Against the wishes of environmentalists, I have to say that the best baby invention has to be disposable diapers! I just can’t imagine how mothers survived without them in the past.
Like most mothers in Singapore, I left the hospital with M and a pack of Pampers. And there’s not a single day since then that we’re without disposable diapers. When I’m out with M, I’ll carry 2 spare ones. At any one time, I’ll have at least 2 packets at home because I stock them when they are on sale.
And the 2 main reasons why I bestowed the title to disposable diapers:
1) Disposable diapers have definitely brought about the ‘mobility’ of babies. Can you imagine an outing or even a holiday with a baby on cloth nappies? Impossible, in my opinion.
2) Disposable diapers allow babies and mothers to sleep through the night earlier. Children generally start potty training around the age of 2 and even later for night-time control. It’ll be torturous to live with disrupted sleep for so long because of the need for nappy change!
As with most things, the convenience of disposable comes with a price, to us parents and to the environment. So do try to potty train your children as soon as they are ready and communicating well. M was potty-trained for her bowel movement before she turned one.
At 28 months old now, she is diaper-free in the day and is comfortable using the toilet seat. She still needs to be diapered when she sleeps and when we’re out because there just aren’t many kiddy toilets around.
And we are certainly looking forward to the day M can go without them!
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