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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 33912" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I found out how much water those disposables could absorb when easy child was a baby and we were visiting my parents. My mother was outside hosing her garden and my father was used to washing up after dinner, but we chased him away and asked him to take the baby outside so both grandparents could enjoy her together. My father was grumpy and did it in bad grace, we felt a bit guilty for changing their routine. But when we had finished cleaning up we heard giggles from all three of them and tiptoed outside.</p><p>In the twilight, my mother was flicking the hose onto easy child, who had her hand outstretched from the stroller to play in the water stream, a big grin on her face. Every time the water flicked her way she giggled and that set off both grandparents. I don't know how long they'd been playing at this - my mother had sat herself down on the picnic chairs, so they'd been at it for some time - we snapped a photo when they weren't looking, it's one of my favourite memories of my parents, playing with our daughter.</p><p>And easy child, when they finally brought her inside, was soaked to the skin. Her nappy was so heavy from soaking up water from the hose, the stroller was soaked - even the grandparents were soaked.</p><p></p><p>One other overloaded nappy incident - we were holidaying in Perth and had visited a toy shop in Fremantle (lovely place!). easy child 2/difficult child 2 was 15 months old and had fallen in love with a wooden flappy duck toy in the store, wouldn't leave until we bought it. It was so gorgeous that we gave in and it's still a treasured toy.</p><p></p><p>But we'd been away from our accommodation for too long and had not brought a spare nappy with us. It had been a hot day and she had been drinking a lot, the nappy was as loaded as easy child's after the hose play with grandma & grandpa. But we were driving a borrowed, extremely clean car and had half an hour's drive to get back to our supplies. What could we do? As soon as we sat easy child 2/difficult child 2 down the nappy would leak just from sheer pressure of body weight.</p><p>No worries - husband is ingenious. He got a plastic shopping bag (the thin kind that we get at grocery stores) and cut two small holes in each lower corner. We threaded the baby's legs through the holes, stretching the plastic round her thighs for a snug fit. The handles on the plastic bag then slipped neatly over the baby's shoulders. She sat in the car with no leakage, although when she got out of the car she rustled when she walked. Flamin' brilliant! One clean, dry car and one contained overloaded baby. </p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 33912, member: 1991"] I found out how much water those disposables could absorb when easy child was a baby and we were visiting my parents. My mother was outside hosing her garden and my father was used to washing up after dinner, but we chased him away and asked him to take the baby outside so both grandparents could enjoy her together. My father was grumpy and did it in bad grace, we felt a bit guilty for changing their routine. But when we had finished cleaning up we heard giggles from all three of them and tiptoed outside. In the twilight, my mother was flicking the hose onto easy child, who had her hand outstretched from the stroller to play in the water stream, a big grin on her face. Every time the water flicked her way she giggled and that set off both grandparents. I don't know how long they'd been playing at this - my mother had sat herself down on the picnic chairs, so they'd been at it for some time - we snapped a photo when they weren't looking, it's one of my favourite memories of my parents, playing with our daughter. And easy child, when they finally brought her inside, was soaked to the skin. Her nappy was so heavy from soaking up water from the hose, the stroller was soaked - even the grandparents were soaked. One other overloaded nappy incident - we were holidaying in Perth and had visited a toy shop in Fremantle (lovely place!). easy child 2/difficult child 2 was 15 months old and had fallen in love with a wooden flappy duck toy in the store, wouldn't leave until we bought it. It was so gorgeous that we gave in and it's still a treasured toy. But we'd been away from our accommodation for too long and had not brought a spare nappy with us. It had been a hot day and she had been drinking a lot, the nappy was as loaded as easy child's after the hose play with grandma & grandpa. But we were driving a borrowed, extremely clean car and had half an hour's drive to get back to our supplies. What could we do? As soon as we sat easy child 2/difficult child 2 down the nappy would leak just from sheer pressure of body weight. No worries - husband is ingenious. He got a plastic shopping bag (the thin kind that we get at grocery stores) and cut two small holes in each lower corner. We threaded the baby's legs through the holes, stretching the plastic round her thighs for a snug fit. The handles on the plastic bag then slipped neatly over the baby's shoulders. She sat in the car with no leakage, although when she got out of the car she rustled when she walked. Flamin' brilliant! One clean, dry car and one contained overloaded baby. Marg [/QUOTE]
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