Mom cries in viral video when she can't find diapers to buy

[Aunt Marg]

There's no shortage of drama queens looking for their 15 minutes of fame.

Just so disheartening to know that today's generation of mothers have moved away from diapering the old-fashioned, traditional way, and being that today's cloth diapers are more user-friendly now than ever before, it's hard for me to rationalize with the mothers breakdown.

Even more disheartening is the articles and stories I come across that tell of mothers rinsing out used disposable diapers, so they can reuse them again, or leaving their children in the same diaper for hours upon hours without changing, so as to decrease the number of diapers used through the day/week.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Gee-whiz... when my kids were babies I kept a stack of freshly folded diapers on top of everyone's dresser beside their cribs. Beside the diapers sat a few changes of rubber pants, a couple sets of spare diaper pins, baby washcloths, the baby powder, diaper rash ointment, and Vaseline.

I never once ran out of didies, and aside from checking diapers regularly for wetness/soiling, diapers were changed promptly the instant someone wet/soiled. To make for more absorbent and comfy diapers, I double diapered all the time (day and night), and I used rubber pants religiously.

Diapers, rubber pants, and baby washcloths were kept in the plastic diaper pail until wash day, then when laundry day came (every 2-3 days for diapers), with diaper pail in tow, down the basement I'd go. Pail was emptied into the washing machine, the hot water cycle selected, cycle started, detergent and bleach was added, lid was closed, and when the washing machine finished doing it's thing, out everything came and into a waiting laundry basket it went, then back upstairs I'd go, out the back door of the porch, and all was pinned-up on the outdoor clothesline to dry.

Clean, fresh, soft diapers. No emergency trips to the store for Pampers, and no exorbitant ongoing expense eating away at the household budget.

 

[Judycat]

Yeah but is it OK for a few people to clean off the shelves like that? Buy what you need and leave some for someone else for gad sake. This is why I think all that Together We'll Make It crap is BS.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Yeah but is it OK for a few people to clean off the shelves like that? Buy what you need and leave some for someone else for gad sake. This is why I think all that Together We'll Make It crap is BS.

I agree, Judy. Our stores have finally got with the times and limited all bulk packaged paper products to one per family/household. Toilet paper, paper towels, diapers... one per family/household.

I'm holding out hope that shelves slowly return to normal again, prior to when the pandemic struck, and while daily life may not resume back to normal for a while, I have my fingers crossed on being able to go shopping once again and actually arrive home with everything I set out to get on my shopping list.

 

[chic]

Just a sign of these frustrating times!

I agree. People are just so distressed they hardly know what they're doing or saying anymore.

 

[Rosemarie]

Gaer, I had the same thought. My kids and I managed to survive with cloth diapers, as the disposable ones weren't on the scene yet. A little more laundry, but so what?

We managed with 'proper' nappies (diapers). Better for the environment, and I'm sure they are more comfortable for the baby too. The thought of all those used nappies filling holes in the ground is absolutely disgusting.

 

[old medic]

Mormons are allowed to use birth control.

And MORONS don't.....
Both our Kids had cloth diapers, and learned quick that wet = uncomfortable....and potty trained...

 

[CarolfromTX]

I can understand her frustration. What I can't understand is the attention seeking need to video one's personal distress. Probably the next thing she did is create a Go-Fund-Me page.

When my daughter was a baby, we used a diaper service. I don't think that exists anymore.

 

[Aunt Marg]

We managed with 'proper' nappies (diapers). Better for the environment, and I'm sure they are more comfortable for the baby too. The thought of all those used nappies filling holes in the ground is absolutely disgusting.

I always felt the same, and being the stay-at-home mom that I was, diapering the old-fashioned way just fit in, it worked so well for me.

 

[Aunt Marg]

And MORONS don't.....
Both our Kids had cloth diapers, and learned quick that wet = uncomfortable....and potty trained...

So true. My kids, when they were older, took to standing up in their cribs in the morning, diapers sagging. They couldn't wait for me to come in and change them out of their wet and uncomfortable pants.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I can understand her frustration. What I can't understand is the attention seeking need to video one's personal distress. Probably the next thing she did is create a Go-Fund-Me page.

