DISPOSABLE NAPPY APPRECIATION THREAD - Sod the landfill! Come here to sing their praises!

[BoffinMum]

There are some of us who think reusable nappies are an eco-conspiracy con designed to get mothers firmly back at the kitchen sink feeling guilty.

There are others of us who have stopped using reusables because our children developed dread diseases of the bottom area.

Some of us even gag at the thought of dealing with all the poo manually, instead of just cursorarily flinging a bit down the loo and then bunging the whole affair in a nice scented nappy sack.

Come join with us if you too are heartily grateful for disposable nappies and the liberation they bring.

I know that disposables aren't eco friendly but having a baby isn't eco friendly full stop really if you think about population explosions etc. I also like a nappy rash free bum. I think I remember sitting in uncomfortable wet terry towelling as a todler and it wasn't nice.
I think reusables are very noble though and I may try them when dd is a little bit older but as a new born with a poo every hour, I think that they would have driven me nuts. My own mum got very depressed trying to deal with nappies and a twin tub apparently. Well done to all those who cope though.

i would like to add that i love disposables and i believe they have given me more time to hug and be with dd and less time faffing with a washing machine. i am horrified by the amount of nappies that go out but i don't own a car and i recycle in other ways. i was also veggie and a committed environmentalist in the past but gave up as i realised that life was too short and that humans by their very nature produce waste unfortunately.

I use a tommee tippee nappy disposal system which is fab and keeps smells at bay. the whole lot can then be chucked out. does add plastic to the mix thrown out tho.

Not read the whole thread but I am sceptical about the actual ecological benefits of terry nappies verus disposable. All that washing uses a lot of water, chemicals and electrical energy. All that creates CO2 and other pollutants.

I would prefer to see all landfil waste composted and the methane collected for burning in a power plant to produce electricty and waste heat. If that is not possible, incineration to produce electricty and waste heat.

We used disposable nappies all the time on DS1 and DS2 and the never suffered nappy rash once.

Tery nappies do seem to be a step back in time for women and surely increases their work load at a very difficult time.

LOL at carbon footprint of burning in hell x 2

I'll use that one on my 'Green' friends when they get on their high horses about CO2 emissions.

I agree ABeta dad. A more effective way of disposal would be great and for me having a newborn was such a shock and a slog that for me disposables were a god send. And no nappy rash!

it is no work at all to fill a washer twice a week! not like i am scrubbing with a dolly! Its 2009- nappy technology is much better.
Personallyy dd had lots of rash in disposables and none in reusables- but like i say each to their own.

I used disposables with dd1- and had so may leaks too!!

that was 2 extra loads i didn't need. i am very lazy i'm afraid!

and with no dryer wud have been a real faff in the winter. i'm not ruling out reusables for future tho.