Gauze diapers for newborns

With the advent of the child in the family there are many problems. And one of them - which diaper to choose a baby? Already many years ago there were disposable diapers , which greatly facilitate mums life, freeing from washing. But so far, the debate about whether it is beneficial or harmful for a baby to use such diapers does not subside.

Of course, every woman chooses what is more expensive for her: free time or a healthy baby's skin. Pros and cons are for any diapers. Many mothers are forced to abandon disposable because of allergies to them in the child. And then they choose gauze diapers for newborns. Other women in the first months of the life of the baby use only them, taking care of the health of the baby's skin.

Pros of gauze diapers

Gauze diapers have many advantages:

1. They are available to all and inexpensive for the price. If you can not buy gauze, use any soft cotton fabric for their manufacture.
2. These diapers well let in air, and if you change them in time, the child will never have allergies and diaper dermatitis .
3. These are environmentally friendly things, since the fabric is used for a long time and it is not necessary to solve problems with its utilization, as is the case with disposable diapers.

Size of gauze diapers for newborns

Now everything is on sale for the convenience of young mothers. And gauze diapers can also be bought. But the disadvantage is that they are sold very thin. Therefore, it is better to sew gauze diapers for newborns.

Choose a gauze with a tight weave of threads or a thin fabric, for example, from an old duvet cover. To make one diaper, take about two meters of gauze, fold it into 4-5 layers and stitch along the edges. A square with a side of 50 centimeters will be obtained. In general, the size of a gauze diaper for a newborn is not very important, they can be 75 to 75, and 90 to 90. You can not even spend it around the edges, and each time after washing, but in that case, his life will be less, because on the edges of the laundry will vylazit thread.

How to dress a gauze diaper for a newborn?

This, of course, is more difficult than putting on a diaper. But any woman will cope with this task. There are several ways to put on a diaper:

• fold it into 3-4 layers in the form of a rectangle and lay it under the baby's ass, one end wrapped in front on the tummy;
• fabric can be folded with a triangle, put the baby so that the angle was between his legs, cover this angle of the belly and put two other corners on top, you will get something like panties.

At any method of putting on of gauze diapers they need to be fixed somehow. This can be done with tape, elastic, stickers, you can put dense panties or panties over a diaper, you can swaddle a very small child.

All this seems so difficult for many mothers, so it's no wonder that disputes do not stop, do gauze diapers need a newborn. Opponents say about their low absorbency, the need to frequently change and erase them, that they are poorly fixed and that the active child often gets bogged down.

But for the baby of the first month of life, there is nothing better than them: they are soft, do not irritate the skin, mom immediately sees that the baby is wet. For those who find it difficult to daily wash, dry and iron them, you can offer an alternative: at night and for a walk to use diapers, and at other times - gauze diapers. Many mothers believe that in this case the baby's skin breathes for more time, and the child quickly accustoms himself to the pot. The final decision in the dilemma: a diaper or a gauze diaper, of course makes the mom of the baby.