Eleanor and I watched the Olympics last night together. She watched the divers with much interest. Whereas, she will likely be tall and is already super flexible, I am sure that if she wants to take up diving, she might just be the right body type for it. Now, if we can just get her to put her face in the water…
But what caught MY eye was a diaper commercial. It went on and on about preventing those troublesome leaks. I’ve had the occasional “POO-Tastic blowout” with each of my children. I’ve used both cloth and paper diapers (however, I’m strictly a paper diaper mom at the moment). But I never had much of a problem with pee leaks. Is it really such a problem? After much thinking, I’ve come to the conclusion that my children have / had such fat thighs that they made a gasket around the various diaper openings. I guess the marketing for all these diapers on TV are for the slim-of-leg baby. Baby waifs.
Sigh… Fat thighs are FINALLY good for something. If you are a baby.
I’ve wondered the same thing. I’ve never had a leak in either cloth or plastic even though some mornings I feel like the diaper is carrying about 5 pounds of water weight. Perhaps “leak” is a marketing code word for poopsplosion? So they don’t offend the delicate sensibilities of the TV watching public?
Though in cloth diaper circles I have run into some parents who insist their kid has to wear TWO diapers at a time (durign the day) because he/she is such a heavy wetter. That seems, um, bulky. I think I’d just change the diaper more often, but that’s just me.