Comments on: In a Moment of Weakness, Don’t Be Fooled!

By: nancey

nancey — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:54:57 +0000

loved my cloth diapers and diaper covers. never had rashes, leaking problems, etc with the cloth, and i just washed them myself. Babysitters initially didn’t like cloth diapers, but when they had to start paying for trash pick up, and saw how much more they had to pay with paper diapers, they soon converted. My mother was used to cloth diapers from my brothers and i. paper diapers weren’t even an option then, but thought paper diapers would make my life easier. i was in the middle of residency, and in my 40’s when i had my kids, but once she saw my system with diaper pail and baking soda, and they were all breast fed, so their poop wasn’t particularly bad, she agreed it was pretty easy. I had a regular washing machine, she had an old wringer washer that was much more time consuming.
i used a very soft diaper that was shaped with multicolored thread edging around it. and i don’t remember who made it. i would love to get some for a friend of mine but haven’t been able to find them. any suggestions?

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By: Yara

Yara — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:27:18 +0000

I saw those today. This was after I ran to whole foods at 730 am to get a pack of g-diapers upon realizing I had not packed enough diapers yesterday for an unplanned overnight trip. : /
I decided I need to instead, make a stash of cloth diapers to keep at my parents house permanently so I don’t have to go buy disposables/flushables, ever again. Maybe I’ll put a half dozen in the car, too…

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:05:53 +0000

hahaha….saw these too….I guess I’m really skeptical because I looked at the package for about 10 seconds and figured it was just a marketing ploy (well, they probably do use organic cotton, but that doesn’t make the rest of it ‘pure and natural’)….Anyway, I keep a bag of Nature Babycare dipes around for my mom and my mother-in-law to use when they babysit (the babysitter uses cloth though since I pay her).

By: Autumn Beck

Autumn Beck — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:04:28 +0000

Yep, Skye, you are right. There are brands though that do not contain gel crystals. I buy Natural Choice from HEB (grocery store here in Texas) if I need a disposable…like when Sterling was born and my mother-in-law took the older and I didn’t want her to cloth diaper Paisley

By: Skye

Skye — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:45:25 +0000

Myndee, FYI….7th Gen has the gel too! As far as I understand it, the only difference in 7th gen. is that they don’t use bleach in the processing. I may be wrong here, let me know if I am

By: Myndee

Myndee — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:50:54 +0000

I got the free sample and tried them. First off, they smell more “chemically” than regular disposables; secondly, they leak. Sooooo, we will for sure be sticking with 7th Gen whenever we need to use a disposable. Thanks for posting this!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:06:16 +0000

Perfect timing! I just spotted these at the store and couldn’t find on the package what the diapers were actually made of…hmmm…pretty sneaky!

By: Melody

Melody — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:40:20 +0000

Hmm. Thanks for posting this. I was thinking of buying a package or two for convenience after this little one arrives, but had forgotten about the gel. Thanks for the reminder!

Looks like I should just get busy sewing some more AIO/pocket dipes and just have them handy instead!

By: becca

becca — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:05:51 +0000

great post!! I was wondering about this very thing when I got a free sample of huggies natural diapers in the mail this week!!