Too Posh To Wash?

[ferlew]

If mum's are worried about having to choose between heating and nappies...why on earth do they think they MUST buy disposable nappies? Not only problematic to dispose of - but so expensive too. Isn;t it time terry nappies were in regular use again?

[ferlew]

oopps, link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63072980

[jno]

the good old days when Mums didn't have outside jobs and could devote their days to recycling nappies. My mum did that. I did not.

[Paigntonian]

Take it you're a bloke.

[Cloverjo]

I couldn’t afford disposables when my son was a baby (only 30 years ago), so I used terries. They weren’t that much hassle. Use a nappy liner to catch solids, soak nappies in a bucket of cleaning solution. Put in the washing machine and then hang out to dry.

[MissTerious]

If I had a baby now they would be in Terry nappies. Very little bother and economical. Disposable nappies should be banned!

[pastafreak]

With reusable nappies, there's the cost of running the washing machine x number times per week. I've no idea what disposables cost now.

Some might also argue why isn't she breastfeeding? Then she'd not have to buy and heat formula.

I'm not sure choices are necessarily cut and dried.

[pastafreak]

I think everyone I knew who had babies at the same time as me used disposable nappies. But that's spoiled Americans for you!
This was 37 years ago.

[MissTerious]

It took no time at all, as clover says. About 3 nappy washes a week. As for disposable training pants that's dreadful. People now leave kids in nappies far too long age wise.

[pimplyteen]

Not sure what's best for baby. Nappies washed in strong detergents of today, plus pre- soaking?
Has nappy rash been reduced / thing of the past since disposable ones?

[barry1010]

Wear and tear on washing machine, more detergents and chemicals, water use, cost of running washer, drying nappies indoors on wet days causing condensation and possibly mould or tumble drying....

[zebo]

There has to be a correlations between the growth of disposable nappies/reduction in terry nappies and the eye-watering age when children are still not in pants. There was nothing like a soggy terry nappy to encourage a child to use the toilet, at the moment there are children with no health issues starting school in nappies because their parents think they're 'not ready'. Who deals with nappies at school?

[andres]

No disposables or washing machine when I had my first . The terry nappies got a good soaking and then hand washed and if fine pegged out to dry.

[MissTerious]

Better than discarding them for landfill or worse still throwing them out into parks, laybys and countryside in our part of the world. (Or the shingle in front of our front gates.

[pimplyteen]

Yes barry nappies are very heavy when wet so you would need a washer to take the weight. Plus many women work full time, so I doubt if the nursery would be happy changing such and storing the dirty ones until mom arrives to pick up. pooooooooo

[douglas9401]

Aye, there's a lot to be said for letting the wee ones run around unclad and using a dogshit bag to clean up after them instead.

There seems to be absolutely no facet of modern life that doesn't bring near end-of-days thoughts on Answerbank recently.

[MissTerious]

You are absolutely right Zebo. Actually I'm all for potty training. It's not hard to do.

[bednobs]

Having had a child in nappies (probably a shorter time ago than a lot of the answerers), the too pish to wash moniker seems out of place. The mums that used reusable nappies were the posh ones usually (the ones that were more educated, had the money to be staying at home etc) so it would be "not posh enough to wash!"

[MissTerious]

We didn't have nurseries back in the prehistoric days. Never would I send a baby to a nursery. I won't bore you with explaining the many reasons why.

[pimplyteen]

Neither did I miss T, but let's be fair depending of how far we are looking back, the wife didn't work in most cases it was all to do with bringing the baby up along with the potty training.

[Hopkirk]

We had two children many years ago. There is no way we would have done anything other than disposables. Children don't do turds that are as easy to pick up as dogs.