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Were you cloth diapered?

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#1 ·
I was my dad was a single parent and he cloth diapered me while at home but used sposies when out and about. he did use a service but I think it is pretty awesome that he cloth diapered me being a Dad.
 
#2 ·
Yep both me and my brother were cloth diapered! We had Dydee diaper service too.Then once that got to be too expensive they just bought prefolds and pins and used rubber pants on me.My mom actually suggested I do what she did on my son since I told her how much each diaper is that I bought.I was like ummmm mom I am NOT putting my son in rubber pants! :LOL Those things left marks on my thighs and they itched on the elastic too. I am glad things have changed!
 
#3 ·
That is awsome that your dad CDed you!

I was CDed also - just CPFs w/ pins and plastic pants - though lots of my little dress outifts had matching bottoms that were plastic inside so they were the cover. I actually have a couple still that my mom saved that I can use for baby girl!

DH was CDed too - as were his 3 older siblings. They were all born at home too - except him, being the last. But for the 60s and 70s in the Dominican Repbulic (he is Dominican) that was the norm. His mom used flats and pins - not sure on the covers but he remembers the flats.

Actually, my mom lived in Santa Cruz, CA when I was born and CDing and other AP stuff was all the norm there in the late 70s too - so nothing too alternative.

My mom thinks our diapers are so cool - so much better than what she had. Actually, she buys a lot of diapering stuff for us because she likes it
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#5 ·
yep! all 3 of us were - with flats, prefolds, and plastic pants and wet pails! my dad said he'd be so proud of me if i cd'd - he thought carrying the wetpail to the laundry and dunking the poopy diapers was the worst! when i told him i don't have to do either of those things he was pretty surprised! my mom thinks fitteds, aios, and snappis are 'weird' :LOL
 
#11 ·
I was practically raised by my grandparents who used sposies on me and still think I'm crazy for CD'ing my daughter however they are quite amazed at the resale value of my used diapers.
CD'ing was something I really discovered while pregnant and trying to have a holistic pregnancy. We've CD'd since day one and my partner who's a body piercer actually try's to recruit people when he finds out they're expecting. :LOL Our daughter is his fourth child and he was reluctant at first but by the time she arrived he was trying to bring the cloth to the hospital (where we ended up unexpectedly)
 
#13 ·
Yes...pf rubber pants. I am super fertile too. Hmmmm....
 
#15 ·
Toatally hyjacking this post, but Meisubaby, I love the name Aleksei. We were going to name our first son that after one of the Hockey players on the Penguins team. We decided on Jacek instead.
Now back to the post.
Yup, all my brothers and sisters and I were cloth diapered in prefolds and rubber pants. I used the prefolds years later as rags to dust with.
 
#17 ·
I just found out a few months ago that I was. I knew my little sister was in cloth, she has super sensitive skin and would get a horrible rash in sposies. When my parents came to visit over Christmas, my mom and I were talking about dd's diapers and she told me she had one pack of sposies someone bought her for her shower and she'd save them for special occasions (can't figure out what special occasion warrants a sposie). She thought they were cute (sposies) because they were contoured and had "elastic". My parents had me very young and couldn't afford sposies so they were a novelty. My mom was in shock the first time she saw our fluff. She made me promise to make her OV diapers when she needs them :LOL
 
#20 ·
I was cd'd - prefolds, pins and rubber pants and so were my older brothers. My Mom has pics of the pf's drying on the line somewhere. My lovey was a pf!!! Mom never had to worry about me losing it, there was always another clean one to replace it LOL!!! My Mom loves to change Brian as long as she gets to pick out the diaper -she loves all the fun things I have for him
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#22 ·
I was way back in the day before they had disposable diapers. I remember watching my mom dunk my sister's diapers in the toilet when I was about 4 and thought how disgusting, I'm never doing that.

So here I am some 30 years later doing just that, albeit on a limited scale. But since I'm b/f I have yet to actually dunk a diaper! :LOL
 
#23 ·
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I was a sposie baby. A formula baby, too, and an early solids (6 weeks!) baby, and my mom was a playpen devotee. Oh, and I had a walker too.

My mom wasn't a CIO mama, though, and we did occasionally co-sleep, only once we were past the newborn stage-- she had it in her head that co-sleeping with a tiny baby wasn't safe, so she had a bassinet next to the bed.

So it could have been worse! :LOL
 
#24 ·
I was. My mom washed her own, in an avacado green Kenmore washer. It survived 4 kids in the 70's, and then was passed down to me and my dh, who used it till we could buy our own.

I'm still sad I got rid of that set, I think it would be cool to wash my dd's cd's in the same machine as my mom used.........unless of course I get a cool front loader. :LOL
 
#26 ·
I wasn't but my little brother was. He had severe reactions to sposies and it turns out he ended up and still has severe asthma.

My little sister wasn't either and she's pregnant with her 1st and will be nutting but cloth for her baby. She's practiclly diapering for free. I have all my newborns dipes ready and waiting for her arrival. My dd will be exactly one year older than her arrival and I'm just handing her dipes my dd grows out of.

My parents are totally cool about me cloth diapering and my mom helpss me make the diapers. She has converted some ladies herself over to cloth.