More Thoughts on Cloth Diapers, Part 2

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

"Children who wear cloth diapers are generally potty-trained earlier than those who use disposables." No kidding! Their moms want them out of these things ASAP!

I had resigned myself to at least 2 more months of hell~ washing, drying, stuffing cloth diapers. Duke's room smelling like a sewer (this may be exaggerated right now because my sense of smell is CRAZY heightened by the hormones). Squeezing poop water out of the diapers and so on.

When all of a sudden, we have a new problem.

I was spraying one of the poops off in the toilet, with my hand on the back of the diaper, when I realized that my hand was soaking wet. The water had sprayed right through the PUL liner!

So, let's think about that- the diaper is no longer liquid-proof. I noticed it again on the next poop. And then when I woke him up this morning, his jammie pants were all wet in the seat where the urine leaked through.

What did my friends at Cotton Babies say? Surprise! This is also a very uncommon problem, usually caused by heat. Amy (my customer service rep for this issue) wanted to know how I was washing my diapers (see part 1 for that discourse!) to be sure I was doing it correctly. I should be an expert at this point with as many times as I've talked to them!

Amy wants to send a diaper to the lab, to see what has happened to them. So I will be shipping a diaper cover to her today and will wait for the verdict.

Oh, I hope they tell me I can send them all back and get my money (even some of it, just to be free of them). In the meantime, I am thrilled to use disposables, since a diaper that doesn't hold in urine isn't much of a diaper at all.

Maybe I'll be moving up potty training on the schedule...