Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site iddic.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!iddic!rick 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 Article-I.D.: iddic.2141 Posted: Thu Aug 22 16:39:50 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:46:01 EDT References: <246@drutx.UUCP> <496@riccb.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@iddic.UUCP (Rick Coates) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 24 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.