Yes. I would do it again. My daughter used them too for about seven months then started using disposables when away from home. Diapers are a plague on the planet. The landfills are full of them............along with plastic retail bags. I think both should be outlawed.
I used cloth diapers for both of my daughters. The disposable ones didn't come out until my youngest was about a year old. Disposable diapers were far too expensive to use every day but I kept one package to use when we were traveling.
This is the type of washing machine I used the first two years of their lives:
After that we moved to an apartment with a laundry room.
It wasn't hard to use, it was just more time consuming than your average washing machine.
This post was edited by NYAD at December 18, 2023 8:30 AM MST
That's what I hear my grandmother did. Washed them by hand, then boiled them clean. She's also supposed to have had a hook on the wall, from which the baby could be suspended in a basket or something, to keep it safe from any predators while she went to work in the field.
A woman that I worked with for a number of years married an African Muslim. When she had her children (a girl and a boy), they went to visit his family in Africa. She told me that they didn't use diapers. They slung the baby on their back by a piece of cloth. She said that when the baby urinated, it just ran down her back. She didn't mention what else the baby might do.
This post was edited by NYAD at December 18, 2023 8:31 AM MST
I remember being taught in school that Romans used urine as a laundry detergent (according to some findings in Pompeii). So I guess these people's backpack-babies were like their washing machines...
I’ve always bought the eco-friendly disposable diapers at Walmart. There are several brands from which to choose. If one of my five-year-olds has an accident, which still happens, the loaded underwear still goes in the garbage outside. I’m not washing regular underpants with poo in them either. I just go to the store to buy new underwear for them.
When we had our first child we thought we were going to help save the planet and use cloth diapers . But about ten baby poops later we were running to the store to buy the disposable kind. Cheers!
This post was edited by Nanoose at February 28, 2023 4:58 PM MST
In 1961 when my newborn nephew came home from the hospital, he had a chest to ankle body cast due to hip surgery. No disposables diapers then either. My sister did what she had to do. She had to keep the surgical area clean and keep the cast clean.
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