gPant diaper, Large, 2 Pack, .
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Baby Products Reviews of gPant diaper, Large, 2 Pack, .
Customer Review: Not perfect, but beats the stinky pail any day
Summary: 4 Stars
Unlike some folks reviewing "green products" - I'm not going to go on about how I'm saving the earth. While a great side benefit - it's not my main objective. I'm more concerned with my son's room NOT smelling like an open sewer. I gave them 4 stars because they achieve my goal - reduce the smell - but they're not the perfect solution. While it may sound like I'm griping - I'm not - I just want folks considering this solution to have ALL the facts - and not just glossed over reviews espousing the benefits to Mother Earth.
PROS:
- I can walk into my son's room without gagging at the smell
- My garbage can doesn't fill up as fast (nor does it smell as bad)
- The diaper covers are cute
IN THE INTEREST OF FULL DISCLOSURE...
- The refills are about 2x more expensive than disposable diapers
- The amount of contact required to flush the inserts - I don't care what anyone says, it's not "easy". You have to peel down both sides (usually holding the end that is not soaked with #1 or #2) then try to get the middle part to drop in the toilet. With simple #1 diapers, this is bearable but not easy b/c the soaked part tends to not want to fall out as easily; when you add in #2... not so fun. The instructions direct you to get the entire middle part out first, then break it up, then toss in the top. While this is nice in theory - doesn't always work as easily in practice.
- If your toilets are "Green" and you reduce the water usage - you may need to change this. One bathroom is pretty much for the kid so the only toilet use is his diapers - I've had to adjust the toilet so we get a nice full bowl of water to allow the diapers to break up and minimize risk of a clog in my ~100 year old pipes.
- They include a plastic stick to break up the inner diaper - which is fine but who wants this hanging around the bathroom? It's not terribly sanitary, and it's one more thing for my kid to try & grab. I rinse it when the toilet is flushing and hang it as high as I can- and it's in a bathroom not frequented by guests.
- I do not travel with these diapers. I'm not going to risk someone else's plumbing, nor am I going to cart around the break up stick. My kid wears disposable diapers when we travel, and for that matter, when I know someone else is going to be watching him, I put him in disposables. I don't mind enduring this much contact with his diaper parts, but I'm not going to ask someone else to.
- Leaking. Nothing has made it out of the diaper (yet), in part because I'm paranoid and change him more frequently; however, I've not had a clean poopy diaper yet. Every time some poo gets on the plastic snap out liner which I toss in the sink with some hot water and soap. It's really not ideal - do you want baby poop remnants in your sink? Do you want to clean it every day? Spray it down with bleach? Again, I do it, but it's all to avoid the stench.
- Wipes: They're still an issue. Stinky wipes alone have not yet made the pail unbearable. Maybe I should just find flushable wipes.
- Night time: We stick with disposable. My son will sleep a good 12 hour stretch and that diaper is loaded when he wakes up. No way I'm going to put him in a g-diaper through the night.
- The Velcro straps - work great so far... one time my son realized he could pull on it and... well it was only once. Also, they're SO strong that if it's not a perfect seal and your holding baby, the Velcro can rub against your arm/wrists (I had scratches on my arm and it took me a while to figure out what had caused it - some exposed Velcro on the gdiaper.
Good luck!
Customer Review: Great buy
Summary: 5 Stars
The Starter kit, if you're thinking about buying G diapers, is alot cheaper to buy several of than to buy one and several covers of. Depending on what you use them for, trips or everyday, you may need a two or three starters or more. The new design is better, it doesn't leak with just one insert but change baby often. Stick to the two hour rule, for those of you who don't know it, every two hours if you can't smell anything, you check. If it smells, you change it. This is not like disposible diapers where people leave them on for four-six hours at a time and the thing just keeps absorbing urine. If that is your practice you aren't going to like these things, they will leak, they are not made to balloon up. FYI Please don't do that! It does cause a red chemical burns and will cause your baby to fuss and scream in pain when you put them in the bath. This is common sense, comes straight out of every baby book, not medical advice (insert not lible yada yada) please feel free to take it or not but you'd be suprised how many people have this problem. Frankly it's a huge petpeeve of mine. It hurts the baby and that hurts my heart. Plus the smell makes other kids leary of playing with your kid and me wanting to sit next to you with that stink. My son's cloth diapers will keep a bad smell in better than some of those disposiables, so there's many reasons to change them. The smell is just worse, if that will motivate where your baby won't. Frankly I dislike disposibles, they are hard on the bottom, even some of the biodegradable corn ones and expensive. These however aren't bad on the bum. But they do fall into the disposible trap, they are just too expensive to use daily. If you buy inserts all at once you can write to the company for a discount or try finding one threw the stores online. But you are better off buying AIO online at the big evil chain store (I can't put the name down so I thought everyone would recognize the reference?). For eighty bucks you can have diapered your kid for life, rather than one month. Please take the advice in kindness, if it sounds preachy thats because it is a pet peeve, it isn't meant to sound so.Customer Review: gDiapers: Changing the world from the bottom up
Summary: 5 Stars
gDiapers: Changing the world from the bottom up
Diapers, a hot button issue among eco-minded parents. Cloth? Disposables? How about a new, middle way: flushing baby's waste the same place as the rest of the family?
