Cant you guys compromise?

[Brown Lioness]

Ugh! This fell out of a friend of my husband's mouth the other day when he told her we would be doing cloth diapers for any future kids.

What happened was he was taking a quick phone pic of himself in the car (he recently cut off his locks and was showing his friend his new hair) and it just so happened there was an empty Huggies box in the back of our car that was in the pic (the box came from an ebay order my husband made and instead of the seller using a regular box, he just packed it in a huggies box they had, lol).

Since we are currently childless and folks have been bugging us to have kids (our 5th year anny is coming up and they know about our "5 year plan" to wait to have kids), she IMMEDIATELY assumed we werent telling her something as no childless couple has a random Huggies box in their car.

So yea, after hubby told her that 1) the Huggies box does not mean we are pregnant and 2) We dont even PLAN on using disposable diapers (ive schooled him well lol), she immediately said"

"OMG, cant ya'll compromise on that?!"

Like we just insulted HER or some mess! Lady look, we arent EVEN pregnant and now you tryna insert your lil ignorance on us? Please know we have BEEN thought and talked cloth diapers out and no amount of gaffawing and OMGing from you is gonna make us "compromise" because there IS no compromise to be had! And besides, im not FORCING my husband to do ANYTHING, we already agreed that cloth would work for us, hell HE was cloth diapered as a baby!

Then she tried to throw in the lil "But your water bill is gonna be high." BS. Whatever. We're not tryna put disposables on our children, period.

/rant

[Ola_]

Don't you love it when other people try to have input into YOUR decisions?

[Juliacat]

A lot of people--a LOT of people--will judge you and try to make you feel guilty if you do things even one iota differently from how they did them. Jumping into parenting is like jumping into this alternate universe where every single thing you do or don't do attracts judgment, ridicule, derision, and scorn. If you're going to have kids, you'll be dealing with this...pretty much constantly. And it is true that you never know what you're going to do until you actually do it. But don't let that stop you from doing what you think is right. : Dd has worn exactly 2 disposables, the first diaper in the hospital because we forgot to bring our cloth, and a pull-up after she potty trained when she had diarrhea at daycare and ran out of spare underpants. If we can do it, so can you!

[Michigan Mama]

i love my cd's but it is totally foreign to some people. They just don't get it. Hopefully we can get more babies in cloth and convince people it's not weird. It's fantastic! Cheap, healthy, responsible, cute...what more can you ask for?

[1littlebit]

remember you don't do things differently from some people b/c everyone is different and does what is right for them. you do it for the sole purpose of making everyone who does things differently feel inferior. incase you were wondering

[dogretro]

You will get a TON of comments about cloth diapers, get used to it, lol! Many are positive, though, so that part is nice. Usually it is from older people who cannot believe how much nicer and cuter cloth has become since they used it.

Wait until you have two in cloth.. People will talk to you like you are some kind of insane hero. Yes, I am super awesome, but not just b/c of what is on my kids' butts! And I only do a little more laundry than the average bear

[UhOhWhatNow]

We use a service. We don't do ANY laundry, and the weekly service picks up twice per week and cost the same as a large package of disposables. WOOHOO!

I can't see why anyone would judge you, that's silliness! Especially about a picture of a box! Geez.