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From: rick@iddic.UUCP (Rick Coates)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: cloth diapers
Message-ID: <2141@iddic.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 16:39:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 16:39:50 1985
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Reply-To: rick@iddic.UUCP (Rick Coates)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

Well, someone finally came out in favor of paper diapers.  I have a six
month old and have used both cloth and disposable diapers. 

The cloth diapers are from a diaper service that we received as a present.
Washing our own diapers was simply not an option. Both my wife and I have
better (and more profitable - not just financially: time spent playing with
the baby I find more valuable than doing laundry) things to do than wash
diapers. (I was told that they have to be rinsed more than once in warm or
hot water. We are already doing a lot more laundry - has anyone figured in
the cost of hot water in these cost calcutaions?)

Anyway, the baby is wetter with cloth (even double diapering, although it
does help) and the _ONLY_ time she has had a problem with diaper rash is
with cloth diapers - which we change more often.

Also, the cost of disposables is not that much greater - we always use coupons
which save a $1 to $1.50 on a box.

Rick Coates
...!tektronix!iddic!rick

PS - we don't throw dirty diapers away at the beach, or out of car windows.
We don't even dispose of them at anyone else's house. Eliminating paper 
diapers would not solve the problem of people who do things like this.