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Originally Posted by navillusc  Ya know...there was a day when we all...well, some of us...  ...used cloth diapers for our human babies, and no one thought much of it. 
I know I did, and was quite upset to have to use paper/plastic disposables for my second child due to lack of laundry facilities. Back in that day, they leaked horribly except for Kimbies, were quite expensive, and my child could only wear one brand because the plastic would break his skin out in a horrible rash.
I have a couple disposable pee pads down for my fur babies at the moment...who are still acclimating to their new lives with us, but they rarely use them because they mostly go outside.
I do like the idea of washables...if mine decide they prefer indoors over outside, and since I used cloth diapers, I would have no health qualms about using washable pee pads. I'd just remove all the solid waste, and soak them a bit in pail...or the washer's soak cycle...of vinegar and borax water, wash them in hot (my washer heats its own) water, borax, washing soda, and laundry soap (like all my other laundry), with bleach if they are white, and put vinegar in the rinse cycle...same as I did with the cloth diapers.  |
I can remember my mom doing all that when I was little. My sisters and I would all go down into our basement and she would do the laundry and now that I think about it that was a LOT of hard work
Thankfully, by the time I had my kids disposable diapers were very good and we all used them. When my youngest was a baby (she's 16 now) I use to joke that a disposable diaper was so absorbent we could toss it into our pool and it would be capable of absorbing the entire pool dry!
Unlike cloth diapers, I really don't think the pee pads need that much treatment. Mine always come out spelling clean after a hot water rinse and regular wash cycle.