Man said disposable nappies should be banned

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He was a friend of a friend so I bit my lip but I found it quite patronising for a man to be lecturing women on this. He has dcs but I dont think he's changed that many nappies. Easy, then for him to say disposables should be illegal. I tried reusables but it didnt work out for various reasons. I felt guilty about using disposables but they were very liberating. Im no fan of P&G but I think banning them would be a real step back for womens liberation.

I used to bung them in with the normal washing so no dedicated loads to do. It was fine. We didn't smell of poo. We didn't have (don't have) a tumble drier. The world didn't end. And I bought most of the nappies secondhand so it wasn't that expensive.

But anyway, if you don't want to use them you shouldn't be coerced into doing so.

If some men aren't changing their fair share of nappies they should be coerced into doing so.

I think that the people doing vast numbers of loads have lots of children! With just the one it didn't add that much using washables - tbh dd's habit as a baby of sicking all the time on anything and everything (our clothes as well as hers) was much more of an issue.

We had old fashioned terry squares, though, which were easy to wash & dry as they're not as thick as the pre-made sort (definitely no tumble dryer!).

My older 3 were in terries and they got bunged in with the other washing. Ive never owned a tumbke dryer and its not been a problem. But with dd to be in nappies for life im buggered if im adding another chore. Hers are incinerated.

I know this is off-topic, but I just want to share this: there was an article in Yachting Monthly once about a family who sailed round the world with a small baby, and they used reusable nappies and used to wash them by trailing them behind the boat - no effort, no soaking, no smells - easy!

droves - Minki do washable nappies for adults/older children, and will do custom ones if you ring them to talk to them about what you want

We use washables. DP does a share of the changing/washing, though I freely admit I do more of it. However, he chops considerably more of the wood that heats the water to wash them in, and maintains the rainwater collection system that provides the water, so I am happy that it works out fair in our household.

I used both. Reusables at home and when popping out, disposable at night and when going out for longer than 4 hours. DS does 3-4 poos/day and they are disgusting. At home they just go down the loo, but when out and about I don't want to have to lug 3 pooey nappies with me. I chose reausables mainly form the cost savings (all though environmental impact carried some weight) and in a way they are easier cause we don't run out.

Until recently we had no drier either and it wasn't a problem except that we ended up with loads on the aired in the dinning room all the time (cause is hardly ever sunny enough in Nort Yorkshire for them to dry outside).

However, the suggestion that disposables should be banned is ridiculous. and could only come from someone who has no understanding of what life is like at home, responsible for a baby 24/7

SaF.

I have always used disposables, I don't like the fact that I have put so much into landfill and I would probably do it differently if I had my first dc now I'm a SAHM. When I had my first we were both working and had a long commute. When we asked an honest reusable-using friend how much extra work it was she said 'Oh, only about 10 minutes a day' and our reaction was 'What, 10 whole minutes? '

I just have to add that the whole 'have to go out to buy nappies' argument doesn't really stack up either. You just buy them when you are doing a grocery shop anyway.

And I didn't mention that much like cooking from scratch, using reusables is worth it IMO, but if I wasn't a SAHM, we would eat a lot more pre-prepared foods and definitely use dispo's

We use disposables - it's not a feminist issue in this house, though: DH is a SAHD and changes most of the nappies. Before DS was born I thought maybe we should use washables (I worry about eco-stuff more than he does), but left the decision to DH as most of the work would be his. We don't have a car and we don't fly anywhere, so I reckon it probably evens out.

Oh, and we've never run out of nappies - I just stock up every time I get shopping delivered.

we use terries, atm I'm at home on mat leave and DH works FT, I however have only sorted out one bucket of nappies in the past 5m...

just because the man isn't there for the majority of nappy changes doesn't mean he doesn't deal with his share of pooey nappies!

fwiw we've never owned a tumble dryer and managed year round in a flat without any outside space, using terries and wraps bought for DD1 again for DD2, along with a stack of terries my mum had in the loft which were used on me - secong generation terries, you can't get more ecologically sound (or cheap) than that!

My mum didnt saf. I was born in 1968. It was nappies boiling on the stove top and plastic pants.
I do some some hippies who do EC. They have. Alot of wee and poo on them. No way are they coming over here!

I wpuld like to see disposables not made illegal, but highly taxed to make them a luxury not a product which is taken for granted, with incentives for using cloth and council-run nappy laundering schemes.
You can already save hundreds by using cloth - ridiculous to suggest otherwise. I spent no more than £100 on cloth nappies initially (ok that was 11.5 years ago so add inflation), then £30 on new sizes of wraps as dd grew. No new bits bought for ds when he came along. I was given a few more over the years from friends/cousins who had finished with theirs, and am still using a few pre-folds as floorcloths now, having passed most of the kit on to be used by someone else.
You don't need to do special hot washes, you don't need a tumble drier, and if you have a washing machine the effort is minimal. If people want to save water they could do a lot more by being careful with how they use it and changing sheets and towels less often. I can't believe some of the laundry regimes I have read on here!
I also did some form of ec and rarely had a dirty nappy from about 8 months. DD was finished with nappies completely by 2. Society is so brainwashed by big business few people look into alternatives.