Feb. 21, 2000 - Monday
Over the weekend, Harry graduated to Size 2 diapers. Well, I suppose the truth
is that over the weekend Harry used up his last Size 1 diaper and is now wearing
the new ones. There's a little bit of overlap - Size 1 Pampers, for example,
go up to 14 lbs and the Size 2 start at 12 lbs. - and Harry is somewhere in
between so anytime of late would have been good, but this weekend was it. We're
also switching back to Pampers after trying a box of Huggies, because, although
Huggies have the wonderful elastic waistband, they seemed to leak mildly out
the sides from time to time.
Diapers are amazing. Even wet diapers are dry to the touch inside and have some
chemical ability to move moisture through the first layer and into some holding
area that, I'm told, turns it into a gel of some sort. That makes them a little
puffy when wet, or very puffy and solid if full, and easy to identify if they're
in need of attention. Dirty diapers that aren't wet are harder to identify without
looking, but I can only imagine the messiness of cloth diapers. Fortunately
for our ecological conscience, the detergents used to clean cloth diapers are
arguably as bad for the environment as piles of used disposables. So, we're
emotionally off the hook to some degree for taking the easier route. Of course,
we'd like to have recyclable disposables, but we wouldn't want to see the processing
factory.
Harry will also graduate tonight to a crib. We've heard his arms banging against
the sides of the bassinet at night, so I set up the crib we bought on-line and
his mother took Harry for a little shopping excursion to buy sheets. We were
very pleased with Harry's sleigh-style crib and equally pleased with the on-line
store (cribs2go.com) we bought it from. We had a couple questions, both before
and after the purchase, and, unlike the stereotype for on-line buying, they
responded quickly and courteously on all occasions.
