making cloth reusable menstrual pads

[ChickensAreSweet]

I have some and they are great! I use both disposables and the cloth ones (whichever I am in the mood to use). I bought them on internet somewhere but I forget where.

The cloth ones are far superior in comfort.

GO for it!!!

 

[lil'turkeymama]

That is such a great idea.I know something was used before all the stuff we have today but I didn't realize it was so easy.Good luck with that.

 

[jc12551]

Hey do you need a tester

? They look really nice.

I love mine and buy from many different WAHMs off diaperswappers.com and hyena cart in addition to making my own. My English mid-wife suggested them to me after years of problems. Turns out the chemicals in the disposables were to blame for my problems.


As for leaking, I back mine with fleece and they have never leaked. I just rinse them out in cool water, drop them in a bucket behind the toilet and wash them with the regular laundry. They are cleaner than my boys' undies at times!

There are websites that sell adult cloth diapers.

I do cloth diapers too and it is no big deal. My house does not smell like dirty diapers (like it did when I used disposables)! Cloth diapers are not all about pins and rubber pants anymore. Check out Happy Heineys or BumGenius for a fresh look. I still use the flat diapers like grandma b/c they are easier to wash and dry.

 

[crosbygroup]

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I think you need to find some nice chicken print fabric to increase your marketing here at BYC. You can't have to many chicken items.

 

[goldenluver]

the problem of my making cloth diapers to fit my mom would be how much yardage I would have to use to make them for her, she weighs 370lbs.

 

[goldenluver]

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I think you need to find some nice chicken print fabric to increase your marketing here at BYC. You can't have to many chicken items.

I may have to find some in chicken prints in flannels.

 

[critterranch]

this is interesting! go green ladies

 

[chicknerd]

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I have a sensitivity to chemicals. The cloth ones are great!! Excellent idea!!

 

[goldenluver]

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I have a sensitivity to chemicals. The cloth ones are great!! Excellent idea!!

I am sensitive to the other ones as well, let me knowif you want to buy some, the link for them is in my sig line

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

We had a beloved giant MS patient in a nursing home where I worked; we used twinsized cotton sheets, folded just like a regular baby flat diaper, only giant. Kept a washer tub next to the bed, laundered nightly with simple salt/borax/soapflakes nondetergent, TOTALLY cured her skin breakdown! Rarely we'd put a cotton terrycloth towel tucked into the abdomen skin fold if she were starting that moist/fungal breakdown, (then change to low carbohydrate diet for a while, its related to sugars). the plain cotton, done lovingly, was no more effort than the shipments of plastic diaper and wipe supplies, when the work and expense of constant skin breakdown was factored in.

Later I adapted this to cloth diapering my babies. Saved us Tons Of Work. Instead of buying wipes, keep spray bottles of water and plain washcloths close by, launder with the diapers.

BUT NEVER USE "FABRIC SOFTENER", IT MAKES A BARRIER THAT WONT LET THE COTTON BE ABSORBENT! And if you use polarfleece for a moisture barrier over the diaper, never put that in the dryer, or it will lose it's moisture barrier.

I have heard discarded flannel sheets are being used in long term care facilities, too. But they'd have to be all cotton.

I think your pads are delightful. How would I buy some? Do you take orders?