210 Baby Gifts
Get knocked up and you’ll receive A LOT of baby gifts, very few of which have any practical application. 50% of it will be clothes that someone thought was funny or cute, the other 50% is baby clothes that their babies grew out of.
Does the concept of cloth diapers gross anyone else out? Friends of ours installed a little hose on their toilet to rinse them out before washing them WITH THEIR OWN LAUNDRY.
Now that our baby is 5 months old, I think my wife and I are both glad they my objections won out. Babies poop ALL THE TIME. To be fair, it’s pretty much their only job.
Speaking of babies: here’s a new interview where Demon Archives creator and I talk about science, parenting, and making comics!
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WYLONA
Thanks for coming with me!
KATE
I'm just sorry I got so worked up before.
WYLONA
That's okay, it was your mommy instincts.
KATE
You don't have to get me anything!
WYLONA
I wanted to thank you with these organic cloth diapers for the baby!
(Later)
ROB
So it's like a handkerchief, for poop?
Thanks for coming with me!
KATE
I'm just sorry I got so worked up before.
WYLONA
That's okay, it was your mommy instincts.
KATE
You don't have to get me anything!
WYLONA
I wanted to thank you with these organic cloth diapers for the baby!
(Later)
ROB
So it's like a handkerchief, for poop?
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I read that disposable nappies take up to 150 years to break down in landfill, due to their antibacterial properties. I find the idea of nappies sticking around for that long to be a bit more gross. 😛
Touche!
When my first daughter was born we were so grateful to all the people who donated us baby clothes. However, we realised after about a year why, as our progeny started to consume the equivalent of a small mountain of clothes which she outgrew quicker than Usain Bolt covered 100m.
We eventually realised they weren’t doing us a favour, but we were doing actually them a favour by helping them clear out their baby wardrobes.
Anyone want any used nappies? Only one previous owner, only used on one side. Still some life in them, although it may not be of this earth as I seem to remember there was something distinctly alien in most of them until I finally gave up inspecting them after the novelty wore off.
I feel like there are a couple strips missing from this storyline. Like what happened that they had to go to the Dr? Why isn’t Kate sticking by her guns on the whole vaccination thing? I want more details!
I’m saving it for the book! I thought that sequence had gone long, I cut another strip from it too. Backstory: Wylona had an abnormal pap smear, and couldn’t understand why she might have cancer. The punchline was “WHY DIDN’T ANYONE SAY THERE WAS A VACCINE FOR CANCER?”
How did cavemen dispose of their infant’s poop?
What do you think they made cave paintings with? I have heard of prisoners making tattoo ink from soot and urine.
Soot and urine? Are you taking the p**s?
To be fair, most people who stick with cloth diapers have a lot of them and usually figure on one load of laundry a day just to keep up with them. Especially if they have other things to wash them with.
The thing that tickled me was your cringing at washing the diapers with their own laundry … c’mon, man, it’s not like water has “fecal memory”. 😛 When you think about it, that baby poop is probably one of the lesser toxic substances that could be in the water with those clothes, it’s all a matter of did you use a good soap, and does your washing machine provide a proper rinse cycle? And do you overload your machine, preventing it from giving a good wash to begin with …
The cloth diaper thing is disgusting, but it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than constantly buying disposable diapers.
We’ve got a 15 month old, using modern cloth nappies (fitted cloth diapers, not the first ones) the poop isn’t so bad, and we use flushable liners, the majority of the solids get caught by that.
BTW if you think your 5 month old poop is bad, just wait till they are on solids, ie not baby food. That’s when it gets really gross.
A few years ago I saw a environmental comparison of cloth vs disposable diapers. The conclusion was it’s pretty much a draw. Disposables fill up landfills. Cloth uses a LOT of water, which is purified before use and purified after, plus the energy to heat that water (diapers are always washed in hot water, never cold). However, if you live in an area where water is scarce (Southwest US, looking at you), the conclusion was the edge goes to disposables.
We wash in cold, dry outside on the line, low energy, low water. We’re in Western Australia so when in winter we get enough sun for the job. Solids are caught in a flushable liner. It’s really not bad at all. We also dry pail, so no soaking (no it doesn’t smell). We go through 6 to 8 a day, we used to each them separately, but got over that in time. Is significantly cheaper and lower environmental impact, or at least I’ll trust my wife on that one, she’s an ecologist and did her research.