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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: cloth diapers
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 13:03:26 EDT
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> >   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.

We have two kids who are/have-been on diapers.  We generally use cloth at
home, but disposables when travelling, shopping, etc.  We have much more
problem with disposables when the kids are in disposables.

When we had our first, our doctors told us that for avoiding diaper rash,
a bare bottom the best; next a cloth diaper without plastic pants; next,
a cloth diaper with plastic pants; worst, disposables.  Our experience
has been consistent with this.

		Steve Vegdahl
		Computer Research Lab.
		Tektronix, Inc.
		Beaverton, Oregon