want to write a letter to The Sun newspaper.

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a woman has written in saying that an NHS job as nappy advisor is waste of money (at 26k a year i'd do it!!). she also says that disposables are mroe hygenic, and that she wouldnt put her her abby in a nappy that has been soiled by another baby, as nhs laudry is pants basically. just want to hit the paper with some facts etc.

Raid the Nappy Lady for info - also the Womens Environmental Network. And send in a cute photo of your dd in totsbots

have raided WEN and also asked for their permission for stuff.

so far have cost (save £500+ in washables), health issues disp madwe of chemicals etc, washables of natural materials mostly.

also have cost of disposing of nappies, bristol city spend £500,000 per yr on disposing of them.

What about telling them that even if you use disposables you are supposed to scrape any poo into the lav, and as people aren;t doing this, loads of new housing developments are being built on top of Poo, as they reuse the landfill sites! That should give the Daily Mail element something to think about!

good point. yukky nappies evrywhere. what about when the bag get ripped open whilst waiting for the bin men, nappies in the street. yukky.

I wonder if she took her own sheets into hospital?!

lol. and own pillows, and floor wipes (actually know people who have taken cleaning stuff in)

What is a nappy adviser?

The environmental aspect is a massive issue. That alone is enough argument.

just trying to get people to move over the cloth i guess. its all part of govt incentive to cut down on waste and promote cloth nappies.

Have you found any of the stuff about the dodgy bleaching agents used in disposables? AFAIK current midwifery policy is to discourage use of baby bubble bath/baby wipes etc etc on newborns, yet people are willing to bung brand new skin into chemical laden paper nappies.

Newborn skin absorbs up to 80% of stuff it comes in contact with - would have to check that percentage, but it's definitely scarily high. Much better to use lovely organic unbleached cotton methinks

but she is admamant tnthat disp are more hydenic? i cant see how they are really?

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dont be sorry. i had to change to cloth as dd2 outgrew standard sizes disposables, and trying to find extra large week in week out was impossible. bear in mind she wasnt even 1yr old at that point. very chunky little girl.

but considered buying a pack of disp the other day as dd2 had dodgey tummy, saw the price and ran away!!

Just thought about this one.

Disposable manufacurers bang on about dryness and absorbant chemical cores blah blah blah. That usually means that parents will attempt to use as few nappies as possible during the day, because they think that the wetness is unhygenic, when actually it is the bacteria in the wee. The bacteria remains on the uncleaned skin and causes rash and infection.

Many parents seem happy to leave their baby in one nappy throughout the whole day, allowing them to carry their portable toilet around their ankles as the nappy gets more and more weighed down. Yuk.

With cloth however, it's obvious when a nappy is wet and so it's changed more often. More hygenic!

Most cloth users know that if you really wanted, you could keep even the heaviest wetting toddler in a boosted Totsbot nappy for hours and hours. But I don't, I change it, cos it's wet and a breeding ground for bacteria.

Disposable nappies get changed far less often than they should - they lull parents into a false sense of security. Disposables are less hygenic than cloth

Hear Hear, Mudda!

Oh I hate disposables. Neither do I have much time for those people who say
"Reusable nappies? Aren't you good."

just saw this thread.
i was once involved in a neighbour dispute where somebody said they saw a rat eating the contents of a disposable nappy (the argument was about whether a woman was throwing nappies out of the window into a basement lightwell, she denied it).
You often see nappies just chucked on the ground, as if they had been thrown out of a car.