gDiapers are flushable inserts fit into adorable cotton g-pants. The inserts are absorbant and, with a practiced bit of tearing and swishing, flush down the toilet. Or the wet ones can be composted; they biodegrade completely in about a month! No diaper pail, no overflowing trashcan. The g-pants don't have to be washed every time, as usually only the insert gets messy. The pants have a waterproof nylon liner which can be removed quickly and easily for a quick wash in the sink when an inevitable "blow out" happens. When the time for washing does come, toss the pants and liner into the laundry.
But the real question is, how well do they work? I've been using them for over a year, and love them! They leak less than the disposables or cloth diapers I used with my first child. As testament to how much so, consider that I don't carry a spare outfit for baby in my purse! With my first child, it was a regular event to have change not just the diaper, but the rest of the clothes too. Now, the diaper always contains everything, everytime! And I like how flexible they are for different situations: use a flushable g, or a cloth insert, or at night add a second flushable for a heavy wetter. I use flushables while out, and at daycare, flushing them when convenient, or disposing of them in the trash when the situation dictates. At home, we use cloth inserts in the same g-pants.
Available in stores and online from several retailers, some of whom offer free shipping. As with almost anything with babies, there is a learning curve, but the customer service for the company is amazingly quick and responsive.
Change your baby AND change the world... from the bottom up! No landfill required.
Customer Review: The "g" doesn't stand for "green!"
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm a civil engineering student, and one of my classes actually studied this as an example of "greenwashing" (marketing a product as sustainable when it's really not). When I saw that people were reviewing these and saying how great they are for the environment, I had speak up . . .
Consider this diaper being flushed down your toilet. The city's water system then uses energy to pump the diaper all the way across town to the sewage treatment plant. Because these diapers take 50-150 days to decompose, the diaper is still intact when it reaches the plant. There, it's screened out from the liquid waste, along with other debris that has made its way into sewage lines. Any guesses where that debris goes? Yep, straight to the landfill! You might as well just throw these diapers in the trash and have them go to the landfill directly -- it would save energy.
The company also tries to sell these diapers based on how quickly they decompose. But the fact is that even biodegradable products barely decompose at all in landfills: they're compacted so tightly among all the other trash that microorganisms can't do their decomposition work.
I know I'm not technically reviewing this product in the sense of giving my experience using it, but I thought these facts were important. I would want to know them before buying diapers! I can see that a lot of people like these diapers because they're easy to use and don't stink up the house. I think the company should stick to marketing them for those reasons, and not make false claims about being "green."
Customer Review: Love them!
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm the mother of two boys (and another child on the way). My first is potty trained and I used disposible only on him. I was starting to feel a little guilty about how much we've contributed to landfills so I decided to try out G diapers on my 2 year old. He has eczema so my first concern was that his skin wouldn't tolerate the materials. However, this was not the case. For the first week his skin seemed a little dry but this must have been triggered by something else or maybe he just grew tolerant of the materials. The only leaks we've had have been at night. Our son sleeps 12 hrs per night. I've tried to double up as suggested on the gdiaper website but the liner didn't stay in place. Maybe after more practice I'll get it right. However, the leaks at night were confined to the diaper and pj pants, they were not bad enough to wet the crib sheets. My husband refuses to try and flush the liners (he thinks anything other that disposibles is weird) but I still feel better about the fact that the liners will biodegrade instead of sitting in a landfill. These diapers don't require too much extra effort and so far, its been worth it. Plus, they look so cute!