If mum's are worried about having to choose between heating and nappies...why on earth do they think they MUST buy disposable nappies? Not only problematic to dispose of - but so expensive too. Isn;t it time terry nappies were in regular use again?
I couldn’t afford disposables when my son was a baby (only 30 years ago), so I used terries. They weren’t that much hassle. Use a nappy liner to catch solids, soak nappies in a bucket of cleaning solution. Put in the washing machine and then hang out to dry.
It took no time at all, as clover says. About 3 nappy washes a week. As for disposable training pants that's dreadful. People now leave kids in nappies far too long age wise.
Not sure what's best for baby. Nappies washed in strong detergents of today, plus pre- soaking?
Has nappy rash been reduced / thing of the past since disposable ones?
Wear and tear on washing machine, more detergents and chemicals, water use, cost of running washer, drying nappies indoors on wet days causing condensation and possibly mould or tumble drying....
There has to be a correlations between the growth of disposable nappies/reduction in terry nappies and the eye-watering age when children are still not in pants. There was nothing like a soggy terry nappy to encourage a child to use the toilet, at the moment there are children with no health issues starting school in nappies because their parents think they're 'not ready'. Who deals with nappies at school?
Better than discarding them for landfill or worse still throwing them out into parks, laybys and countryside in our part of the world. (Or the shingle in front of our front gates.
Yes barry nappies are very heavy when wet so you would need a washer to take the weight. Plus many women work full time, so I doubt if the nursery would be happy changing such and storing the dirty ones until mom arrives to pick up. pooooooooo
Having had a child in nappies (probably a shorter time ago than a lot of the answerers), the too pish to wash moniker seems out of place. The mums that used reusable nappies were the posh ones usually (the ones that were more educated, had the money to be staying at home etc) so it would be "not posh enough to wash!"
Neither did I miss T, but let's be fair depending of how far we are looking back, the wife didn't work in most cases it was all to do with bringing the baby up along with the potty training.
We had two children many years ago. There is no way we would have done anything other than disposables. Children don't do turds that are as easy to pick up as dogs.