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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
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One of my daycare parents uses cloth diapers. They don't absorb pee well and once they're not babies they pee a lot more at once. I always have to moderate his water drinking or we'll get a flood. I don't clean the diapers, they do, so there's just a bag of shit going back and forth. And the diapers just always smell. Even clean, those kids are alway slightly smelly. They aren't my first cloth diaper family and I've mentioned that part on Reddit before and people are VERY sensitive about how *their* kid smells fine.
gpt
I babysit for a family that uses cloth and you're absolutely right about the flooding. However she washes them, though, they never smell badly. They also use a lot of wet bags so the stink is contained, at least, for preschool. I come and go from their house two to three times weekly, so I would imagine I'd smell something if it were there to smell. To be fair, mom is a knitter and a sewwer so she knows a lot about how to clean what fibers properly. I'm sure she uses some sort of special soap that won't hurt his sensitive skin but is also hard enough to clean a very poopy mess. Is it disgusting and extra? Yeah. Is every cloth baby smelly? Nah. Definitely not... until their next flood


It's definitely good for the environment, so there's that. I'm sure that's why this family does it. They also compost and the compost bin never smells, either, unless you open it.