Nappies - where are all the environmentalists!

Hawthorn

We don't touch Nescafe either LOL. Too expensive for us! It was just an example

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

im half and half - meghan is currently shuffling around in Huggies / Pamers but when she starts walking im going to use terry nappies (all brought, washed, dried, ironed and stacked in her wardrobe ready) I was going to use terrys from the first off but she was tiny when born and i couldnt get the hang of them!

practising on a dolly atm lol

Floxxie

Gosh M-o-3 I remember being at uni and protesting against that and then thinking what people in the third world would actually use formula milk - it's not as if they have sterilisers and the rest of the stuff to actually make it up.And why the hell would they want to waste their time doing so when the breast is there and available? If it comes to the point that a child needs feeding, then a child needs feeding..

After a major operation I am unable to feed my children but they haven't perished yet and I can't feel any guilt as they would die if I didn't feed them formula. Yes there is a hell of a lot of grey area....

It is after all major promotion of new ideas that has given us disposable nappies..it doesn't make them any better than formula milk, no matter who makes them and where, but then it doesn't make the producers evil does it?

Floxxie

Floxxie

mommyme wrote: »

im half and half - meghan is currently shuffling around in Huggies / Pamers but when she starts walking im going to use terry nappies (all brought, washed, dried, ironed and stacked in her wardrobe ready) I was going to use terrys from the first off but she was tiny when born and i couldnt get the hang of them!

practising on a dolly atm lol

The person who I bought the nappies off told me that they weren't suitable for newborns (they would be a little baggy) and to try an e-f disposable instead for a few weeks. My son is now 13 weeks and I am moving him over to reusables.
I am really excited as I have received so much negativity - apart from thinking what the hell has it got to do with you, it also made me realise how we conform to buying certain brands with certain promises and if we don't we are odd and arguments are brought up to try and make us conform...crazy really. By the way, talking of conforming, you can now get pretend reusables for the dolly!

Floxxie

Hawthorn

I got stick too Floxxie - mainly my family calling me a sandal wearing greenie/hippy LMAO.

Who cares?

I put my newborns in muslins for the first few weeks. Then the muslins get boil washed and used as cleaning cloths. Bonus! I still have them and they're still going strong from my last little fella five years ago! With terries you can get away with not doing that but they are a little bulky and I preferred the muslins.

Floxxie

Isn't it strange you get called 'names' for trying to do the best for your family?
I don't care any more...it means I'm the one with the pennies in the purse and the clean garden. As I said previously, if you are at work, it doesn't have so much of an impact as it is someone else's mess...but I also have the really bad attitude of 'the problem belongs to someone else and if they can't be ar*ed, so what?' so I really am as 'guilty' as those who use disposables...oh well, we can't all go to heaven....

Floxxie

Cardew

Floxxie wrote: »

I find the slagging off on here unbelievable.

If you read the posts on here, despite the dispute between 2 contributers, I don't think there has been any 'slagging off' on the central issue of reusable v disposable. In fact it has been quite a reasoned debate with little criticism of either side, merely pointing out the reasons for their choice and an attempt to objectively quantify savings.

Sarahsaver

I spoke to OH about this this morning, and from a convenience point of view I will NEVER have to go out and buy nappies, waste space in his car with big packs of nappies, or struggle home from town with nappies perched on the top of the buggy.
But then again people thought I was unusual for making my own baby food too :eek:
i find the marketing aimed at mums during pregnancy really distasteful, i wont even carry my maternity notes in the 'folder' they came in as that is just an advert too :eek:

Hawthorn

LOL, sarah, I made my own food and got strange comments too! Aren't folks strange, huh?
I used this argument - would you want to eat out of a tin constantly? No? Well why should my baby

freddykruggar

Hawthorn wrote: »

As a side note, I did read once that the crystals used in disposable nappies haven't actually been tested properly, and were leaching chemicals into our precious babies skin? Not sure how true this is, or if it has been rectified by this point, or if it's just more fuel to the fire added by the cloth nappy brigade.

Wouldn't surprise me if it was true, given the amount of crap that gets added even to our food.

The crystals that are used are perfectly safe.

They look exactly like sugar and are called SAM or Super Absorbant Material. When exposed to liquid they swell many times and end up looking like wall paper paste, you may have seen some gel on your baby.

A very similar stuff is used in macdonalds milk shakes.

Also dont forget all the harmful detergents you wash down the drains when washing your reuseables. You may think you are being green at home by not throwing nappies away, but you are just moving the chain further down the line and causing problems elsewhere.

As for land fill, modern nappies dont have a plastic outer cover, it is a micro pourous ultra thin cloth sheet that degrades very fast. Modern technology has moved on very fast