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From: snell@utzoo.UUCP (Richard Snell)
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Subject: Re: Diaper service vs disposals. Which is better?
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 15:28:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 15:28:44 1986
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Sometimes disposable are simply more convenient... but on the whole
cloth diapers will induce far less rash (as long as they are changed
every 1.5 hours or so in an infant, every 2 hours or so in a baby).

We found that diaper pins do not stay very sharp though, and sticking
dull ones through many layers is not easy: use a whetstone to hone
up the point and you save buying new ones all the time.

There are numerous other arguements, like ecological ones, or that
throwing human excrement into the garbage (with disposables) is both
disgusting and illegal in most localities.  But all that aside,
cloth ones are really easy once you do it about 5-8 times (you will do this
in 1/3 of one day...   In short, go for it.
-- 
Name:   Richard Snell
Mail:   Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
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