Little Lindsey

The Environmental Working Group gives Dreft detergent a rating of F. One ingredient can effect the endocrine and reproductive systems. The fragrance can cause skin irritation. That is just 2 of the ingredients, but many more get a sub-optimal rating. I can't find a rating for the Blissfuls, but I would assume they use the same fragrance. I would be very wary of actually bathing in something made with the Dreft Blissfuls, particularly if you are female as it could cause vaginal irritation or worse. This is why it's now recommended that girls take bubble baths infrequently...the synthetic fragrances used in bubble bath are harmful to the female anatomy and can lead to infections.

Boyshorts or boxer briefs. Occasionally Rearz training pants.

I suppose it must be easy to say what kind of diaper a mother should use when one isn't a mother in the 21st century...and even easier when you're so hung up on one particular type of diaper that you can't possibly imagine why someone might choose something else. Sure, cloth may be the cheaper option in the long run, but requires a significant investment up front. Consider a family - or single mother - living paycheck to paycheck, particularly in the western world where "all lives matter" until those lives are poor. Now consider this. It might be more cost-effective long-term to spend $100 on a pair of Nike's that will last a year or more, but if you've worn out your last pair of sneakers and your budget allows $20 to replace them, you buy the $20 Wal-Mart sneakers that might last two months. At that rate, in a year's time you'll spend $120 on six pairs when you could have spent $100 if you'd had the money to begin with. Similarly, it's cheaper to pay for diapers a package at a time than to shell out for several day's worth of cloth diapering supplies. Then, of course, you have working mothers. It's no secret that it's getting harder for families to live on one income. Additionally, women are often punished in the workplace for taking time off to raise children, so they return to work as soon as possible. Of course a working mom, in most cases, still has to deal with more than her fair share of cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, and assorted child-rearing tasks. Maybe you feel entitled to judge, but I certainly can't blame a mother in this position for choosing the diaper option that doesn't create additional laundry. Additionally, let's not forget mothers with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or post-partum depression. Maybe a disposable diaper is easier for those mothers to put on. Maybe they don't have the energy to deal with the extra laundry. Should we shame them because their best doesn't quite reach your standards? Now let's think about diapers in general. You think the cloth diapers and rubber or plastic pants of your childhood are the best option? What happens to those pants when they're no longer in usable condition? Do they magically disappear, or end up in a landfill with the disposables? The landfill? Okay, well that's no good. Let's go back to the 1800s when babies often wore the same cloth diaper, sans cover, for several days before it was removed and simply hung to dry without washing. No water wasted or harmful cleaning chemicals used! Winning! Or we could go back even further and use animal skins packed with grass, leaves, or moss. All natural! Not even any pollution caused by the production! I Another point I'd like to make us that while cloth diapers advocates like to point out the waste going to landfills with disposables, the bulk of the pollution, be it if the land, air, or water, is created by large corporations. Just like we're told to ditch plastic straws and buy reusable water bottles when in reality plastic waste from the fishing industry contributes the vast majority of the pollution in the oceans, everyone switching to cloth won't do a damn thing if big businesses don't change their practices. Pointing fingers at average people just trying to get by only serves to distract us from the real issues at hand. Furthermore, it would probably be more effective to urge diaper manufacturers to come up with more eco-friendly options. There are already biodegradable diapers - they take 50 years to break down, but that's a lot better than the 500 years conventional diapers take. There are already plant-based disposables, made from sustainable materials, without chlorine, fragrances, and other harmful chemicals - pressure more diaper brands to adopt that. All that to say - nothing is as simp!e as it may appear. Don't judge others for making choices you wouldn't, because you likely have no clue what they're going through.

You're a better little than I am. ?

I'm curious to know what you mean by "...until she gets the idea." Do you simply mean "until she understands I want to wear 24/7," or are you looking for more with regards to her being actively involved in your diaper usage? Either way, I think the best thing to do is be straightforward and tell her you want to wear 24/7, but be prepared to answer questions that may come up such as how your increased usage may affect the household budget, where you plan to store them, and how you plan to dispose of them.

Why can't you just change your pull up, use it, dispose of it carefully, and put the original back on? Does she count how many pull ups you have? As for me, no diaper at the moment but I think after my shower it will be Rearz training pants (star pattern). Maybe I'll even double them up, add my plastic pants, and wet them tonight. Might as well, since tomorrow is laundry day.

So true. A friend moved to Virginia and is always complaining that she can't get pizza and wings. That's the first thing she has to have when she comes back for a visit.

I had to answer that I hoarded diapers for number two, because that was the closest to my situation, though I don't hoard and I didn't buy extra because of covid. I actually had ordered 4 bags of ABUs, one bag of North shore care supreme lites, and some Always Discreet pull ups right before covid hit. I don't wear all the time so that supply has lasted me this whole time. I can probably go another month or two with what I have left of the ABUs but I will probably order more Always Discreet soon. As far as how often I wear, I would say that hasn't changed at all (I only wear at home, Always Discreet if I feel like wearing during the day, and the ABUs/NSCs at night). The only thing that was affected was I was planning on going 24/7 in the ABUs/NSCs at home when my roomie went on vacation (that's the reason I stocked up) but the vacation got cancelled because of covid. Not a huge deal, I can get away with the Always Discreet when the roomie is home so it's not like I can't wear at all.

