Sorry, but I had to put my foot down and make the rule, if someone poops on it, it's outta here, no exceptions.
I don't care how many times you wash it, I'll still feel it's poopy.
I can't help it, that's how I am, and she decided it was better to buy disposables than have me gagging all the time.

 

Do you change your floor every time you get a new puppy?

 

Nope.
We did Pampers with both babies.
No regrets.

 

Nope.
We did Pampers with both babies.
No regrets.

I've always been a firm-believer in whatever works and what plays out as being best.

 

Understandable. I know a good number of families that went the route of disposables, because either A, they didn't have the time to launder diapers, B, they didn't have a washing machine/dryer, or C, the ick factor was too much.

 

We used a diaper service with cloth diapers at first before we switched to pampers so it wasn’t one of the above reasons.
My babies seemed more comfortable and dry in pampers.

 

Cloth diapers for both of my kids. No matter how short of a time I had them in the disposables, regardless of whether the diaper was wet or dry, they would both develop horrible rashes. They didn’t have that problem with the cloth ones.

 

My kids suffered an occasional diaper rash/elastic gather rash every now and then, but overall had healthy bottoms and seemed comfy in cloth.

 

I used cloth diapers for the 1st one, then moved on to pampers for the 2nd. But I say whatever works best for you is the way to go

 

I couldn't agree more.

 

I don't remember cloth diapers, but I'm pretty sure that's what my folks used when I was little. These days I go with huggies for old farts.

 

ROFLMAO!

 

We used cloth diapers with all four, of our Rug Rats and never had diaper rash,

 

Didn't have kids, never changed a diaper.

What I do have issues with is disposable diapers all over the place.
Laying around at the park, dropped in parking lots, buried in the sand at the beach, laying around everywhere you go.
I couldn't mow when I lived in town without making a pass to pick up trash and diapers.
(One reason I hated living in town)

Maybe 16 years in the military living on clean bases spoiled me, but I hate trash in general and diapers in specific.

 

Didn't have kids, never changed a diaper.

What I do have issues with is disposable diapers all over the place.
Laying around at the park, dropped in parking lots, buried in the sand at the beach, laying around everywhere you go.
I couldn't mow when I lived in town without making a pass to pick up trash and diapers.
(One reason I hated living in town)

Maybe 16 years in the military living on clean bases spoiled me, but I hate trash in general and diapers in specific.

Everything else beyond the bolded part makes your comment rather......well, extraneous.

 

My baby brother was cloth diapered.

I uaed disposables for my oldest 2.

For my youngest i wanted to cloth diaper. Because cloth diapers have evolved so much. There are so many options and no pins needed. But since our son has certain medical issues cloth just wouldnt cut it.

But if I had another id definitely use cloth if possible.

 

Back in the day.....well, it was all cloth. And a very stinky diaper pail that went everywhere with us in the back seat or the trunk--like carrying a chicken coop around with us. And equally stinky, the ever present jug of Chlorox.. And pre-washing them in the toilet bowl--sometimes with gloved hands, sometimes not......

Sorry, I equate cloth diapers with an outdoor toilet.



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LOL! I have always found there to be a fine-line and strong divide between the two camps. With just two options (outside of diaper service), families are bound by picking a side.

Yes, I do remember the days of the stinky diaper pail, and travelling with kids in the backseat of the car wearing rubber pants!

 

I used disposables with the first 3, we worked full time and truthfully, cloth diapers were gross!!
We chose to use cloth diapers on the triplets. At the time(1998), the hospital used cloth also.
That lasted year and a half. By that point we were doubling and tripling diapers, and going through plastic pants like crazy. Pampers took us to the end.

 

OMG, I so remember double and triple diapering! Kids used to waddle as a result of all the bulk. Also remember how the rubber pants (when messy), made changing a diaper impossible without spreading the mess entirely down the child's legs. Waist-down baths in the tub were common when my kids were in diapers.

 

Do you change your floor every time you get a new puppy?

I don't know why, but people poop is 1,000,000,000,000 times more gross than animal poop.

 

You are not the only one to feel this way. It is quite common. Men seem to have the worst reactions and women do as well but over the millennia - needs must! Unless you want to live ankle deep in poop.

