SOOO over the cloth hate!

[Fleur]

You are an amazing woman, to have to fight everyday to live the life that you chose, good on you for standing up for what you believe in and not lowering your standards .

Well said

I'm just coming in to throw in a bit of support I WISH I could use cloth but I am ashamed to say I can't keep up with our washing now - another load a day would kill me

Every now & again I think about it & then I walk into the laundry :O

But I actually feel guilty for using sposies.

So, I think you're awesome for being committed to living your values just tell them all to go blow eggs.

[~Hestia~]

Thanks for starting this thread! This is something that has been playing on my mind for ages - nice to read all the responses & feel not so alone! NO ONE I know IRL uses cloth.

It's getting to the point for me as a MCN user, I dread changing DS out, especially MG. I just know how the conversation is going to go & I'm tired of defending myself! I don't question any sposie user, but for reason everyone has to question me & my choice. I also find people will give me their excuses for not using cloth - as if I care! Or as a PP mentioned, being told that I'm good for using cloth. I'm not good, I'm just doing what I do just like any other parent out there.
Ah and the poo question! I always say "Well it's not different to using a sposie as you have to remove the poo before throwing it in the bin, don't you?" LOL

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest!

Oh and we used sposies while on a recent interstate holiday. We couldn't WAIT to get back home & get DS back into his cloth! The sposies smelled very chemically & we were so unco at putting them on him LOL!

[surprised]

Personally, I find doing an extra load easier than getting out to the bins every day! We can be a bit lazy with garbage! LOL

We used disposables at the very beginning, and got a few more when I was admitted to hospital for a couple of nights a month ago. You know what? DH now refuses to use anything but cloth, because when we use disposables we get heaps of leaks, while the MCNs contain even the biggest no 3s!

So have your cake and eat it too!

[Junglemum]

Just smile and nod, like a previous poster said, i think it has more to do with how people feel about their own choices rather than condemning yours. Who cares what they think, you know you are doing what is best for your baby and the environment.
you'll find the comments diminish as you become a cloth pro.

[Indadhanu]

Um... more work? You have to change their nappy anyway, MCN are just like disposables, chuck it on, do up the velcro or snaps, you're done.
Yes they need washing but... it's not like you HAND wash them. That's what a washing machine is for? Then just hang them up and let the sun do the rest?

I'd like to know what people think we do with cloth nappies to make them more work? Hand wash and then drape them over our arms outside and spin in circles until they're dry?

The only extra step is disposing of the poo. But it doesn't take more than a minute or two to chuck it in the toilet...

Ignore everyone. We got the same crap, but obviously we and heaps of other people use cloth for two years plus so it's not impossible. And it's so much cheaper!!!!!! We never finished the boxes of nappies that were given to us (for when we realised cloth was too hard ), just had no need to. Even when we thought 'oh maybe we should just use them up since we have them' we never could bring ourselves to do it hahahaha. Especially in the early days, the massive poospolsions that went up the back and out the legs only came out of disposables. Funnily enough our cloth caught it all! And cloth is way cuter! Plus disposables have a funny smell I reckon.

We did find though, that most people thought we were talking about flat nappies. When we told them about MCN and especially AIOs with the cover sewn in and you put it on like a disposable, most people were pretty impressed! Even my SIL who was our biggest critic while I was pregnant now uses the cloth instead of disposables (that we sent just for her) when Jazz stays at her place. If Jazz stays overnight she even has them washed and drying for us when we go to pick her up!

[STARRYSKY]

I can so understand where you are coming from! as a PP said whenever I am at mums/ DS has gastro / DS is sick/ We go away anywhere, my mother is always offering to buy disposables, she has a whinge if she goes to change him as she finds it "too hard", mind you she also brags to anyone who will listen about how "my daughter uses the funkiest nappies, youve never seen anything like it!" she drives me mental sometimes!!!

also a little while back I copied and pasted an article someone had posted on FB about why people use cloth, in my case DS reacts badly to most sposies, I added at the top, "for anyone who is interested or questions my choice, THIS is why I use cloth" I had a very narky comment left underneath from a girl at MG (who uses sposies, but who cares, right?) about how its every mothers choice, her baby was bottle fed and in sposies since birth, and he is the happiest baby on earth, So from that, I guess she felt that somehow by my "choice" I was attcking hers? I dont get it but obviously alot of people feel this way?

[Nai]

I'd like to know what people think we do with cloth nappies to make them more work? Hand wash and then drape them over our arms outside and spin in circles until they're dry?

The only extra step is disposing of the poo. But it doesn't take more than a minute or two to chuck it in the toilet...

LOL - yeah and our toilet is between the bedroom and the laundry so I just have to stop on the way to the nappy bucket (which incidentally is MUCH closer to the bedroom than the outside bin which is where I would have to walk to to dispose of the sposie!)

