Comments on: Baby Talk: The Moro Reflex

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:47:40 +0000

Embarassing: My brother is 26 and we still call him Baby Jack.

By: Tdave

Tdave — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:45:07 +0000

A relative laughed when she read about gDiapers. She said they had those when my uncle was a baby, he wore them. My uncle was born in 1945.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:52:06 +0000

More on the baby reflexes:
If you hold a baby with its feet touching the floor, it will attempt to take a step.
If you rub the baby’s cheek, it will turn its head (to nurse).
Babies can hold up their own body weight for several seconds (the baby will grasp your thumbs and hang, like an adult attempting to do chin-ups). This is a remnant of early primate babies holding onto their mothers.

There are several others, but I can’t seem to remember them. Also, many of the reflexes are only present for a short time and will dissapear as part of normal development.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:09:16 +0000

I used cloth diapers for my daughter almost 17 years ago — just bought the jumbo pack of two dozen, almost-square flannel fabric ones and plastic pants. While it didn’t encourage her to toilet train any quicker, she didn’t fill up landfills with matter not intended for a garbage dump (ie. feces). When it came time to empty out the poo, I’d just dunk the thing in the toilet, shake, hang on tight and flush. And I cannot stress to you how important the “hang on tight” part of that process is … !

By: Heath

Heath — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:34:47 +0000

We’re on our second ‘diaperless’ child – google “elimination communication”. It’s great – we only cloth-diaper our three-month old at night or when we are out, and she uses the toilet all day at home. She and her sister were both signaling their needs by 4 weeks. The diaper load is sparse enough we can launder on our own, no problem. And the babies love it!

By: tinfoil

tinfoil — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:36:17 +0000

I use cloth diapers for the spawn and am suitably pleased with them.

Granted, I don’t have any real first hand knowledge to compare it to.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:02:46 +0000

Just to provide an opposing viewpoint to Lindsay M, we found it much easier to use cloth diapers later (our son was small and didn’t fit in them until later). Our son is now one, and we really like the cloth diapers we use. We started out with a diaper service, but they were expensive and more labor intensive. We eventually ended up using Fuzzi Bunz and *really* like them. We use a dry pail and wash them every 2-3 days, when there are solids we rinse with a spray attachment (google “mini-shower diaper”) we got for the toilet (although most solids fall right out of the diaper). It’s a great system for us, but there are lots of great alternatives out there.

By: SpaceMonkeyX

SpaceMonkeyX — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:47:45 +0000

Diapers:
We’re expecting in January and are going to try the gDiapers as our primary diaper. We’d ordered some from the site already and then luckily we had a little test subject for one day – our newborn niece who was visiting. I can definitely say that they held all the, uh, refuse really well, fit great, and the flushables thing is awesome (especially for me, the dad, who would otherwise wind up taking out the garbage every day). We’re still going to keep disposables and cloth ones around for emergencies and such, but as of right now we’re going to be a gDiaper family.

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:47:04 +0000

My youngest had just passed beyond diapers when I first heard of these. I almost wished that she would relapse just so I could try them, but then I remembered that I hate to change diapers. All of my friends who have kids that small are too entrenched with the diaper cartel to switch.

I first heard about them on a radio show. Several parents called in to say how much they loved them. The starter kit is reasonably priced – I would definitely try it if I still had the need. Perhaps I should start giving the starter kit as baby shower gifts?

By: caitlen

caitlen — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:29:55 +0000

n2y2 – have you used these gDiapers, or do you know of anyone that has? They look like a fabulous idea, but I’m disconcerted by the lack of a picture of the actual diaper on that website. Admittedly, I didn’t look at any other sites besides the official one, but I’m at work and all that searching takes away from my comment-posting, er, work time.