My husband can shovel manure all day long and had no trouble when his work took him to a sewage plant but in the beginning he changed diapers wearing his gas mask and emptying nearly a whole can of air freshener into the room. As with most things you can get used to it. He also gags when the cat throws up a hair ball.

 

I feel the same as CH. I could clean up after my pigs and other animals all day. I only used the cloth for a week because that was what mother used and I knew nothing about the others. this was back in 60. after that nothing but pampers. ~Georgia

 

Yep, definitely do think using cloth (for many of us) stems back to our own early days, remembering what baby siblings wore, etc. Always seemed to me to be easier to choose to use cloth diapers when one was exposed to cloth early on.

 

Well I had planned to cloth diaper with each of mine but life got in the way each time. With my daughter, her father was repulsed by the idea of washing a dirty diaper so that didn't happen. With my son it was just a matter of life being so busy and needing convenience so he was a huggies baby! I do have a lot of respect and kudos to those who do cloth diaper though

 

I totally understand about life and the busyness that it all too often brings.

There were many times when I had two in diapers, clean diapers sat unfolded in laundry baskets, and instead of using my outdoor clothesline for drying, I relied on my electric tumble dryer instead.

 

Cloth diapers, and we washed then in an old Maytag wringer washer on the back porch. I was changing diapers on my brothers when I was five years old. I can remember my mother straining fresh milk through a freshly washed diaper, that had been on one of my brothers the day before.

 

I was right behind you. Started changing diapers on baby siblings when I was age 8, and by age 10-11, remember doing the rinsing and all.

Sure, absolutely, an aunt of mine canned all sorts of garden goodies, and I vividly remember her using cloth diapers in the kitchen related to.

 

Way back, DD was in cloth diapers unless we were traveling across Texas. Disposable on the road. She broke out if we tried to use them regularly. DS was disposable diapers all the way, because we were both working when he was in diapers.

Way Way back when, I was put in cloth diapers. An older couple worked on the farm, she decided the washing machine wasn't good enough for my diapers so she washed them by hand on a washboard.

grandkids all had disposable.

 

We made a road trip or two in the car with tots in the back sporting rubber pants and double diapers. I used plastic bread bags to hold wet and dirty diapers until we arrived at our destination. Thankfully, during those trips we stayed with family/friends who also had little ones in cloth, so no inconvenience was imposed upon the hosts of our stays.

Also remember town trips when my kids were little, and how when change-time came about, down onto the backseat the kid would go, and pants were changed.

 

I won't tell you what your experience means. Many studies show disposable diapers are more hygienic with fewer skin & infectious problems. They are so better for the environment: less energy involved in cleaning and the "land fill problem" simply doesn't exist. It's a lie meant to advance a political agenda.

I remember when I started encountering disposables when babysitting, up to that point it was cloth diapers and rubber pants, and not much in the way of diaper rash or irritation, yet the disposable diapered bottoms were always red and sore looking by comparison.

I know disposable diapers have come a long way since the 1970's, but to me wearing paper pants on ones bottom seems like it would be awfully uncomfortable compared to soft, natural cotton.

As for the environment, I think about the industrial waste that's needed to manufacture all those disposables, the paper and plastic that go into the making of all those diapers, and last but not least, the solid waste that get's rolled up in the diapers and tossed, unlike cloth diapers which are rinsed in the toilet before laundering.

I can't speak for others on this, but after my children were past the stage of diapers, I repurposed what diapers I had leftover from the baby days into general purpose household dusting and cleaning cloths.

The old cloth vs disposable argument/debate (I'm certain) will never go away, but from the standpoint of disposable waste, our planet IMO would be a much better place if consumers chose reusable products rather than single use products. Just my two cents.

 

They certainly weren’t more hygienic for my children. It was the worst with my elder child. Within ten minutes of having a disposable diaper on, he would develop a horrible red, raw rash.

Cloth diapers were simply better for their skin, cheaper and, unlike disposables, they will last through multiple children. Plus, when they are no longer good for diapers, they make great cleaning rags.

While my experience with using disposable is limited, I do remember how scratchy they were. Definitely no where near as soft as cotton flannelette diapers were.

