Did anyone's mother use cloth?

[niccig]

Mum used cloth for 3 kids under the age of 4. She was very against us using cloth as she doesn't have fond memories of the soaking pail and the washing line full of nappies. She's come around now that she's seen what I have (mostly fitteds) and she's even knitted DS a few soakers.

[Saartje]

My mother CDed me, as well as my five older brothers and sisters. With the older kids, disposables either weren't available or weren't worth using; and by the time I came along, my parents already had everything they needed, so why bother switching?

MIL CDed DH, too. (How's that for a string of acronyms? :P) He's my age, and was an oldest child; but they switched to cloth on the advice of his pediatrician when his high-acidic urine was burning him in disposables.

[mudder17]

Oh, yes, flatfolds, pins, and rubber pants. I was rinsing out some of Kaya's diapers in her toilet yesterday and my mom walked in and basically said, "Oh yes, I had forgotten having to do all this!" I told her that the minishower has made things much easier, but yes, we definitely have to deal with poop. :)

My older sister's job was to pre-fold the flatfolds, which was in at least two pieces. I remember watching, although I don't actually remember changing the diapers. I was 4 when my brother was born.

ETA: I forgot to mention that she did use disposables with my brother occasionally, since he was born in 1975. I don't think they had disposables when my sisters and I were born (pre-1972). Oh, and I'm pretty sure we still had many of my brother's flatfolds even when he was 20, since they made such great rags and dustcloths. :) DH was also CD'd.

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[ribbit1019]

Yes, my mom CD'd my sister and I ('78 & '81). We were both allergic to disposables, so she really had little choice. I would have been to young to change any diapers then.
She marvels at DD's dipes and loves changing her!! A welcome break for me when I see her, lol!

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[RwnMayfair]

My mother did, but since she used them on me, I have no memories of it. All I remember are some of the pins left from diapering that were still around when I was older and out of diapers. She has commented that the cloth diapers I use are much easier though!

-Melissa

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[new_mommy25]

My mom used prefolds and rubber pants with all four of us kids. I was 5 when my youngest sis was born so I don't think I changed any diapers. I sure remember having to fold the laundry though. Blech.

[toomanystrollers]

My mom had a diaper service b/c my behind could not tolerate Pampers!!!

So she's amazed by my diaper collection :)

[Momof3Labs]

I was born in 1972 and was exclusively cloth diapered. Money was VERY tight for my parents, and they figured that cloth would be better for my skin. Don't know about my brother, but he was 3 years younger, so I wouldn't have been changing him anyways. My mom has been supportive of CD'ing, but was always the first to reach for a disposable when she was changing DS's diaper, lol.

[aliceinwonderland]

yes, but she had no choice.

[ktshea]

Yep, mine did! I'm the youngest (born in '75) so I don't remember anything about the diapers, but when I told my mom I was going to be CDing she thought I was crazy. She used cloth because she says the disposables were terrible. Mom and my MIL were amazed to see the things out there in the CD world these days! My mom told me her favorite diapers were the flat-fold birdseye diapers because she could fold them into fourths or thirds or whatever was needed at any given time. I'll have to take her word on that, though, as I'm too lazy to even do prefolds most of the time. And, she used a wet pail and says it ALWAYS stunk. I wouldn't doubt it! She was shocked and appalled that I was going to put my dipes in a dry pail and (gasp) not bleach them! She quite proudly told me how she always bleached the diapers and they NEVER had stains. After seeing my stash (and helping to sew some of it!) she has come around, though, grudgingly admitting that my UB CPFs are quite soft and the sun takes away any stains without bleach. She was most impressed, though, with the covers (no plastic pants!) and pocket diapers.

I think I really shocked the whole family, though, when I started using wool covers for DD. My mom told me that HER mom used wool covers and hated them because "the baby always felt wet". I absolutely love my wool covers and my baby never feels wet. I can't imagine what Grandma's issue was, unless she hadn't lanolized her covers often enough (which seems odd because they lived on a farm and had sheep; lanolin should have been abundant). It's fun to show them how nice cloth dipes are now!