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I Cut the Pampers Diaper Open (eta PIPs)
From the inside out:
Waxy feeling mesh (this is what touches baby's bottom)
A dryer sheet (also touches baby's bottom thru the mesh. Very coarse & easily tears)
Stuffing like filling w/ hard little tiny beads
Another dryer sheet
Plastic
Soft, thin cotton-like material (the very outside of the diaper, and oddly, the softest and least waxy feeling part of the entire diaper)
The very first dryer sheet (the one right under the mesh) is not attatched on the sides, so if baby pees, and the beads & fiber swell, it can (and appearently does) come out from under the dryer sheet and come in direct contact with a child's bottom, thus leading to chemical burns.
Also, after I played with diaper few a bit, before cutting it, the fill started comming out like dust. So if a child gets into their diaper bag, they can INHALE the dust pretty damnn easily. Or get it in their mouth or eyes.
Oh, and blowouts are guaranteed, since there is no elastic in the back, and the top 4" of the back of a NB diaper is just mesh, dryer sheet & plastic, all glued tightly together.
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Re: I Cut the Pampers Diaper Open (eta PIPs)
Posts on cloth trainers/PLing
Me too!
And yuck. I am slowly but surely becoming a "that sposie will not touch my baby!" mama.
Working on it PIPs. Saxton stuck his finger on the lense of DH's p&s (my camera needs a new battery)
I did it on the porch (it's pouring down rain right now)
Wow. I didn't really need convincing, but that just added fuel to the fervor for me.
I can't wait to see pictures, though.
Mother's Day, 2011
::lurker coming out::
Ewwwwww. I'm interested in seeing the pics, as well.
holy crap.
is this the dry max one that's causing such a big stink?
MamaPhan|boy (n): a noise with dirt on it
Yup!
thanks for posting, jenni.
we have to use sposies for the one day d's in school (i've exhausted myself trying to convince his teacher on CDs) and i've only been using baby dry lately. might be time to switch.
MamaPhan|boy (n): a noise with dirt on it
Interesting!
You should put the drymax stuff in some water and see what it does.
Dang.
The descriptions were creepy enough, but the picture of that dust...wow.
Mother's Day, 2011
Cycle #11: BFP
What is even worse is when they get really wet (I mean like overnight or run into a kiddie pool wet). All of the little gel beads swell up and come out of the diaper. They stick like glue to the baby's skin and are IMPOSSIBLE to get off. They remind me of that "magic snow" stuff that you just add water to and it puffs up. Gross
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Little man will be in his CD's from day one!?
Good idea!
:::goes to find a easy to photograph thru the glass, glass:::
that looks like a pampers swaddler. they have redone those, but the big backlash over chemical burns is over the new pampers cruisers. The swaddlers do still have drymax in them, but I think they aren't pushing the "your kid can wear this for 12 hours" angle so much with the swaddlers.
We use sposies at daycare because they won't use cloth. We stopped using cruisers because the old style gave DD a horrible rash. I had a few of the old style swaddlers in her diaper bag and used them a few weeks ago when she was on antibiotics - those also gave her a bit of a rash (she hadn't pooped in them so it wasn't from the meds). I don't know what I was thinking when I used them - her butt definitely was more rashy back in our full time sposie days than it is now!