Thread: Diapers

With talk of BBS, I started wondering how many of the people here with small children(or some of the senior members) use cloth diapers. My son is a year and a half and we've been using cloth diapers from the start. We have a very basic approach. Plain cotton gauze rectangles, clips (sometimes pins), and nylon covers. I can fold the diapers any way I want, adjust the size easily, boil them if I need to, and when they wear out I use them as cleaning rags or to shine my shoes.

You have my respect for going against the throw-away society. That's one of the reasons I got into SE-shaving.

The only thing I know about diapers, is that like Politicians, they should be changed regularly and often - and for exactly the same reason

Originally Posted by b0000urns

With talk of BBS, I started wondering how many of the people here with small children(or some of the senior members) use cloth diapers. My son is a year and a half and we've been using cloth diapers from the start. We have a very basic approach. Plain cotton gauze rectangles, clips (sometimes pins), and nylon covers. I can fold the diapers any way I want, adjust the size easily, boil them if I need to, and when they wear out I use them as cleaning rags or to shine my shoes.

My son is 12 now and a while back I found a cloth diaper that we never used, it is now my shaving towel..

We have twins that are currently in diapers. While looking at the cost of both we found that the cloth diapers was cheaper. The only problem was that we live in a small appartment and didn't have laundry facilities. It would not of been practical for us to use cloth so we use the disposable. On the plus side we wait until the diapers are really full before we change them. It's the only way we could think of trying to save on the landfills.

Originally Posted by slegault

It's the only way we could think of trying to save on the landfills.

There something else you can do with disposables that I've never heard of anyone doing, but the packages instruct you to do so: clean off any solid waste and put it in the toilet, rather than tossing it with the diaper in the trash can.

Originally Posted by b0000urns

There something else you can do with disposables that I've never heard of anyone doing, but the packages instruct you to do so: clean off any solid waste and put it in the toilet, rather than tossing it with the diaper in the trash can.

Actually I just remember that my twin group told us about a service that would use the soiled diapers for fertilizer or recycling it somehow. The problem was that we needed to install a bin on the property that the company would empty every two weeks and give us new diapers. The landlord of the building wouldn't let us put the bin on their property. Here is the link if anyone in the GTA is interested.

http://www.smallplanetinc.com/

As for putting it in the toilet I thought that would cause the toilet to back up.

Originally Posted by slegault

As for putting it in the toilet I thought that would cause the toilet to back up.

I believe that you would be putting just the solid waste (the poo) in the toilet. The diaper would still go in the trash.

We couldn't find a cloth diaper service 3 years ago when my son was born. We went the disposable route.

Ray

Originally Posted by slegault

We have twins that are currently in diapers. While looking at the cost of both we found that the cloth diapers was cheaper. The only problem was that we live in a small appartment and didn't have laundry facilities. It would not of been practical for us to use cloth so we use the disposable. On the plus side we wait until the diapers are really full before we change them. It's the only way we could think of trying to save on the landfills.

We also live in an apartment and with my son we had a diaper service pick up the soiled diapers. Some very thoughtful person gave us 3 months of this as a gift.

Looking to have our first kid here soon (so isn't pregnant but we are working on it) , so this topic has come up.

I see how cloth can be cheaper, but less convenient overall. So how do you guys who have gone th cloth rout handle the little annoyances. Like what do you do with them when you have to change away from home? Is there really a greater likelihood
of leakage as the disposable companies would have you believe? Is there increased skin irritation again as advertised by the competing product?

Also anyone who doesn't use a service, how difficult is it to wash them, and are there any ill effects to your washer?