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When father or other relative holds the baby?
What about single mothers who don't live near their family?
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Why are diapers so expensive?
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Re: Why are diapers so expensive?
#422>In the United States, the average diaper sells for about 25 cents. Really? I'm currently paying 8 cents a diaper from Aldi.
The word "average" suggests that you buying a much cheaper diaper from a budget retailer is not at all incompatible with this figure.
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how does this not contaminate your washer with feces?
Do you think your washer is somehow not already contaminated with feces, from washing underwear? I read an article a while ago that tested and found substantial fecal residue in typical washing machines, without cloth diapers going through them. Can't find it now among all the cloth diaper related search hits.
Good point.
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#424Earlier quoted context omitted.
We cloth diaper too (3 kids, a two and a half year old potty trained for about a year now, and 5 month old twins). Personally, I find disposable diapers to be way more disgusting than cloth. With cloth, you rinse it out and the majority of the gross stuff is down the drain. With disposables, you end up with a garbage can literally full of poop. Its like having a mini pit toilet in your house. We have also noticed, li…
> With cloth, you rinse it out and the majority of the gross stuff is down the drain. With disposables, you end up with a garbage can literally full of poop. Worth pointing out that just because you use disposables doesn't mean you can't rinse it out / dump into a toilet. We used cloth for 8 months and then transitioned to a daycare that wouldn't let us use them. I still dump all solids into the toilet because I don'…
The thing that grosses me out when I attempt to do that is then the polymer filling stuff gets all wet and nasty. That stuff just weirds me out...
Our twins are currently just breastfed, which means their poop is basically yogurt. So nothing to dump in the toilet yet. I remember we would dump the harder poops out before we threw the diapers away if we were out of town and using disposables.
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#425I have 4 kids, the youngest being 18, and like many people said, 12 a day is way too high, except for a newborn.
Disposable diapers are indeed expensive, but I've heard that the environmental effects of cloth diapers are comparable. Fortunately, it's a problem that is long, long behind me.
One thing I do remember is that nothing makes a baby more willing to take a big dump or even a pee than putting on a fresh, clean diaper.
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many people have a laundry room (or area) with washer, dryer, and utility sink. For example, see http://www.mlexecutiverealty.com/_account/images/listing/122... . Taking care of a baby requires specific education. You should not expect to know everything about the topic if you have not researched it. It is rude to express your confusion this way. As written it implies that the author did not express things well, when…
I don’t agree, it was terse but didn’t intend it to be rude, and there is some responsibility to use clear wording without obscure terms or jargon. Raised a child and never heard any of those terms before. Reminds me of many tech articles here where obscure acronyms are never explained. Also putting feces down the sink doesn’t sound like a great idea, though maybe it’s fine. No explanation given either way.
The sink and the toilet connect to a drain pipe within probably 5 feet, so its really not as gross as people tend to think. Also, no matter what you are going to get poop on your hands and wash that off in the sink, so poop is going down the sink either way.
Obviously when the baby is old enough to have well-formed poops, you dump that in the toilet. Otherwise we just rinse them in the sink, put them in a 5 gallon pail, and then wash them in the washing machine every day or two. (More often because of twins)
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
DI water? De-Ionized? The stuff marked "Not safe for human consumption: Lab Use Only" because of how dirty the ion exchange membranes get [among other things]? Or were you trying to say 'distilled water'?
Outside the US, distilled water is often called deionized water. Same thing, different name.
It is not the same thing. Deionized water may contain neutral organic molecules, including viruses and bacteria, as it uses ion exchange resins pre-loaded with protons and hydroxides to remove all other anions and cations. Distilled water has been vaporized out of one container and recondensed into another, so contains nothing but water and molecules that form azeotropes with water.
Distilled water is deionized, but deionized has not necessarily been distilled.
In practice, however, both are overkill for baby formula.
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#428Earlier quoted context omitted.
"cloth diapers are for people with single kids" Maybe not for twins , but "one kid at-a-time" is more than doable and the second kid is where the real money savings come in.
Yeah, I meant that by single (English is my second language). And of course cloth diapers are probably a good idea for twins too, but I just couldn't handle it. There comes a point where you'll give almost anything to get five minutes of free time every now and then.
Sister had twins - I totally get it. Their house was crazy for the first couple years. You do what works ;)
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#429Earlier quoted context omitted.
Birth control fails. Approximately 8% of women still end up pregnant during their first year on birth control, and even after the first year the percentage doesn't fall to 0. There are many reasons that it fails, although missing a dose is the largest reason. Other reasons can be improper storage, using certain drugs (prescription or otherwise), or even consuming an unusual amount of some foods or supplements. Even i…
Well, there is one form of birth control that's both free and 100% effective.
AD&D sourcebooks, 2nd edition, salvaged from the trash?
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#430Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s funny. I have been using the same Gillette Sensor for 20 years. Off brand blades were available locally in the USA, but those dried up. Via eBay, I ordered Gillette branded blades “made in Germany” for a fraction of the cost of local Gillette blades. I figured the EU was not ripped off as bad as the USA for razor blades. Maybe that is not the case? That razor recently broke, so it’s off to eBay again to find a…
You're probably buying fakes, IIRC a study found the majority of name brand razor blades on eBay are counterfeit. Amazon has a counterfeit razor blade problem too, but I don't know the prevalence.
Probably, but if his face can't tell the difference, it's not a problem for him.