I would say body type plays a big part in preference but so do individual needs such as being a person who floods vs a person who wets in small spurts or dribbles, or someone who needs a diaper to last all day vs someone who only wishes to wear for a few hours at a time, someone who is highly active vs someone who is mostly sedentary, etc. Different diapers are going to suit different people. Personally, I love ABU DinoRawrz and PeekABU. They fit me better than Bambinos, which are the only other ABDL diapers I have tried so far, and while they certainly have a higher capacity than I need most of the time, it isn't so ridiculously high that I feel like I'm wasting them when I change after a few hours. The supposed 7,000 ml capacity of the Camelots and other diapers is too much for me - and so is the price tag that comes with that kind of capacity.

Back in the spring I had the house to myself and was wearing a decently soggy DinoRawrz. The dog needed to go out, but before we went I decided to pop in a suppository and see if I could hold it until we got back in. We went for a short walk, just a couple blocks, then spent maybe 15-20 minutes wandering around our property which is a decent sized corner lot with a semi-private back yard. I'd had some cramping early in the walk, but ignored it and it went away, only to re-emerge with vengeance while the dog was thoroughly inspecting around the deck, under which rabbits are prone to giving birth. Rather than extract him from his doggy duties I decided to poop right there and pushed out a load so massive and hard I had to pause and adjust my diaper to make room for round two which started off with another firm log and ended with a pile of mush. As my bowel movement came to an end I released a flood, using up whatever dry padding had been left in the diaper. I let the dog finish his inspection of the yard, then waddled inside feeling very much like a toddler who waited too long to go potty and had an accident and yet very satisfied that I used that diaper to its full potential.

Can't say I've ever had that desire. I'm perfectly content to keep my diaper time indoors or, at the very least, put on clothes that hide my diaper if I do feel like hearing out in the yard.

I absolutely adore the DinoRawrz! That said, bulkiness is of little importance to me. For me, the appeal of a diaper is all in the design and the dinos are a perfect older toddler/preschooler look, not too babyish. Plus I loved dinosaurs when I was a kid. I also found that the hook and loop tapes work very well for me. To each their own, though! We are lucky there are so many ABDL and medical diapers available that appeal to many different personal preferences.

PeekABU.

Me! I hate wasting a good PeekABU so I'm trying to hold out for another good wetting or two before I change. Luckily it's a pretty firm poo so it's not squishing around.

About an hour ago. Arrived home to an empty house and a note saying not to expect the roomie til late tonight. As luck would have it, I really needed to go #1 and #2 so I grabbed a PeekABU, diapered up, and let nature take its course. It still has a good bit of capacity left, so I'll try to hang out in it til I have at least one more good wetting. Then I'll take a shower with my Baby Magic calming baby wash, follow up with the matching lotion, and slip into a pair of training pants and my new jammies.

Babies take, on average, about 2.5 ounces of formula per pound of weight every day. (Up until they start solids around 6 months and their nutritional needs change.) So a 7lb newborn (about average size) would require 17.5 ounces, 10lb baby would need 25 ounces, and so on. If 16 ounces causes diarrhea in a fully-grown adult who is many times larger than a newborn there is most likely an allergy or intolerance to something in it. On the other hand, scientifically speaking, correlation does not equal causation. It is fully possible that something totally unrelated (such as a minor GO bug) caused the loose stools, but the person associated it with the amount of formula ingested simply because it was not the normal amount. All that to say there is no evidence to suggest any given amount of formula will give you the same results as another person. Only way to know is to try it yourself.

Nah, he got fired for taking diaper pics and videos at work. He's not childish, he's a straight up pervert and exhibitionist.

Thanks! ? I'm wondering if I should start my own thread in the photo forum instead of hijacking this one all the time.

Hard to make a good recommendation when there are so many options available. I guess it might help to know what you're looking for. Do you want a medical diaper with wetness indicators, an AB style diaper with a allover print or printed landing zone, or maybe something in between like an all white diaper? Big and bulky, slim and discrete, or somewhere in between? Plastic-backed or cloth? One tape per side or two? Sticky tapes or hook-and-loop? Are you strictly DL, or ABDL? How much are you willing to spend per diaper?

Hate doing it lying down. I always get a better fit standing up.

Rearz training pants...with an Always Discreet under it because it's *that time* of the month and I refuse to stain my new trainers two days after getting them.

Maybe my bladder is oversized but I don't see these holding a whole bladder full. Possibly if I wet very slowly, in different positions so the entire padded area could be utilized, it would but I have doubts. But I will certainly test mine to see when I get a chance.

My dryer has a medium heat option, that's what I used.

Someone I know shared that as well. Old enough that they might possibly have worn cloth as a baby, but I know they didn't cloth diapers their own kids.

So, I wore them to bed last night but didn't wet because it was too hot and humid for plastic pants. I was planning on washing both pairs plus my new pull on flannel diaper today anyway so after my morning walk I put both pairs of training pants on and wet them. It was a small, slow wetting as I had gone before my walk and also lost a considerable amount of fluids through sweating (hi, can we get some fall weather please???) but went right through the first pair, with no wicking, to pair number two which were quite wet inside and slightly damp on the outside. Had it been a full wetting I would have been standing in a puddle, no doubt. In other words, they perform exactly how you would expect training pants to so I am neither surprised nor disappointed. I look forward to many hours of "potty training" in the future and will definitely snag a few more pairs of Bigger Diapers stocks them in any other patterns. Update: they just came out of the dryer and I'm amazed how much softer and fluffier they feel after just one washing. Will be interesting to see how the absorbency improves, as it should increase a bit over the first few washes. Can't wait to put them on at bedtime!