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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: cloth diapers
Message-ID: <1185@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 16:09:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: teddy.1185
Posted: Thu Aug 22 16:09:45 1985
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Reply-To: rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 

In article <496@riccb.UUCP> jmc@riccb.UUCP (Jeff McQuinn ) writes:
>> 
>> 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.

The experience of myself and many others is that double diapering solves that
problem. My oldest uses disposables occasionally, and he is a much bigger
mess in the morning with them than with cloth diapers.

>  
>>   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.
>  

This is nonsense (unless you use epoxy on the disposables!) My kids are
fascinated (fastenated?) by the little tape tabes, and usually rip them
off in short order. They have yet to open a pin.
>>   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.

This makes little sense, especially from the empirical data of my own and
the rest of the net. My youngest (4 months) will develop a bad rash within
an hour of being diapered in disposables, but has not had a single problem
with cloth. I don't buy the argument about soap. I suspect that all the
soap that is absorbable is done so in the first wash, and reaches some
equalibrium thereafter. Or do you pull them out before the rinse cycle :-)?

>
>>   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! 
>
Who cares? Have your ever tried diapering your kids in the Wall Street Journal
though?