Diapers Q&A

Should I be ashamed that I was raised in disposable diapers?????????

We were talking about the enviroment yesterday in biology class and the topic of garbage came up, how much we as humans create, etc. etc. Anyway disposable diapers came up as a item that is very wasteful. Naturally, my teacher laughed and said all of us probably wore disposable diapers since we were born in the early 90's and it was practically unheard for kids to wear cloth after mid seventies were over. Later on after school in Enviroment Club, I consider myself a Teen Greener after all :D, some of the girls mentioned the discussion and then everybody was saying they were all raised in cloth and I admitted my mom used Pampers/Huggies/Whatever and they all were like "you are such a hypocrite ha ha ha." WTF??? I can't control what my mom dressed me in when I was an infant? Loose Wheel - I totally suspected they were too. I was talking to my mom about it this evening and she said that those girls were full of it because it was very very unlikely their stupid butts didn't touch at least a couple of disposables in 1991/1992.

Public Comments

1. Wow. People are getting ridiculous. Cloth diapers are not very sanitary. Feel proud.
2. no. it's not like you could have told your mom to dress you in reusible. besides using reuseible dippears still make the same amount of waste, it may not be in the land fills thought. the total amount of water that the washer using is like 22 thousand gallons of water all together
3. Only if you're still wearing them
4. You had no control over your diapers, you were, after all, a baby...they're just being mean spiteful b*tches, something girls excel at. Ignore them or tell them sorry; if I had known then about the environment I would have driven myself to the store and bought cloth ones...
5. No. It's not like you were given a choice. And I suspect that at least some of them were lying when they said they were raised in cloth diapers. Those that were probably had well off parents that could afford a diaper service (no muss, no fuss!).
6. I raised my daughter in cloth diapers, but it wasn't for the environment. It was for the comfort of my child. The elastic leg bands left deep red marks in her skin and she had far too many rashes because those things held in the dampness against her bottom. Cotton, cloth diapers were more comfortable for her and let the air get to her skin. I changed her often anyway (putting on rubber pants was where the problem really was because holding the moisture in the diaper against the skin will cause diaper rashes). So cloth diapers were better but you had absolutely NO choice over what your mother put you in. Next time these little anal retentive morons start ragging on you for what your mother chose, you tell them to take it up with her. My daughter was born in '86, btw.
7. I thought kids still wore disposable diapers? Oh well, I'm not washing poop in my washing machine. The trees can take one for the team.