[briggsy's girl]

when i was talking cloth before DD was born, my mum said that if she looked after DD, i'd have to get sposies for her - i replied with something along the lines of DD not going to visit without me there until she was toilet trained! mum then said she'd buy sposies herself. i told her there was no need, and if i got wind of her putting sposies on DD when there were perfectly good MCN's there, again, i'd not leave her there.

fast forward 13 months - DD now goes to mum's between 1 and 3 days a week while i work. before i started back at work when DD was 10 months, mum asked me how to wash the nappies so she could have them all washed at the end of the day for us, and did i want her to have a stash at her place!! given we have plenty, i said not to worry about it, we supply nappies for her (that match her clothes for the day lol), and all we ask is that she gets rid of solids and puts them in the wet bag. Mum has taken to cloth nappies like a duck to water. she loves them, loves showing them off. she has her faves (as we all do). she will happily change DD anywhere and talk to anyone who asks about our choice to use cloth and how convenient it all is.

let it all go hun - your choices are your choices hun!

oh, and like Nai - our bucket is in the laundry right beside our loo so we just throw the nappies in, and chuck a load of nappies on each night before bed, hang them out in the morning, and all is good. we have a fair sized stash because it CAN take a few days to dry here as it is quite cool and we dry inside during winter (yay for space) - during summer they're dry by midday!

[*TripleJ*]

big hugs to u xoxoxox

ive had nothing but support for using cloth so i find myself lucky in that way and it has saved me so much money coz in the beginning i was spending $15 a week on sposies and also coz DS was on formula which was $20 a week too it just got way too expensive to not use cloth and i love it and im already planning on using cloth from day dot for this bubba and the hospital im having them in use cloth anyway i have had a few ppl ask questions but no one tell me its too hard or silly

[~Phoenix~]

Good on you for sticking up for what you believe in. I don't understand where people think they get the right to be so judgemental on other peoples lives, I'm sure they would be first to get the ****s up if it was done to them.

We got the comments too but suprisingly both our mums are really supportive of us using cloth and my mum has contributed to my stash..........probably coz DH & I back when were born terry flats were they only option they had and everyone used cloth - god that makes us sound so old lol

I had someone commented at my babyshower when I got a nappy bucket & two MCN's "yeh I see that lasting, I give you two weeks"..........3 months later here we are and I love using them, it's really not that much extra work doing an extra load of washing every couple days and I like hanging out my nappies on the clothesline and then sitting and stuffing/folding them. Just gotta convince DH I "really" need some more

[meow]

Especially in the early days, the massive poospolsions that went up the back and out the legs only came out of disposables. Funnily enough our cloth caught it all!

This is the thing that always surprised me. Everyone in MG would be talking about the poosplosions and I'd never had one... but these were people who didn't want to use cloth as they hate dealing with poo? I'd rather just change a poo nappy than be wiping it all up all over your child then washing all their clothes. Funnily enough we seemed to get by with a lot less clothes than they did too so the "extra" load of washing I was doing on nappies, they were doing on clothes anyway.

[Arimeh]

Meh stuff em. Usually the people with those opinions have never actually used cloth themselves, so what would they know in the first place?

I don't use cloth at night (was making the girls rash up too much unfortunately so we need the break from MCN's) but I do miss putting DS in cloth....even though I have the two girls in cloth.. LOL

[ss_storm]

very true re: poosplosions! We've only ever had one escape, and that was with an Aldi nappy while we were travelling..it was gross! With cloth they might have come close to going out the top, but it never has. Well, except for one time when I didn't realise her singlet was tucked into her nappy, not just her pants!

[luna moth]

With the cloth, oh when everyone else is complaing about having to pay for disposibles youw ill be laughing all the way to the bank on top of all the other bonuses of using cloth

Well, that's a funny thing to hear from the world's BIGGEST ENABLER! I'm surprised you didn't finish that with "Maybe you should go shopping and add to your stash. That'll make you feel better..."

Great comments on the poosplosions. That's awesome to hear, I had just expected it would be no different. And, honestly, I don't care about handling poo anyway. I've been doing it for 10 years on people that aren't even related to me, so whatevs!

And, yes, to everyone who said that hearing others' justifications for their choices, THAT is what is exhausting me. Because I live in this small margin of the population on soooo many issues, and I hear it all the damn time. And I'm pretty ready to say "You know what? I don't care! I'm awesome, I'm happy with that, you go do your thing, OK?"

Yeah. YEAH!

[sconeonamission]

Everyone has their own opinion on how and what for their baby. IMO whatever works for you - Go for it! I was so disappointed when ds toilet trained and night trained... I loved doing the washing and seeing all the nappies on the line. Was no extra hassle at all! The other mothers at MG loved the look of the mcn, but admitted they didn't want to use them. Each to their own! xx

[onthefly]

Soooo true about poosplosions. The only time we had poo leakage was with disposables.

[Mrs Jak]

Afraid to say this but....

Isn't that just their experience (or inexperience) with cloth and not them just saying it to make you feel bad? If anything you will be the one to possibly change their point of view when you tell them how much you love it.

I'm all for cloth and have quite a stash, but for me, I have found it easier to use disposable for 95% of the time.

[~Raven~]

Just smile and nod, like a previous poster said, i think it has more to do with how people feel about their own choices rather than condemning yours. Who cares what they think, you know you are doing what is best for your baby and the environment.
you'll find the comments diminish as you become a cloth pro.

Yep and almost 4 years later nobody cares. Even when I have a gorgeous aurial on Ruby I can't get any comments Not even any bagging cloth!

Good on you for trying cloth and I'm sure you'll do very well with it and prove them all wrong!