Negative reactions to CDing

lovebook

So, I experience a fair number of negative reactions from people (not any who know me well) regarding our plans to CD LO when he/she arrives ...

Most times, their negative reasoning is pretty predictable: can't keep up with laundry and newborn, it can be messy, lots more work.

Yesterday, though, I got the WORST negative reason EVER to not CD - this woman told me that I wouldn't keep up with it because the kid is always wet in a CD vs sposie.  Um, hello, McFly - your kid doesn't pee/poo any less or more in a CD vs. a sposie!!!! ... the CD just isn't filled with awful chemicals and coated in plastic so parents & kids potentially recognize the diaper is soiled faster than if they were in a sposie.

I felt so bad for her kids (currently teenagers) because I can only imagine that they must have been hanging out in their own filth an awful lot because the mother didn't think their diapers were dirty.  Not to mention feeling bad for her future grandchildren if she ever babysits them!

papie

Well, they do get more wet with CDs. ?People tend to leave the sposies on longer because they feel dry to touch, whereas the CD will feel wet. ?I'm not saying sposies are better (we switched to CD) but I don't see what is so wrong in what she said. ?

tommigirle

i totally get what you're saying--lots of moms i see at the park, at baby groups, etc. don't change their kiddos that often b/c they don't "feel" wet. well, they still are wet! i try to change my dd every 2 hours, even now. i just don't like the thought of her sitting in her own pee.

 with that said, there are some cd's that have a "stay dry" layer of fleece or suedecloth. you can use that for ammo next time!

ams6404

I know what you mean about negative reactions...

My mom, who works as a tax prepaper for H&R Block, has apparently been telling clients that come in with babies or young kids about her first grandchild's impending arrival and the fact that we are planning to cloth diaper (why she brings this up, I'm not sure!)  Anyway, then she reports back to me when people say "I give her a month!" or today it was "I give her two weeks!"  (They are especially critical when they find out that I'll be going back to work after my 16 weeks off).  GRRR... it is so annoying!!  We WILL be cloth diapering, no matter now hard it turns out to be, because that is what we WANT to do!  It's not like we're doing it for convenience... argh, anyway, sorry, but yes, it does get annoying to hear things like that!!

*speedracer*

if you don't want negative reactions, then don't bring it up.  esp since you don't have a kid just yet. 

FinallyThatGirl

We get the same reactions. I just ignore them and do what I want to do.

The first week we will use seventh generation diaper's or something hypo allergenic and organic once the meconium poo has ended... then I will move on to our cloth. Im making my mom use organic diapers since she wont use cloth. MIL thinks cloth is fantastic and even bought some to have at her house.

lovebook

*speedracer*:

if you don't want negative reactions, then don't bring it up.  esp since you don't have a kid just yet. 

 True, currently I'm just planning to make a go at CDing our LO - that said, it actually came up because she was going on and on about how she hopes I bf and one of the reasons she's pro-bf is because she thinks it's better for the environment so that opened the door for me to tell her (thinking she would be supportive) we're also wanting to CD. 

Generally, in conversations with people I don't know, it doesn't come up so this was an unusal circumstance. 

nkintzel

FinallyThatGirl:

We get the same reactions. I just ignore them and do what I want to do.

The first week we will use seventh generation diaper's or something hypo allergenic and organic once the meconium poo has ended... then I will move on to our cloth. Im making my mom use organic diapers since she wont use cloth. MIL thinks cloth is fantastic and even bought some to have at her house.

We used CD's from the first moment. We just put a paper towel in the diaper for the meconium. Its actually not a week long. It was only a couple of diapers for us. I know a paper towel is still disposable, but it beats buying an entire package of disposable diapers. Also, why is it up to your mom? just wondering. I wouldn't buy any sposies for my mom if she "refused" to CD. Its my baby. She'll cope. A question...what is an "organic" sposie? Organic petroleum? Like, oil that only came from dinosaurs that didn't eat other dinosaurs that had pesticides on them?

Sorry...I guess that sounded bitchtastic...I'm just curious about what an organic disposable is.

MrsAHoffman

papie:

Well, they do get more wet with CDs. ?People tend to leave the sposies on longer because they feel dry to touch, whereas the CD will feel wet. ?I'm not saying sposies are better (we switched to CD) but I don't see what is so wrong in what she said.

I know what you're saying and that's what the lady probably meant.

Still though... I kind of bugs me when people have the mentality that "if the wetness isn't touching baby's skin, it's not there."?

To think/ act as if the baby is not wet in a disposable but they are wet in a CD means that the baby is sitting in pee a LOT longer than they should be. At least with the CD their skin is breathing. ?

I worked at a daycare and one of the employees saw it this way and didn't want to change diapers as often as I did because "diapers are expensive." ?Umm... yeah but the kid is sitting in pee.

Oh well ?

You can't win 'em all I guess. ?

AmandaHearn

I think my favorite thing about sposie users (even when I was one) is that they get all wrapped up in "this diaper is crazy absobent, yadda yadda, I can go 23490845 hours w/out her needing changed"

Yes, I want my diaper to be absorbent enough not to leak.  I don't want it to hold a days worth of urine.  Thanks!