 

We used cloth diapers with all four, of our Rug Rats and never had diaper rash,

Six in our house, and though diaper rash made it's rounds every now and then, I believe my kids were comfy.

 

Didn't have kids, never changed a diaper.

What I do have issues with is disposable diapers all over the place.
Laying around at the park, dropped in parking lots, buried in the sand at the beach, laying around everywhere you go.
I couldn't mow when I lived in town without making a pass to pick up trash and diapers.
(One reason I hated living in town)

Maybe 16 years in the military living on clean bases spoiled me, but I hate trash in general and diapers in specific.

I second all that you said.

Back in the day when everyone used cloth diapers, I don't once remember ever seeing a wet or dirty cloth diaper disposed of in a parking lot, left behind in the sand at a beach, or laying in a rolled up bundle on the soft-shoulder of a highway. I can't say the same about disposables, and have even seen used, dirty disposables left in shopping carts, which to me is the ultimate in asinine rudeness. Can't imagine the low IQ of a person who chooses to follow through with such a deed.

Another waste hater here, too.

 

My baby brother was cloth diapered.

I uaed disposables for my oldest 2.

For my youngest i wanted to cloth diaper. Because cloth diapers have evolved so much. There are so many options and no pins needed. But since our son has certain medical issues cloth just wouldnt cut it.

But if I had another id definitely use cloth if possible.

As adamantly against the use of disposables as I am, there's a part of me that supports disposable products when related to certain medical and/or other situations.

For me, a lot of why I used cloth diapers on my kids, was all of the experience I had changing baby siblings when I was younger, and all of the common babysitting I did in and around the neighbourhood. Cloth diapers were all that I ever really knew, so for me it was just super easy to look towards cloth diapers without even giving it so much as a second thought.

 

for my 3 girls we just used newspapers on the floor.

 

How about travel of when out of the home?

 

Raised two in cloth. Not that long ago. There are some nice options these days. Velcro and snaps eliminate the need for pins. We used disposables every once in a while, usually ended up with a rash and leaking problems. Kept one of the custom covers. Had a hazardous waste symbol on it, a gift from a friend.

 

I recall when cloth diapers began getting more modern. Would have been sometime around 1990(ish). Velcro closures, diaper covers with snaps and Velcro, no more pins. Needless to say, I was still diapering my youngest in 1996 (nighttime), and pins and rubber pants were still the order of the day in our house.

Love the hazardous waste diaper cover! Reminds me of how stinky those old rubber pants used to get!

 

The closest City to us is about 12,000 people.
They pull a full sized semi truck load of diapers, tampons, napkins, baby wipes one or two times a week out of the sewer system/water treatment plant.

They don't decompose or recycle and hit land fills.
They are toxic to incinerate, they create Dioxin (think: Agent Orange) and PCBs (think: Times Beach, MO.)

Between the above and gel soaps, it REALLY keeps the sewer guys hopping.

I don't care what anyone uses, but throw it in the trash and not down the commode, or in the WalMart parking lot or shopping carts, don't leave them on store shelves or anywhere else people find them...

Come to think of it I do remember the old tub/wringer washing machines that a LOT of people kept outside when cloth diapers were the only thing there was...
I never connected the disappearance of those washers with the rise of disposables, but that's about all anyone I knew used one for.

I even have an old Kenmore table top washer (looks like a big pressure cooker) that was advertised as a diaper washer. I used it for shop towels when I first started the shop.
Same principal, just less stinky...

 

Shameful. We really have become such a wasteful society.

Yes, I used to help my mom wash my baby siblings diapers in an old-fashioned wringer washing machine, so I remember the days very well.

That's one nifty washer!

 

Well, actually, I don't really care what she chooses. When the kid got stinky, I just handed it off to her..... Should I just say here, "That's woman's work."?



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LOL, my husband never changed diapers, so I never even had to endure the old, "here honey, so and so needs changing" drill. By the time our 4th came along, oldest dear daughter was old enough to start helping with the changing, and when baby #5 and #6 made their debut, second oldest daughter was old enough to help with the changing, so between myself and my two daughters, diapers were checked and changed regularly.