G Diapers

[jgazda]

Anyone out there use G diapers? Do you like them? Are they easy to use? More or less expensive?

 

[bumbershoot]

I don't use them, but I used cloth diapers. From people who used cloth happily, gdiapers seem like MUCH MORE of a pain than just using cloth. It's like..all of the nasty part and, well, more of the disgusting part.

With cloth, until baby has big poops that can be plopped in the toilet (and when we got to that stage we just brought out the baby bjorn little potty anyway and encouraged its use), you can just toss the dipe in the pail and then in the washer. The washer will clean it up just fine. If you think of having muddy clothes, and trusting that your washer will clean the mud off of them and the clothes will be clean, that's a good way to understand cloth dipes. Even my child-free brother gets that; actually he came up with the analogy!

With disposables, most people go against what the pampers site says and just put them in the trash. The pampers site says to put solid waste into the toilet, so that it can be whisked off to treatment plants...we should all get the solid waste to treatment plants rather than putting it into landfills to contaminate our ground water!

But most people don't think about that, and therefore think that disposables are very convenient b/c you take them off and put them in the trash, maybe stopping in the diaper sausage first (diaper genie).


With gdiapers, you take the diaper off, and instead of putting it in the wash pail OR the garbage, you then take the inner part out (and remembering how much poop used to get on the covers of cloth dipes, this is not a neat business), take that to the toilet, use your special tool to break up the diaper, and then hope it flushes away.

All of the bad part, none of the good part!

So just use cloth.