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Cloth Diapering
MommaA117
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Ever met someone who disliked CD'ing?
MommaA117
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I am all for Cloth Diapering and so excited about it. I'm sure I will love it.
DH comes home from work last night and tells me he was talking to a lady there who tried it for a while and she said she stopped because she really disliked it. Way to encourage my already apprehensive husband lady.
Then today at my shower I got grief on how I'm not going to keep up with it and just switch over after a while. Of course all from people who know nothing about it other than "it's just gross". Um no. I wouldn't have invested this money into it if I wasn't 100% comitted to following through. Ignorance. I felt like it would have been a waste of breath and effort to try to sway their opinion so I didn't even bother. I love my friends but I was not in the mood to preach.
I told DH last night that I have yet to talk to a CD'ing Mom, on here or IRL who has actually done it and disliked it and that most who have tried rave about it.
So, out of curiousity. Anyone ever met anyone who had actually CD'ed and disliked it?
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Re: Ever met someone who disliked CD'ing?
My mom way back when...
But, nope, I don't really know anyone that does CD. My SIL CDs and loves it also.
That's what I was thinking. I don't think my mom really hated it, though, just felt resigned to it (she used flats and pins on my older brother, and tells me she kept thinking, "There must be a better way!" And now there is).
i had a hard time at first because of stink/amonia issues i nearly gave up. but actually having the grobaby disposable inserts kept me in the game until i figured out what was wrong with my cloth inserts.
i fell out of cd'ing when i was having ms with this one. i just couldn't handle the smells or much of anything at that point. washing was too much effort etc...
so i can't say i've disliked it totally, but i've had some challenges that made me question what i was doing...
i honestly don't see it as gross. it might be a weird way to look at it but they're my kids, and i would do anything for them, and that includes having to deal with poopy situations. and actually it's been a lot less gross because we've had no blowouts since using cd's. i think a disposable blowout is worse then plopping poo down the toilet.
I have a friend who CDed (but only used g-diapers) and hated it and switched by the time her baby was a year old.
I don't know if they ever tried anything besides g-diapers. I don't think they did, since we met up with them for breakfast today and she was asking me a lot of questions about pocket diapers.
I know another mom who CD'ed her son eighteen years ago and only used prefolds (she had a free diapering service). Even with the service, she hated it, and switched to disposables once she could afford it.
That being said, I have never met anyone who used pocket, fitted, AIO, etc. cloth diapers and hated it. I've heard nothing but rave reviews for this kind of CD'ing!
whoa, that sounds a little out of the ordinary...
are the appliances the same as you had before or older?
are you washing at a different time of day than before?
just curious...
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I know people who had to give up because of extenuating circumstances, but none that gave up because they've hated it.
I find it to be easy. Just as easy as using disposables.
Most people I've talked to have been really supportive. At my shower my family threw for me, my Grandma and her friends were very supportive. They said I was being very environmentally responsible and that more people should cloth diaper- especially with how easy they are now.
My SIL did tell me she thought I was brave for doing it- she's got 4 kids- 2 in disposables right now. Can you imagine how much money they've spent on diapers and how much they've thrown in the garbage? She's a SAHM, too. It would be so easy for her to do it.
My aunt told me she didn't think I would stick with it, but she commended me for doing it.
Same here. And, to me, it's less gross than sposies. All the poop goes down the toilet (and then, if I need to, I scrub out any "remainder" with a cloth wipe in the sink, so as to avoid stains - I don't even have to touch any poop with my bare hands to do this). To me, it's way yuckier to have a bin full of poopy trash filling up and sitting around.
I only know a few people IRL who CD. One quit pretty early on. She was using gerber prefolds. I actually loaned her my nb stash when her 3rd son was born recently, but I'm not sure how it's going. Another friend's son had digestive problems that made CDing really difficult for her and she gave it up.
I got a lot of discouraging comments while I was pregnant from people who have never CDed and thought it was all prefolds, pins and plastic pants. It made me even more determined to CD and stick to it.
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Have you been to the CD place in our town. Someone told me the store over by Strickland carrys them .
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I know i was determined for it to work because everybody was so negative about it and it has worked. We have less blowouts with CD. i love the pockets