![]() Buy five dozen gauze prefolds and call it good. those were the days, being able to buy rubber pants at the supermarket. I did that on occasion. So convenient it was being able to take care of the grocery shopping while at the same time, arrive home with necessary rubber pants for baby without having to make a separate special trip to the department store. No fancy-schmancy anything, because if I understand the new modern version of cloth diapers correctly, a lot of what's out there today doesn't even perform that well, which tells me, fashion ahead of reliability.Īh. Diapering should be about diapering (utilitarian style), nothing more. and maybe I'm just old-school, but since when did cloth diapering have to be an all-out fashion show? Cloth diapering IMO shouldn't be a fashion show. Definitely not for me, as I was a staunch rubber pants user, but always interesting to learn how others used cloth in their homes.Īs for the newfangled modern cloth, I'm lost, too. She used them for naptime, night-time and outings, but diapered her children without them (for the most part) when she was at home. I recall an old neighbour of ours going the half-measure when it came to the use of rubber pants. The only time my kids suffered from chaffing, burning, and rashing, was during the summer months, and I attributed much of it due to the rubber pants. I remember the burst of super-heated moist air that would escape from out of their diapers when I'd pull off their rubber pants. I always knew they had a rash by the smell. ![]() Nothing worse than having a child with a sensitive bottom. The pocket diapers were expensive (~$20 each), but once I bought them we were set from infancy through potty training the 7th generations were expensive and would have been a reoccurring cost. In the end, all I found that worked was 7th generation disposables or pocket diapers with stay-dry fleece inside. It was a catch 22, the prefolds held the urine up against his skin which caused bleeding rashes (even if I changed him every hour), but switching to disposables to keep his skin dry caused rashes due to the chemicals. Elliot's skin was/is super sensitive and prefolds gave him horrible rashes. This was so true for my eldest and my youngest, and so not true for my middle son. Baby/toddler didn't grow out of them but rather, they grew into them. ![]() Yes, traditional flat diapers, the staple in my home when my kids were in diapers. The vinyl/plastic used for the pants was much thinner and tore more easily than the old, and the elastics weren't as durable. I remember that from changing nephews and nieces. I recall the quality of rubber pants going downhill by the late 80's/early 90's. When it came to odour, the plastic diaper pail did a wonderful job containing any smells, but when you lifted the lid, whew! I had fun with those, that was basically my crafty outlet during that time period. Basically a really large piece of soft absorbent fabric, but it was an official diaper. The plastic pants from BabiesRUs weren't in the same league as the Gerber ones. My aunt had gone to a Gerber outlet store and bought prefolds and plastic pants. Also meant we rarely had to strip the diapers. ![]() So, the pee diaper never had an ammonia smell. One with diluted ammonia remover for pee diapers and one with enzyme stuff for poopy diapers. We kept two spray bottles in the bathroom. It converts ammonia into something super mild and easily cleanable. It would have been available then, but probably no one had thought of it.
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