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Forums:Forum Nav:   post #1 of 13 Thread Starter  Seriously, if
you hate bugs, stop reading now.  I mean it, you will be
horrified.  Still with me? Great. Last summer, unbeknownst to
me, some fruit flies managed to find the diaper pail and lay
their eggs in the poopy diapers. I was happily going about my
business putting diapers in the washer, when I opened one up and
it was CRAWLING with maggots on the inside. Now, I am UBER
phobic about bugs in all their stages, and larvae are the worst.
It may sound silly, but this was about as traumatic a thing for
me as I can imagine (at least with relation to diapering). From
that day on, DH has washed all the diapers (switching to
disposable was never really an option). I figured it was just a
fluke, since we had a mess of flies last summer. I was actually
just thinking I might be ready to start helping out with the was