Supposedly there is a diaperless baby movement that touts the benefits of being environmental and eases the toilet-training process. If you want to go green, I see cloth being a better option… I really don’t get this. Has anyone had experience with going diaperless.
And no, I don’t have kids. But when I do, they will likely wear diapers. Can’t imagine trying to explain that to the babysitter…
There are a couple of families in the local Mom’s group that are into this…they all vow that after a few weeks they can read the signs when the kid is going to pee/poo and they get to the toilet in time with very few accidents.
We use disposables because in our efforts to go green we got rid of the dryer and line dry everything. Cloth daipers, especially at this time of year, just wouldn’t be possible.
I only have the experience of one, but unless you want to be doing your own laundry 10+ times per day this is pretty silly.
Cloth is not always “greener” especially in places that have water access/availability issues. It’s pretty close to a “wash” on the environmental friendliness of each choice.
I have read that babies in Europe are toilet trained earlier (don’t remember where or why). I can see trying to get in touch with a 1 year olds “movements” but I’d like to see the person who tries to do it with a new born… good luck
Going green with a diaperless baby… sounds like a wicked case of the splats!
We try to find ways to reduce waste, but we’ll be diapers all the way when we have our next one. As far as I’m concerned, those onesie outfits are disposable- I used to cut them off my daughter when she had an “out of diaper” experience rather than try to take them off over her head- poor messy baby. My wife was not happy, but saw my point on this one…
If it would prevent “I just spent 10 minutes tearing off your outfit, cleaning the poop out of your hoohaa, putting on a fresh diaper, only to hear the sounds of liquidy poop 30 seconds later” syndrome, I’m all for it!
Ha! If I showed this to my wife, and suggested we try it, she’d castrate me on the spot! Maybe… maybe you can do this with a singleton, but just try to keep your eyes on two or more at a time and see how often you can avoid urine and poop stains in the carpet. I think we’ll stick with diapers for the twins.
Maybe this would be possible if you are going to keep your eye on your baby/toddler 100% of the time. That is not reality though. We have 4 kids all 7 and under. Two are in diapers. The youngest goes every morning in the last hour to 2 before waking up. Am I going to stand there at 6am and wait for the signs and rush them to the potty? I don’t think so. Also not going to use cloth if I have a choice. We would be washing sheets everyday plus all the diapers.
With that being said, it somewhat discusts me how many diapers are in our landfills… gross. But there is not another great option at this point…
That sounds a bit extreme, especially the part in the second article where it recommends bringing a bucket or pail to hold the baby over when out in public. I agree that cloth would be a better option if you want to go green; my wife and I recently attended a cloth diaper workshop for when our daughter arrives in March and they have changed a lot from what our moms used on us.
The Russian orphanage my son lived in for the first five years of his life did not use diapers for toddlers. They sat all of the kids on pots until they did their business. It became quite the social time as the kids would bounce their pots over to their friends and hang out together.
I’ve heard about this too but from what I’ve read this method is training the parent/caregiver to “read” when the baby needs to go. So it is really potty training the parent, not the child. Babies do actually usually “go” on a relatively predictable schedule but I don’t think they can control the need/urge until they are developmentally a little further along in life.
Got a daughter too, huh? What amazes me is that a body that small can generate that much pressure- I mean, up to the base of the neck?!?!
I have a 16 month old daughter who thankfully hasn’t had a neck turd for about 6 months. A few weeks ago I was visiting with friends who had a new baby…3 months old. I was holding the little guy and asked his dad if he’d blown out any daipers yet…“oh no, we use Huggis, I hear they can’t blow them out.”
As if on que the little guy lets rip with a huge dump. I pass him off to dad who takes him upstairs for a change…you should have heard the yelling from the bathroom. Right up the back and out the neck.
I’ve been reading this thread with a big smile on my face but this has me confused. I do not have kids so I don’t know what you’re talking about (someday I’d like to have kids, though)…what do you mean by “up to the base of the neck?” Does the poop get up there? How?
this thread ranks up there with the creatures in the pool thread…LOL.
I agree that the parents are trained on these kids and if that is how they want to spend their lives good for them.
I did cloth with both my kids. When in Oregon used a diaper service, but after moving east did my own - the newer cloth diapers are shaped with snaps etc and the out of diaper blowouts never happened with them. So beyond the green thing (water is a renewable resource landfills are not) it was easier/cleaner and much fewer rashes because cloth breathes…
**what do you mean by “up to the base of the neck?” **
Exactly what it says- they blow mud out of the back of the diaper and it blasts all the way up to their hair (my daughter was born with a full head of black curly hair, so this was always a horrifying event)
Does the poop get up there?
Oh yes.
How?
One of the great mysteries of parenthood. I’m trying to contract with Stephen Hawking to help explain the physics of this, because I sure as hell can’t!
