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my husband refused...wouldn't even listen to any arguments I may have had in favor of cloth.
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Convenience. DH and I can barely keep up with the laundry as is, I can not imagine adding poopy diapers and having a bucket to wash down/separately disposing the liners.
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I really didn't want to extra laundry! Now that LO is here, I'm so thankful we went disposable. She's ebf, 7 weeks old, and still going through almost 10 diapers a day because she poops after every feed. I cannot imagine the laundry that would be involved in cloth diapering for us...
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i so wanted to do cloth diapers. i researched them up the wazoo and read about them constantly while pregnant. while DH wasn't on board, i think i could have convinced him, but it was really daycare. they were not into it. plus, i travel 1.5 hours with LO on public transportation after picking him up from daycare, and i was nervous about bringing a bag full of dirty diapers on the metro, even in a wet bag. i entertained the idea of CD'ing just at home, but after LO arrived i just got lazy!
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@kiddosc: this also! i travel one hour in the mornings to work, and 1.5 hours on the way back when i pick up LO from daycare--so much of my day is already taken up.
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We usually do cloth diaper but lately LO has been in disposables because she gets diaper rash so easily and the cloth diaper safe creams just don't work for her. Hoping to get back to cloth soon!
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Laundry.
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We live in the city and don't have a washer or dryer and use a laundromat/dry cleaner every 3 or 4 weeks. I looked into a diaper service and it was really pricey. I also work full time out of the home and would be leaving the diapering to DH (he works from home).
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We're going to try cloth diapers, but my husband is pretty against it. I'm hoping once we try (after the first few weeks, because we have some newborn diapers), he'll come around. But if he doesn't, and it falls purely to me....I might give it up.
I'll be going back to work full time, with an hour commute each way, so if I don't have a supportive partner, I probably won't be doing all the washing/drying/folding myself and will sell my stash.
Having not tried it yet, I'm not *too* worried about laundry, as I figure it would only be a load every other day and we have a washer/dryer in our house.
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We were planning to use disposables for the first month and then switch to CDs. That hasn't happened. On the car ride home from the hospital, as we were feeling incredibly overwhelmed, and I was facing recovery from a c-section (which turned out to be SO easy, but I didn't know that at the time), I said to DH, "Do you still want to CD?" He said no. He asked me if I wanted to, I said no. It just seemed like everything at that moment had a huge learning curve attached to it and we didn't need to add anything else to our plates. I don't regret it, particularly because it was awhile after my surgery before I was able to do laundry.
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SO, so many reasons. First, I thought sposies were going to cost a LOT more than they do. Happy surprise! Second, neither of us liked the idea of any extra steps especially ones that required scooping poop and more laundry. Three, the initial investment, especially when you don't know what will fit baby best! With sposies you can buy a small pack and then rebuy more if they're great. If I invested in all, say, BumGenius and then they didn't fit baby just right, and something else did? I'm be, well, BUMMED (har har.)
Mostly the cost savings weren't enough to get me to handle that much poop.
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@Anagram: My DH was totally against it too, until I started CDing anyway. Now he loves it - mostly the money savings, but having less chemicals on LO as well. I still do all the laundry though, but that's cause I'm overprotective of my stash lol
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Bad memories. I remember having to rinse out my sister's poopy diapers. *shudder*. I don't care how much better the diapers have gotten, I just don't wannaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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@ValentineMommy: that's good to hear! Like a lot of people, he equates CDing with touching poop, even though I've explained that you don't need to touch any poop during the EBF stage, and even after, we can get liners. PLUS, he's totally unaware of how often babies have total up-the-neck blowouts in regular diapers and how you STILL have to deal with it. I witnessed too many of those blowouts with my little sis, neices and nephews to think that sposies means you'll never be around poop.
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1. Laundry
2. Initial cost (what if they don't work with my LO, etc)
3. Spraying poop out of diapers - THEN washing them
4. I have to go to work and wouldn't expect daycare/MIL to CD
5. Disposables are more convenient
6. I'm not very "green" so that isn't a selling point for me.
7. DH would NEVER go for all the extra work & I have no interest in adding to my workload
8. I'm having a boy, so them showing under dresses doesn't matter for us -
Laundry and poop scooping
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I wanted to, even bought a stash, but DH hated them, was grossed out by them. So I would have been on solo diapering and washing duty. Combined with the fact that our daycare wouldn't take them it seemed like a lost cause so I sold them all.
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Shared laundry is $6 to wash and dry. Sposies are cheaper.
Our city composts diapers so the Eco benefits aren't that much greater.
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We use cloth diapers but here are some of the reasons we still use disposables on occasion.
1. Overnight. Night time she wakes up soaked even in a disposable. I didn't want to invest in super bulky overnight diapers so we still use disposables at night.
2. When we travel. I have taken CD's to my moms house but anywhere else its way too much to travel with, etc. It does make me cringe though to go through a $30 box of diapers in a week though.
3. When the CD's aren't stuffed and ready to use. Throwing them in the wash isn't a big deal for me at all but stuffing kinda sucks but AIOs are more expensive.
