Diapers
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valleester — 18 years ago(February 25, 2008 01:55 PM)
Can you imagine what it would have been like for Peter to choose diapers on the cuff these days? Cloth (with pins, buttons OR velcro,) disposables, gdiapers, organic cloth, organic sposies. . . . Then there are the different ways to dispose of them- a diaper service, the diaper genie, the diaper genie II, the diaper champ, the new odor minimizing system with charcoal. . . .
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ExplorerDS6789 — 18 years ago(February 25, 2008 06:14 PM)
"disposables, gdiapers, organic cloth, organic sposies:
What are g-diapers, organic cloth and organic sposies??!
"a diaper service"
My grandfather worked for a diaper delivery service back in the day.
"the diaper genie, the diaper genie II"
Is there a difference?
"the new odor minimizing system with charcoal"
That sounds like a plus, but why charcoal?
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valleester — 18 years ago(February 25, 2008 07:55 PM)
Organic cloth diapers are cloth diapers made from all-natural, unchemically fertilized materials such as cotton or hemp. Organic cloth diapers are considered to be amongst the most environmentally friendly ways of containing a baby's waste material. Organic 'sposies or (as they are more commonly known in the states,) disposables are disposable diapers that are less earth friendly than organic cloth diapers, but are still considered to be better for the environment (due to their strict use of unchemically treated renewable resources,) than your run of the mill generic disposable diaper. G-diapers are diapers that consist of a cloth cover and a flushable disposable lining; they are meant to be a marriage between the best of the cloth (in that the outer-shell is reusable,) and disposable (being that the liners can be discarded so that parents don't have to deal with the stinkiness that can build up in waiting for a diaper service to come every day to pick up a stock pile of soiled diapers,) worlds.
It's neat that your grand-dad worked for a diaper service. Every time I hear the words diaper service, I imagine some guy in a 50's style white uniform driving up in a big, shiny truck with a stork on the side of it pulling up in front of a light blue ranch style house with white shutters and a flower box with white geraniums in the window.
There are slight differences in the diaper genie and the diaper genie II. With the diaper genie, a person had to twist the diaper in the in bag to facilitate disposal. You don't have to do that with the diaper genie II. It's got a seven-layer film and locking clamp that's supposed to suppress odors and there's probably more that differentiates it from the original, but I can't remember. I ended up getting the Diaper Champ because I didn't want to end up paying for expensive refills.
I'm not sure, but I think the charcoal is supposed to be to the diaper pail what baking soda is supposed to be to a dirty refrigerator. Shrugs Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. I just couldm't justify the cost of that system when I could just as easily throw the contents of my pail out every day and achieve similar results. But I can easily see a guy who's unused to and even frightened by poopy diapers opting for whatever promises to be the least stinky. -
ExplorerDS6789 — 18 years ago(February 25, 2008 10:38 PM)
"Organic cloth diapers are cloth diapers made from all-natural, unchemically fertilized materials such as cotton or hemp. Organic cloth diapers are considered to be amongst the most environmentally friendly ways of containing a baby's waste material. Organic 'sposies or (as they are more commonly known in the states,) disposables are disposable diapers that are less earth friendly than organic cloth diapers, but are still considered to be better for the environment (due to their strict use of unchemically treated renewable resources,) than your run of the mill generic disposable diaper. G-diapers are diapers that consist of a cloth cover and a flushable disposable lining; they are meant to be a marriage between the best of the cloth (in that the outer-shell is reusable,) and disposable (being that the liners can be discarded so that parents don't have to deal with the stinkiness that can build up in waiting for a diaper service to come every day to pick up a stock pile of soiled diapers,) worlds."
Fascinating.
"It's neat that your grand-dad worked for a diaper service. Every time I hear the words diaper service, I imagine some guy in a 50's style white uniform driving up in a big, shiny truck with a stork on the side of it pulling up in front of a light blue ranch style house with white shutters and a flower box with white geraniums in the window. :)"
Right. Were you around back then?
"I ended up getting the Diaper Champ because I didn't want to end up paying for expensive refills."
Yeah, nobody wants that.
"But I can easily see a guy who's unused to and even frightened by poopy diapers opting for whatever promises to be the least stinky."
Which is probably why the changing of diapers is traditionally a woman's job. -
valleester — 18 years ago(February 25, 2008 11:30 PM)
"Right. Were you around back then?"
:P. No. I think I saw a similar scene in a movie once. Anyway, it's one of the places that I like to go to in my mind. I'd like to live in that world. It just seems like a more innocent time.
"Which is probably why the changing of diapers is traditionally a woman's job."
Actually, I know a lot of new moms that were equally afraid of poopy diapers. I'll admit that the poop bothered me at first. If I'd been a new mom when the Diaper Dekor with the charcoal filter came out, I probably would have opted for it, too. -
ExplorerDS6789 — 18 years ago(February 26, 2008 12:48 AM)
"Actually, I know a lot of new moms that were equally afraid of poopy diapers. I'll admit that the poop bothered me at first. If I'd been a new mom when the Diaper Dekor with the charcoal filter came out, I probably would have opted for it, too."
