Comments on: The #1 Reason Disposable Diapers Suck

By: Naomi Moore

Naomi Moore — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:01:58 +0000

Has anyone seen the latest LUV’s commercial–disgusting and revolting. Honestly, how do you young mothers afford disposable diapers–they are expensive. Limiting changes is not good for the baby’s skin. Good luck to you all!

By: Jessie

Jessie — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:18:09 +0000

This give me a little hope. I’ve been using disposables and have lately had major blowout issues. Everybody just tells me to move up a size. Yes, that helps, but only because now the diaper she’s wearing is so huge on her that it covers half her body. The poop still goes as far as it used to. I’m just going to go out on a limb and say that if you have to cover every inch of your baby in diaper, there’s some flaw in the diaper design. Anyway, I’ve decided to try cloth and see how it goes. Everybody I tell gives me the “aren’t cloths soooo much messier??” I don’t know, but I’m willing to give them a shot!

By: Grumpy Pops

Grumpy Pops — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:24:51 +0000

Just wrap it with ductapes … solves almost all of my problems …

By: Fire Dancer

Fire Dancer — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:47:09 +0000

and i thought i was the only one complaining about the smell of disposables. one little drop of urine, and the diaper has to come off because it makes me feel sick. not only that, but how can mothers wrap their kids in synthetic, chemical laiden hot and sweaty paper and plastic? if parents tested out disposables on themselves, i am sure that they would not want their kids wearing those excuses for diapers. i use the motherease one size diapers now and my son loves them, which is more than i can say about the disposables which he would kick away and roll away from. oh yes, and absolutely no blowouts in these either!

By: Autumn Beck

Autumn Beck — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:49:44 +0000

I appreciate your comments, Sierra. I guess the moral of the story is there are no “good” disposable diapers and convenience is in the eye of the beholder.

By: Sierra

Sierra — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:18:51 +0000

Someone gave a link to Nature Babycare diapers. I just wanted to mention that the company has been in trouble recently for implying that they are 100% compostable/biodegradable. They are something like 70% compostable/biodegradable, better for sure and what I’d like to use as backup (along with gDiapers). I’ve heard they work well (though some have problems with the tabs ripping) but they can run a little small.

The article I found all insulting and one sided, you’d think a more natural diaper company wouldn’t bash cloth so much, it just shows ignorance, essentially claiming that no water goes into the making of there disposables (by claiming the water and energy for washing cloth is not eco).

Also remember that all non breastfed poo is suppose to go into the toilet not the trash, so you are still “dealing” with poo even in a disposable. And I’m sure they still have blow out potential over cloth (more poo dealing).

By: Autumn Beck

Autumn Beck — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:55:22 +0000

Sorry about the broken link! Here ya go: http://www.ultimateguidetoclothdiapers.com/

By: E. Monique Johnson

E. Monique Johnson — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:23:36 +0000

Hello Autumn. I love your site and tried to purchase your ultimate diaper guide, but the link isn't working. I want to check it out before I do exactly what you advised against–ordered hundreds of dollars worth of cloth diapers! We've already done that with “biodegradable/eco-friendly disposables. We've tried gDiapers, and while they work well, they are not “simple” enough for daycare/sitter use, so I ended falling back on Seventh Generation (after trying tushies, Earth's Best and Huggies Pure and Natural). Anyway, I think I may like AIOs like bumGenius, but I want to read your guide before really deciding what to try next.

By: Julie Holland

Julie Holland — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:13:56 +0000

Moms tell me this all the time. Cloth contains messes better than disposables. Of course, when I did a recent test of disposable diapers (see my review of Huggies “organic” diapers on http://www.clothdiaperreviews.com) it was the SMELL that made me go running back to cloth. I have no idea why they stink so bad, but as soon as my kid peed, the smell of the disposables made me feel like I was having morning sickness all over again!

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:09:22 +0000

Thanks for this post! The fact that cloth works better than disposables is one of the main reasons I use cloth. But I never see that mentioned on cloth diapering websites. I think that a lot of disposable users assume that cloth can’t work as well (including me before I started).

I use cloth exclusevly at home and disposables while on overnight trips, but that is about to change. On our Memorial Day weekend trip we had lots of leaks with disposables and my husband gave me a hard time. He said “I thought we decided to use cloth on our trips after what happened last time!” So, I am working on making some “traveling” wet bags and next time we will use cloth!