When my daughter was a baby, we used a diaper service. I don't think that exists anymore.

Yes, and yet one more excellent remedy to a bad circumstance. Diaper services are still around, but not like they used to be. Milk delivery and diaper service was big business when I was a young child (1960's).

 

[Sunny]

OTOH, once we stop laughing, we might see that there's more to this than cloth vs. disposable diapers. This woman may be overwhelmed by accumulating problems in her life, which pushed her to the brink of an emotional meltdown. Any frustration in a store, or anywhere else, could have been enough to trigger tears. Nothing to do with diapers, really.

 

[CarolfromTX]

I have felt overwhelmed a time or two myself, But I don't videotape it and put it on line for all the world to see. She's having a big pity party.

 

[Aunt Marg]

OTOH, once we stop laughing, we might see that there's more to this than cloth vs. disposable diapers. This woman may be overwhelmed by accumulating problems in her life, which pushed her to the brink of an emotional meltdown. Any frustration in a store, or anywhere else, could have been enough to trigger tears. Nothing to do with diapers, really.

I'm convinced there's a lot of truth behind what you said.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I have felt overwhelmed a time or two myself, But I don't videotape it and put it on line for all the world to see. She's have a big pity party.

Being old-school like I am, that's the hard part for me.

 

[gennie]

Diaper changing being unpleasant (smelly diaper pail, for instance) pushed many to early potty training and that was not a bad thing. Pity the poor land fills with the overload of disposables.

Mother Nature welcomes early training.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Diaper changing being unpleasant (smelly diaper pail, for instance) pushed many to early potty training and that was not a bad thing. Pity the poor land fills with the overload of disposables.

Mother Nature welcomes early training.

I recall my mom telling me that a lot of mothers she remembers from back in her day, were the ones who were actually trained, not their children, because the moms were tired of washing diapers.

Me on the other-hand, I let my kids decide (for the most part). When they started showing signs of willingness or were waking up dry in the morning, I started, and if they took a little longer than the kids next door or across the street, so be it, I was good with that, too.

 

[Rosemarie]

OTOH, once we stop laughing, we might see that there's more to this than cloth vs. disposable diapers. This woman may be overwhelmed by accumulating problems in her life, which pushed her to the brink of an emotional meltdown. Any frustration in a store, or anywhere else, could have been enough to trigger tears. Nothing to do with diapers, really.

You may be right. We seem to have produced a generation which is unable to cope with the everyday problems in life.

 

[peppermint]

I don't get it....Many here are older, and probably handle that better....If I didn't have diaper's I would use a clean rag until my husband
came home to buy diapers....I didn't have a car....Remember 1 car for a household.....Almost many on our street had one car.....

 

[Aunt Marg]

I don't get it....Many here are older, and probably handle that better....If I didn't have diaper's I would use a clean rag until my husband
came home to buy diapers....I didn't have a car....Remember 1 car for a household.....Almost many on our street had one car.....

I remember towards the tail-end of my babysitting days, babysitting at few homes where the moms kept an emergency supply of disposable diapers on-hand if/when cloth diapers ran low, and vice-versa, where disposable diapers were used, there was an emergency supply of cloth diapers on-hand ready and waiting.

I definitely remember one vehicle per family/home, that was the norm when I was a kid. Those who had an old pickup truck for taking away yard waste and such were extra fortunate. Housewives/homemakers cooked from scratch, there was none of this pre-packaged stuff around unlike today, and very few people/families I knew ate-out, and when meals were served, the entire family was at the table.

 

[CarolfromTX]

Just for the heck of it, I checked on Amazon and they do still sell cloth diapers. There are some very cute ones that have snaps and are adjustable, size-wise. So the crying Mom does have options if she'd just calm down and think.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Just for the heck of it, I checked on Amazon and they do still sell cloth diapers. There are some very cute ones that have snaps and are adjustable, size-wise. So the crying Mom does have options if she'd just calm down and think.

Recently I was looking at flour-sack towels at WalMart. They were 100% cotton, and judging by all that I was seeing, would make for excellent diapers.