Interesting. I've personally never done it before, but I doubt it's as horrible as everyone makes it out to sound. -
valleester — 18 years ago(February 26, 2008 11:12 AM)
The first time is pretty gross because the poop is the meconium stool (all of the poop that's built up over the time the baby was in the womb,) but after that, it's really not the changing that's so bad. However, after dirty diapers have built up in the diaper pail throughout the day, the pail gets pretty stinky. It's the cleaning of the pail that's nasty. My (unsolicited) advice? When it comes to be your time, don't bother with a diaper pail. Just put your dumpster next to your back door and take every dirty diaper immediately out to the dumpster. That way, you won't waste beau coup bucks on an expensive pail, nor will you have to deal with diaper pail stinkiness.
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ExplorerDS6789 — 18 years ago(February 26, 2008 07:28 PM)
"The first time is pretty gross because the poop is the meconium stool (all of the poop that's built up over the time the baby was in the womb"
Wow, I didn't know that. Educational.
"That way, you won't waste beau coup bucks on an expensive pail, nor will you have to deal with diaper pail stinkiness."
Why not just toss them into the garbage can and take it out with the rest of the trash?
You know what really grinds my gears? When people leave dirty diapers in shopping carts! I work at Target and I gather carts out in the parking lot, and many's the time I've found loaded diapers left in them. How sickening is that? And just how lazy are these parents who just leave their child's waste in shopping carts?! Once I've found three in one cart. Musta been triplets!
And naturally when I find them, I'm the one who has to throw them away. -
valleester — 18 years ago(February 26, 2008 09:50 PM)
"Why not just toss them into the garbage can and take it out with the rest of the trash?"
If you want your house to smell like an undrained port-a-potty, that would be the way to go.
Seriously, just take it out as it happens. It doesn't take much more energy than walking the diaper to the garbage pail.
"You know what really grinds my gears? When people leave dirty diapers in shopping carts! I work at Target and I gather carts out in the parking lot, and many's the time I've found loaded diapers left in them. How sickening is that? And just how lazy are these parents who just leave their child's waste in shopping carts?! Once I've found three in one cart. Musta been triplets!"
OY! I hate that! And it seems like every time I go to the store, someone has left something gross like a diaper, a used tissue or a used plastic fork or spoon from the sample stations. shudders Sometimes, I wish I had the money to spring for my own shopping cart.
But when it comes to retail grossness, if a couple of dirty diapers are all you've had to deal with, you got off light. While I was working at a certain books, movies and video retailer, I went into the ladies restroom to find that some woman had pulled out her tampon, tossed it on the floor so that blood splatted all over the wall and then just left it on the floor.
Then there was the time that I went back to the bathroom to discover that another woman shot poop against the back of the stall and next to the toilet. And let's not forget the night that I ended up standing in a pool of some freak's pee while I was putting away videos on the new release wall. I almost quit that night. -
ExplorerDS6789 — 18 years ago(February 27, 2008 08:54 PM)
"If you want your house to smell like an undrained port-a-potty, that would be the way to go.
Seriously, just take it out as it happens. It doesn't take much more energy than walking the diaper to the garbage pail."
I see.
"OY! I hate that! And it seems like every time I go to the store, someone has left something gross like a diaper, a used tissue or a used plastic fork or spoon from the sample stations. shudders Sometimes, I wish I had the money to spring for my own shopping cart."
Tell me about it.
"But when it comes to retail grossness, if a couple of dirty diapers are all you've had to deal with, you got off light. While I was working at a certain books, movies and video retailer, I went into the ladies restroom to find that some woman had pulled out her tampon, tossed it on the floor so that blood splatted all over the wall and then just left it on the floor"
Good lord!
"Then there was the time that I went back to the bathroom to discover that another woman shot poop against the back of the stall and next to the toilet."
Jeez Louise! I know where you're coming from, though. Usually when our cleaning lady is out, it's the job of my department to clean the restroomswomen included, and I'm a guy! And let me tell you, the ladies' room is far messier than mens'! I've seen my share of discarded tampons and defacation stains.
"And let's not forget the night that I ended up standing in a pool of some freak's pee while I was putting away videos on the new release wall. I almost quit that night."
Wow. You work at Blockbuster, huh?
I guess a guy, or it could've been a small child, just couldn't hold it. -
valleester — 18 years ago(February 28, 2008 09:12 AM)
"Jeez Louise! I know where you're coming from, though. Usually when our cleaning lady is out, it's the job of my department to clean the restroomswomen included, and I'm a guy! And let me tell you, the ladies' room is far messier than mens'! I've seen my share of discarded tampons and defacation stains"
The retailer that I was working for was pretty chintzy with their hours, and they always scheduled the cleaning lady to come in during the morning shift, so it was my job to make sure that the restrooms were cleaned out every night. And I agree with you about the men's room being cleaner. Don't get me wrong, there were some gross poop-related incidents in the men's room, too. It was just more frequent in the ladies' room. I have no idea why.
