tiny said:
Oh -- I remember reading some of your posts from
ages ago and I seem to recall that you were wearing cloth (only?). Have you switched to disposables now? Or using both? Random question -- hope you don't mind my curiosity!
not at all.
there's no straight answer, other than 'both', without an explanation: i'm pretty much wearing cloth mostly; there's the issue with my HS which makes cloth better as they're cleaner than dispies, and dispies can't withstand creams and ointments. i guess you could call it more of a phased transistion back to cloth (as dispies become ever more shitter and contradicting of the design intent of the 'all-in-one'). i have a stash of dispies which i'm only slowly wearing down (Betterdry, Comficare, Indaslip, Tenaslip, Molicare); to be honest, i think twice about wearing a dispy, and of the type/brand, as there's more chance of an infection with them (and it does seem to vary with type and brand).
(oh, and my
aside of the week, and since you like your documentaries, is that i find myself to have lots in common with Karl Marx (inc. HS); Bettany Hughes has a new series on BBC4, Genius of the Modern World, if you haven't yet seen)
so, in context: brought up in trads (70's and 80's), dismissive of dispies when they were introduced, got tempted (if you'd tried the
established disposable options of the 80's, you'd know why), got a liking for Cosifits (a sensory thing: they were the stiffest and crinkliest), outgrew baby stuff and started looking for other options, discovered Slipad and was chuffed (even though they were crap; but so were all dispies back then)....and from thereon it was a mix of trads and dispies, depending on what was available. it wasn't until the mid-to-late 90's that i was regulary buying dispies.
it does feel like we're at the end of a brief era of the disposable all-in-one.
tiny said:
Replacement tabs...? You mean the double-layer tapes that have a blue layer that sticks down first, allowing you to unpeel the top white tape and reposition it? Like on Abena AbriForms? Yeah... virtually every single diaper I've ever tried has those.
no, i mean replacement tabs bought seperately (honest!)
they were usually about a quid [for a pack of however many] and really crap (just a flimsy double-sided tape with a blue grab strip). corner-shops often sold them, along with the locally made dispies (before Pampers & co killed them off).
edit: thought i'd best add, for the OP, and with regard to double-sided tape, as just mentioned above, that the double-sided tapes available generally, including carpet-tape and the like, also suffer from the effects of bodyheat.
