Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site riccb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!riccb!jmc From: jmc@riccb.UUCP (Jeff McQuinn ) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Re: cloth diapers Message-ID: <496@riccb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 08:56:44 EDT Article-I.D.: riccb.496 Posted: Wed Aug 21 08:56:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 03:43:27 EDT References: <246@drutx.UUCP> Organization: Rockwell Telecommunications, Downers Grove,Il. Lines: 44 > > I found cloth diapers to be: > > 1. More absorbant. Not any more. My two year old and my seven month old are well able to go a whole night on one diaper, very rarely are the diapers "soaked" in the morning. > 2. Stayed on better. Not anymore, my oldest (now 7) used cloth diapers exclusively and on occasion crawled out of them, but not often. My two youngest who have been using disposables exclusively have never crawled out of one. Of course they are all refastenable now. > 3. Cheaper. Of course. This is where cloth has it all out over disposable. Two dozen cloth diapers cost about $20 to $30 and last until the kid outgrows the need. (Quantity depends on how often you want to wash them) A case of disposables cost $35 and only lasts a month or two. > 4. Better for baby. Neither of my children had a diaper rash Here I totally disagree. Cloth diapers accumulate soap after repeated washing unless they are occasionally washed with vinager. The soap causes rashes. Cloth diapers do nothing to keep moisture away from the skin, they merely keep it from falling on the floor. No matter how good you are at diapering you will eventually stab your kid with a pin. Disposables "breathe", plastic pants don't. > 5. Make the best rags when your little ones learn to use the bathroom. > There is nothing better for cleaning windows than old diapers. > I have treasured mine--and am down to my last 3. Sigh. I'll agree with all of this except that there is something better for cleaning glass. Newspaper! (you have to try it to believe it) A professional window washer put me on to newspaper, it doesn't leave "lint" on the glass, it's hard to streak with it, and you get to get rid of old newspaper between paint jobs! Jeff McQuinn just VAXing around