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@ValentineMommy: @Anagram ha, same! DH was ambivalent about it pre-LO but now tells other people about them and how easy they are.
We used newborn cloth and now one-size cloth but there was a time in between when he fit in neither that we used disposables. It was easy, in some ways, but harder in some ways. Now we just use a disposable overnight and sometimes if we're traveling and it seems more convenient.
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I actually did it full time for a few months and then jumped and ran from the bandwagon.
I got sick of the laundry. Got sick of worrying about if they were going to be dry in time to wear. Got sick of being addicted to buying cute cloth. Got sick of the CONSTANT rashes she was getting from them, no matter what we tried.
In the end, disposables have been better for our family.
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I never really considered them. I had a girlfriend do them and she has much more time and patience than me and they stressed her out (and she is seriously super mom). It was enough to make me not want to even try.
For the same reasons most of the other ladies have mentioned, and it's just not for our family!
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We don't have LOs yet, but I have no desire to. I don't think it's the norm here, as I don't know one person who uses CDs and a lot of my friends are moms.
Too much laundry for me, I HATE laundry as it is!
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A lot of the same reasons as everyone else. The biggest thing is, I think you choose what you put the extra effort into. There is going to be so much new stuff when the baby gets here, I just can't see adding cloth diapers to that. I don't want the extra laundry, I wouldn't get support from anyone in my family (I don't know anyone around here that CDs, I have two FB friends that do and that's it.) When you factor in all the extra laundry and our not very efficient washer and dryer, I'm not sure it would be much better for the environment. Since we do want two kids, I do believe it would be cheaper, but I'm willing to pay for the convenience of throwing out the poop!
(I do, however, realize that you handle just as much poop with disposables and cloth, just in different ways!)
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@Foodnerd81: I think you hit the nail on the head with this comment about handling poop no matter what.
People don't realize you're supposed to put poop in the toilet, disposable or cloth diaper.
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Our daycare supplies disposable diapers and wipes. She is over 6 months old and we have not had to spend a dime on diapers/wipes so far. Since we use so few at home, we are still using ones we got at baby showers. Disposables are by far cheaper for us. Free, so far, actually.
No one in my family was on board with cloth diapering. DH didn't want to. Our families didn't want to. I didn't want to.
Also, laundry is my least favorite chore. I would never willingly add to it when there is a throw-away option.
I also didn't want to waste the extra water or put pee/poop into our washing machine/dryer that washes the rest of our clothes and linens.
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I also never considered them since I'm a full time WOHM with an hour and a half commute each way as well. I leave for the day at 5pm and don't get home until 6:30. LO goes to bed at 8:30. The last thing that I want to do with my precious 2 hours with him and precious 2 hours of alone time once he goes to bed is clean out cloth diapers. Disposables were much more convenient for us.
@looch: Yeah, with how messy LO's poops are, that just plain doesn't happen!
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@aprk: I love my cloth diapers too, I had to stop using them though because LO developed a bad rash and I need to use stronger rash creams
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@looch: Oh-- no, I'm not putting the poop from the disposables in the toilet! (I do know I'm supposed to, but only from HB). I mean the extra blow outs that I hear you get from disposable more than cloth, and the fact that babies and poop go hand in hand, period.
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@Foodnerd81: can I be honest? I think the disposables=more blowouts is fiction, not fact! I've done both, and my son's only had one or two diaper malfunctions, and it was when we were newbie parents.
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@Foodnerd81: @looch: I agree. We've had blowouts with both.
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I never had blow outs with cloth diapers, but I had really terrible blow outs and leaks with disposables
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I really want to CD and I might still do it on the weekends, but I will be a WOHM and we live in an 800 sq ft apartment with only one bathroom and two sinks total so this was really pushing it. So not only do we not have the time to keep up with the cleaning/laundry cycle of CD'ing, we don't have the facilities to make it work for us. It's hard enough sharing a bathroom with the two of us doing 'regular' bathroom activites, if one of us was constantly in there washing/cleaning diapers it would be a total nightmare.
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It just wasn't on our radar. More laundry is seriously off putting. When she was EBF I could have seen doing it, but now that this $#!t is real (so to speak) I don't wanna mess with it. We've thrown out a shirt she had a blow out in insted of rinsing and trying to salvage it! lol!
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Convenience and lack of time working out of home.
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Oh, thought of another reason we quit. I hated how all her clothes fit all weird with them.
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I have zero desire to, and I am not at all conviced that it would be any cheaper for us. I don't get how people go through a $30 box of dipes in a week, my DD can't even get through one of those in a month!
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No baby yet for us, and I'm on the fence on this one.
The main reason I would consider it would be for environmental reasons. I read a lot about whether it's really the greener option, and it seems like a bit of a wash. I would love it if our town had a place to compost diapers--that seems like the perfect solution!
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@looch: We've done cloth and disposables as well and did notice more poop-on-the-clothes action (not blowouts per say) with the disposables. So I guess your mileage may vary
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@oliviaoblivia: I wouldn't CD if our laundry was shared! Even if it was just $1 a load. So shared and $6 a load?! No way.
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