Most mothers should feel a sense of obligation to breastfeed their children.

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They also chose cloth diapers, so of course I stocked them up with a big supply of various new all-in-ones, pocket diapers and about 6 dozen unbleached organic prefolds as well..to save them the expense of buying them.

The cloth diapers!

I saw a news item a week or two ago stating that many poor women have taken to re-using disposable diapers...drying the ones that are only wet...or leaving their kids in them too long...because they're so expensive.

So the discussion went in this direction...A: So why don't women use cloth diapers instead?

B: Well, they do cost more at the start, but over the long run they are cheaper....HOWEVER...many women don't have washers and dryers, and laundromats don't allow the washing of dirty diapers in their machines.

Which sounds like we should pity the women for their "plight" except for this...

I asked my mom last week how she dealt with my dirty diapers when I was a baby, some 60 years ago. She and my dad lived in a crummy two room apartment...no washer or dryer.

Her answer...she washed them BY HAND in the bathtub with detergent, bleach, and a washboard.

If women did that even half the time, their kids wouldn't have to sit around in recycled, pissy diapers