, and I did not get back to cloth after that.
I had an orthopedic treatment like that as a baby, for my right leg, which was turned inward due to a too-short muscle! :orly:
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If you want to use cloth diapers, you can buy really thin sheets to put in them. It keeps urine from getting back from the diaper to the baby's skin a bit, and when the baby poops, you can throw away the poo easily, with the inlay sheet. Makes a big difference.
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If you want to use cloth diapers, you can buy really thin sheets to put in them. It keeps urine from getting back from the diaper to the baby's skin a bit, and when the baby poops, you can throw away the poo easily, with the inlay sheet. Makes a big difference.
That's clever.
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A few years back there was a (fortunately) short-lived idea that children should not wear diapers at all. The parents were supposed to be alert to the signs when a child was going to void or evacuate and put them on the toilet, thus shortening potty training. As I said it was a short-lived idea.
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A few years back there was a (fortunately) short-lived idea that children should not wear diapers at all. The parents were supposed to be alert to the signs when a child was going to void or evacuate and put them on the toilet, thus shortening potty training. As I said it was a short-lived idea.
An older woman in my village, now deceased, told me about the days when there were no plastic sheets to cover the diapers. And also told about a similar short lived idea in the days she had her oldest kids. She never went for that one. But the vivid descriptions of the prams of those who did are triggered now by this post of yours.
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A few years back there was a (fortunately) short-lived idea that children should not wear diapers at all. The parents were supposed to be alert to the signs when a child was going to void or evacuate and put them on the toilet, thus shortening potty training. As I said it was a short-lived idea.
OMG. That sounds like a bad idea :laugh:
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A few years back there was a (fortunately) short-lived idea that children should not wear diapers at all. The parents were supposed to be alert to the signs when a child was going to void or evacuate and put them on the toilet, thus shortening potty training. As I said it was a short-lived idea.
I heard this idea but just for potty training. There was a theory that disposable training pants slowed down potty training because they worked too well and kept kids too comfortable. So I bought several pairs of cloth training pants.
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It's call elimination control or whatever. I have thought about doing that (just so I'd save money on diapers) but it be annoying to take the infant potty out in public and it's socially inappropriate to take it out on the bus and put my baby on it for him to go and it be even annoying to run to the bathroom every 20 minutes to put him on the jon while at home it be so much easier and if I used the potty at home and then diapers out in public, it might confuse our baby because he won't know when to use his diapers and when not to. Babies are black and white I assume because they won't understand if they are supposed to use the potty or go in their diapers because I kept expecting them to hold it in at home until I hold them over the jon but yet expect them to release it in their diaper. So diapers 24/7 are so much easier and if society made it easy for ECers, then it wouldn't be a problem to take the potty out in the middle of the mall and put him on it but then it be annoying to carry the used potty with me to the restroom to dump it and then wipe out so forget it. But this is still common in the middle east and Africa and it was more common here too but over the years we got more and more lazy to do it and now almost everyone thinks babies have no control over their bodily functions and don't know how to hold it but that is false. If you google infant potty training, you be surprised by what you read. Infants from birth are actually aware of their own waste and they do try and hold it in when they need to go but we ignore their body signals and because their bladders are so small, they can't hold it long as we can so they have an accident and we just let them sit in their urine. Then after a while they learn that is where they are supposed to go so they quit trying to hold it in and just go and then they need to re learn the control when we potty train them and being aware of when they need to go and how to hold it. So we actually train them to use their diapers. Diapers were intended for in the first place for accidents but instead we use them for something else. Over the years EC got less and less common here and now it's rare.
Sometimes I still think about doing it and I am in a Babycenter group about it.
I hear that disposables diapers slow down potty training as well for kids because many of them don't want to give them up because they are so comfortable to wear and they absorb the wetness. But cloth diaper kids are potty trained sooner because they feel wet more and it doesn't absorb the wetness that much. I have heard that kids are potty trained later and later these days. Now it's normal for four year olds to still be in them if I remember correctly or is that three now? I think back then when I was still wearing them at three, it was still uncommon for kids that old to still be in them. Now today it's not uncommon.
Some parents do use diaper soakers in cloth for the poo and they just throw it out but to me that is still like spending money on diapers because you have to buy them. I am not sure how much a pack of diaper soakers cost but if I have to use those or have to buy sheets to toss out, forget it. I already have to spend money on laundry.
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Some parents do use diaper soakers in cloth for the poo and they just throw it out but to me that is still like spending money on diapers because you have to buy them. I am not sure how much a pack of diaper soakers cost but if I have to use those or have to buy sheets to toss out, forget it. I already have to spend money on laundry.
They are really cheap, and, if you want to go for really cheap, some brands stay quite well in the washing machine too. So you'd only be throwing away the ones with poo in it.
For potty training. Letting your boy walk around with just a shirt in summer outside at home, and a potty in the garden has done the trick for lots of children.
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Sometimes I wish I had a yard. But less work then when I don't have one.
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Hey guest: Doing some research for buttcoffee, eh?
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I used disposable nappies, then pull up pants.
They went in a nappy bag, then the outside bin!
Never even thought about the environment. :zombiefuck:
I found it hard to get done all the things you have to do as a mother anyway so
for me it was the easy option.
If i had been more 'domesticated' or better at housework in general i would have
probably used real nappies.
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By the time your urchin was born, disposables were better for the environment than cloth.
So, you don't have to worry about that in hindsight.
Disposable diapers can now be put away with "green waste", they can be composted completely.