"Wow. You work at Blockbuster, huh?
I guess a guy, or it could've been a small child, just couldn't hold it."
No, I didn't work at Blockbuster. I wish! No, I worked at place that sold books, music, videos and various cafe items. And I doubt that it was some poor guy or small child that couldn't hold it. While I was putting away videos, there was a group of teenagers standing behind me, giggling. I couldn't figure out what it was that they were laughing at until I looked down. I couldn't believe what I was looking at, so I asked, "Am I standing in pee?" At which point the teens broke out in an all-out guffaw. That's when I knew. And it probably wouldn't have been as bad had it been anyone else, but I'm rather short and I have a tough time finding pants that aren't so long that they overlap my shoes and touch the ground. So, my pants were drenched in (what I assumed to be,) some strange teenager's pee. -
ExplorerDS6789 — 18 years ago(February 29, 2008 10:14 AM)
"Don't get me wrong, there were some gross poop-related incidents in the men's room, too. It was just more frequent in the ladies' room. I have no idea why."
Neither do I.
"At which point the teens broke out in an all-out guffaw. That's when I knew. And it probably wouldn't have been as bad had it been anyone else, but I'm rather short and I have a tough time finding pants that aren't so long that they overlap my shoes and touch the ground. So, my pants were drenched in (what I assumed to be,) some strange teenager's pee."
Wow. Those teens were probably drunk. Though I can't understand how they weren't cited for public urination. How could they do that in a store and not get caught? -
valleester — 18 years ago(February 29, 2008 12:36 PM)
"Wow. Those teens were probably drunk. Though I can't understand how they weren't cited for public urination. How could they do that in a store and not get caught?"
They did seem as though they were intoxicated by some means, but being an under-paid, over-worked video jockey, I cared a lot less about their motivation for peeing on the new release wall than the fact that I was standing in the pee. Anyway, at the time that it happened, my store hadn't yet put in its video surveillance, as it was near 11:00pm, there weren't really any other customers to speak of in the department at that time and as I was the only one manning my department that night and I was getting videos from the customer service desk on the other side of the store to put back on the new release wall, there were no witnesses and no proof that the teens actually did it. My boss didn't want to raise a commotion with the kids on the off chance that someone else had done it. Yet, at the same time, I was really ticked off. So, my boss sent me home. -
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valleester — 18 years ago(February 29, 2008 08:16 PM)
Extreme differences between Huggies and Pampers. When my son was born, I HATED Huggies because they had a hard cardboard-like plate in the diaper covered with silica gel that used to get attached to his skin and give him a diaper rash. Pampers were my favorite as they were ultra-absorbant and they were treated with aloe, so they actually helped keep diaper rash at bay. But that was nearly 9 years ago. I had a baby girl prematurely about a year ago. Let me tell ya, with her prematurity, I was paranoid about ANYTHING funky being anywhere near her skin. So, you can imagine how displeased I was to find that the hospital was putting her in Huggies diapers. After a few days, we went home and we started buying the Pampers diapers. And I couldn't believe it! They leaked like a sieve! So, after that, I had hubby buying a favorite generic brand. Then, one weekend, we sent the baby to go to the In-laws so that hubby and I could have a date night (you can't imagine how important something like a date night is until you have kids,) and my MIL told my husband and I that we didn't need to send anything with the baby, that she would just buy all new stuff. Well, when my MIL brought the baby back, she also brought with her the Huggies diapers. Anyway, a couple of days went by, and, for some reason, there were no other diapers around but the Huggies. I wasn't happy about it, but I put her in them. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the hard cardboard-like piece was no longer in the diaper, there were far more layers in the diaper so that the silica gel didn't get remotely near her skin, the velcro on the diaper was far superior to the stuff on either Pampers or the generic brand and the Huggies were better contoured to her body than the either the Pampers or the generic brand. In fact, if the Huggies were more affordable, they would be the way that I would go. Unfortunately, even with coupons, they're pretty pricey. So, I buy generic 'sposies.
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ExplorerDS6789 — 18 years ago(March 01, 2008 12:57 AM)
"After a few days, we went home and we started buying the Pampers diapers. And I couldn't believe it! They leaked like a sieve!"
You know, if it hadn't been for that part, your post would've been a great ad for Pampers. I'm serious. Or Luvs or any other brand. -
valleester — 18 years ago(March 01, 2008 01:20 AM)
LOL!!!! I know I probably sound pretty campy. Having kids is so mentally, emotionally and physically exhausting. Naturally, I'm pretty passionate about anything that will make the job even the tiniest bit easier.
