Hi all! We were one of the Texas families that didn’t have electricity for several days during the “cold snap” but we were fortunate to have a generator. The generator powered our furnace fans, lights, tankless water heater controller (LP), and other necessities. What it didn’t do was to power the clothes washer or any other high electricity use appliances. Anyway, during this time, I used disposable diapers, though my supply was limited so I got a little creative at the end of the power outage. Even though I had several bags of disposables remaining, I started using a single cloth diaper with folded cloth “boosters” at the center to conserve the disposables. I’m a slow, nearly constant leaker except when I gush when exerting myself, sometimes as simply as standing up. Nighttime is usually a bad time for leakage, which generally requires a premium disposable with a booster or double cloth diapers, which I use most of the time. During the day, I usually choose to wear double (thinner) cloth under a dress and control brief to manage my leakage. Because I’m quite short and very slender (no butt...), the diapers fill me out and make me appear more normal and less anorexic! I have a healthy selection of looser printed dresses that conceal the diaper outline quite well. When I’m in jeans or shorts, I use a disposable. Anyway, my point.... I started using a single diaper with two of those yellow microfiber towels from Sams, folded together into thirds and placed at the center of the diaper. The thought being that if I had to wash by hand, as we had no idea when our power would be restored, washing one diaper and small towels would be easier. It’s not like the absorbency of double diapers but worked quite well with a less padded profile. I’ve also used the double towel booster solution in disposables when I ran out of boosters. It lacks the convenience of simply rolling the diaper and discarding but honestly, a simple rinse and launder (with whites) worked quite well. Those small towels are cheap, comfortable, very absorbent, and didn’t bunch.
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