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I have a baby related question....
Ok, so this may sound dumb, but all over the nest and the bump people are talking about how disposable diapers are bad... cloth diapers are good. What's so wrong with regular old diapers? And is it weird that I think that washing cloth diapers in your washing machine is absolutely disgusting?? So poop goes in the same thing you wash your clothes in? I'm completely ignorant on this topic, so someone fill me in.
Re: I have a baby related question....
I like disposables myself. They are bad for the enviroment though. I have tried both and I love me some pampers. If you are to do cloth you really need to do a diaper service where they deliver them to you and take the yucky ones away!!!!
Interestingly, I just listened to a podcast on this very topic.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stuff-mom-never-told-you/id304531053
It's the episode called "To Diaper or Not to Diaper?"
Somehow I got to reading about cloth diapers on someone's blog. This person had a sprayer they hooked up to the toilet to get rid of most of the business then they washed the diapers.
The disposables don't break down (think about maxi pads). It's kinda scary to think when you realize how many babies go through in their few years of diapers.
It seems like some people use both. Cloth at home and disposable when they go out. I'm sure we'll all be discussing this in due time.
I have wondered the same thing! I would prefer cloth diapers but there is no way I'd wash them in my normal washing machine and a diaper delivery service seems a bit extreme.
I will be doing disposables, for a number of reasons:
1. I am 110% positive that there is no such thing as a diaper delivery service in this stupid little podunk town that I was forced to live in against my will. And not a chance am I rinsing out a poopy diaper and then putting it in my washing machine.
2. While I definitely agree that disposable diapers are hard on the environment, I would think that the increased amount of laundry that needs to be done with cloth diapers can't be great for the environment either.
3. I worked at a daycare for two years while I was doing my education degree, and a lot of the babies there wore cloth diapers. This was a top of the line daycare, where the cost of attending per month was more than what I was paying for my university degree. The parents were all super wealthy, so obviously the babies had the best of the best. And the kids who had the cloth diapers, even the ultra fancy ones, would leak, stink, and the poop would squish out onto their clothes. Happened all the time. I used to get soooo vicious when I would see a new baby come in with their pretty little cloth diapers because I knew it was only a matter of minutes before I got pooped on. No thanks.
I have heard a good priced diaper service can cost the same as buying all of your own diapers and washing them yourself, so that idea isn't too outlandish if you have a service near you!
Personally I think if we have a baby some day I'll use something with a cover and an insert. They aren't supposed to be as leaky as old school cloth diapers.
http://www.gdiapers.com/
A friend of mine from high school (we lost touch for what are going to be obvious reasons in a sec) went total crazy hippie after university. She has a two and a half year old, is still breastfeeding, and he is walking and talking and just goes and lifts her shirt in public...other friends of ours are too mortified to go out with her anymore because she doesn't even attempt to cover up her boob, because it is "natural". Doesn't matter if she is at a restaurant, out shopping, wherever. I am all for breastfeeding but there's got to be some cut off here.
Not the point of the story. When her baby was born, she was adamant that he not wear diapers. She was convinced that babies will tell you right from birth when they need to do their business. So he spent the first year of his life totally naked, and she would hold him up over a bowl for him to do his thing. Yes, like a big baking/mixing bowl. She posted the pictures of this on her blog and on FB. Spare me.
She could've just trained her kid how to use a litterbox - so much easier than holding him over a bowl and waiting for him to go. ;-)
I'm all about the disposables. Sorry, Mother Earth, but I recycle religiously otherwise and bring my canvas bags to the grocery store so I don't feel like a total heathen.
Really - I'm all about practicality when you get right down to it. The kid won't have to bother you for anything toilet-related, kids actually LIKE to dig in sandboxes, right?, there's no non-biodegradable waste - you can just scoop out and toss into the trash. Perfect.
I don't know why no one thought of this earlier?
Eeeww
Her "partner" (they refuse to get married because it is an "institution" or some such crap) is just as hippified as she is. Maybe he's into that...I have SUCH a great photo of her b'feeding but I know it would be totally inappropriate to post it here because it's not mine to post. But you guys would die.
Make that multiple photos. She's all about posting pics of her boobs on FB.
Megan - good point! Here is diaper free post:
http://growingupcharlie.blogspot.com/2008/10/elis-new-potty.html
And this is an booby shot. Not nearly as much booby as some of her photos, but a good demonstration of age and ability of her child.
http://growingupcharlie.blogspot.com/2010/03/boobies-bike-rides-make-everything.html
I am aware that posting these makes me a horrible person.