Flushable-Biodegradable Diaper Liners - 3 Rolls-Pack

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• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• ASIN: B000065AF0
• UPC: 064408054539
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,371 in Baby (See Top 100 in Baby)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

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240 of 242 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great for us, April 8, 2005

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Greg Lovern (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flushable-Biodegradable Diaper Liners - 3 Rolls-Pack (Baby Product)

These liners are working out great for us. Unfortunately there seems to some confusion about what to expect from them and how to use them, resulting in unnecessary frustration and dissatisfaction. I thought it might be helpful to some if I explained in some detail how to use them to best effect.

It's usually easier to understand a solution if you first understand the problem it solves, so let's start with the problem. If you're using cloth diapers rather than disposables, and washing your own rather than using a diaper service, and you're baby has started eating solid food and so has more solid stool than when only on milk or formula, it can get messy in the washing machine. Washing diapers at least every three days helps, but it still might be necessary to run diapers through twice, and still have unpleasantries to scoop out of the washing machine.

So what's the solution? The traditional solution is scraping and rinsing off the diapers in the toilet. (Then, I hope, washing and disinfecting your hands.) Ick! These liners are a better solution.

So how do these liners help? By capturing most (not all!!) of the stool. After changing the dirty diaper, you stand over the toilet bowl and peel off the liner, along with whatever stool it captured. Then, flush. The liner is essentially a very strong toilet paper, so it's just as flushable as your own. If the liner is all soaked (I've never seen it completely dirtied), I grab a handful of normal toilet paper to make the job a little more palatable.

Then, put the dirty diaper in it's pail, and the cover (if you're using cloth diapers, you're using covers too, right?) in the dirty laundry pile. You'll still want to wash the diapers at least every three days, but you'll have much less mess.

So, what are these liners NOT intended for, and not useful for? Absorption! If you are using these because you need more absorption, you're using the wrong tool for the job. Sure, they obviously absorb a little moisture, but not enough to make much difference. If you need more absorption, what you need is one or more of the following: a bigger diaper, a more absorbent diaper, an absorbent cloth diaper *insert*. Also, if you're not using diaper covers, you need them.

If you find that every diaper change requires a change of baby's clothes, and of bedsheets at night, then you are doing something dreadfully wrong, and trying to solve your problem by using these liners will be about as effective as throwing a cup of coffee on a forest fire. If it's going that badly for you, you need to ask for help from a more experienced parent (but one who has a baby in diapers now or recently, not one who last did in the 1950's). Ask them to watch while you change baby's diaper, and tell you what you're doing wrong. Blowouts should be the exception, not the rule.

What about the softness/scratchiness issue? Folks, these are fine. They're not as soft as the diapers, but they're not going to be uncomfortable. Any scratchiness problem is far more in the mind of certain parents than in the baby's actual experience.

What about using two of them side by side to prevent any trace of stool from soiling the precious diaper? I think that's overkill. Folks, this is a diaper LINER, not a diaper REPLACEMENT. Expect the diaper -- and the diaper cover, too -- to get some of the stool on it.

Regarding rice paper liners, I can't comment because we haven't tried them, nor felt any need to. Maybe they're even better than these.

Finally, if you're using cloth diapers, you should be using modern, washable, waterproof diaper covers, which are essential protection against blowouts, and eliminate the need for pins.

Is there a downside to using these liners? Only in that it makes the diaper change a somewhat smellier job, partly because you can't put the dirty diaper in the (lidded, of course) diaper pail immediately, and partly because the trip to the bathroom to peel off the liner into the toilet bowl can be a smelly one. But much better than scraping & rinsing.

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I spoke too soon about using two of them side by side to increase the total width. With just one, sometimes it ends up all bunched up along the center, leaving most of the stool on the diaper. We haven't tried doubling them, but now it sounds like a good idea if you don't mind doubling the cost.

Instead, we tried wider rice paper liners (not from Amazon.com). We've gotten through two rolls of them. They are wide enough that it is rarely bunched up along the center. They're cheaper, too. However, they disintegrate much more easily than these non-rice liners, and sometimes end up sort of shredded, which is a mess to try to separate from the diaper to flush.

The rice-paper liners also have an annoying habit of occasionally sticking to baby, then leaving most of the stool on baby when you peel it off. Wiping all that stool off on washcloths, which then go in the washing machine, defeats the purpose of the liners. I could try having a roll of toilet paper handy, but what I've done so far is use wipes, which have to go in the garbage.

If cost is no object, maybe the best solution is two of these non-rice liners. Otherwise, the wider rice liners do keep more stool off the diaper than a single one of these non-rice liners.

134 of 135 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have if your cloth diapering, June 20, 2003

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Linda Lipowski (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flushable-Biodegradable Diaper Liners - 3 Rolls-Pack (Baby Product)

I have twins and I've used cloth diapers since they came home. I use high quality diapers and covers and have never had a problem with leaking and my babies weighed four and half pounds when they came home. These make clean up of feces easier and less messy. Most of the mess is on the liner and that goes in the toilet, which is more sanitary and less time consuming. I don't have to spend hours soaking diapers. I've also never had a problem with diaper rash, and they are now 4 months old. I contribute that to these liners. When they were tiny I'd cut one sheet in half, so one roll has gone a long way. If you want to use cloth do some research and measure your baby. There are literally dozens of covers and diapers to choose from, and you can find the system that fits your baby without leaks or pins, and with the use of these disposable liners more sanitary and less messy and easier on your pocket book and the environment.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent compromise between disposable and cloth, August 9, 2004

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Chandra K. Clarke (Chatham, ON Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flushable-Biodegradable Diaper Liners - 3 Rolls-Pack (Baby Product)

We have used Kushies cloth diapers for a month now and can't praise them enough. We use the cloth diaper, an extra Kushies reusable liner for extra absorbancy and a flushable liner for easy disposal of solid wastes. The diapers are soft and durable, and easy to put on or reposition thanks to Velcro tabs. The flushable liners make clean up incredibly easy and a much neater affair than rinsing out regular cloth diapers; they are also apparently incredibly durable as we've accidentally laundered a couple of those that had just been wet and they survived being pre-soaked, washed and dried without so much as fraying around the edges. We may end up reusing them too! We've not had a single instance of diaper rash. Also, the fact that the diaper doesn't immediately wick away wetness like the disposables means that our little one tells us when his diaper is wet and this will make toilet training much easier. Finally, apart from the environmental benefits, the cost savings are great.

One caveat - the smallest size is probably a bit large for the average newborn, in spite of the package recommendations. Ours fit and worked best after junior hit 10 lbs.