How to sew reusable diapers from a gauze

How to sew reusable diapers from a gauze

Reusable gauze diapers were used in times when it was only possible to dream of pampers. Today mothers choose them for the purpose of economy or ecology as such diapers practically cost nothing and do not pollute the environment after ejection. It is possible to make them independently – the main thing, to know proportions of a piece of a gauze necessary for tailoring of diapers.

Pluses and minusymarlevy diapers have certain advantages in comparison with usual pampers – they are economic and very quickly dry after washing and also do not cause in the kid of allergic reactions. In a dry gauze diaper the child does not feel almost any discomfort as oil-cloth elements which can soar skin in it are absent. Same concerns also the elastic bands able to press yagodichka – in this kind of pampers this problem is solved at the expense of decisions about which it will be told below. Besides, at timely replacement of a reusable gauze diaper on skin of the child there will be no irritations and an intertrigo as the gauze is the breathing material.

Some mothers use old bed linen which does not demand monetary expenses at all instead of a gauze.

The fact that in them genitals of babies whereas in pampers this process is inevitable do not overheat is considered the biggest advantage of gauze diapers. Infinite washing and ironing of a clean gauze belongs to their shortcomings that is quite tiresome and exhausting occupation. Besides, the money saved on purchase of traditional pampers all the same should be spent – for payment of electricity, gas, powder and water which are necessary for boiling and washing of gauze diapers. According to pediatricians, use of such self-made pampers is expedient only in case the family has financial problems or leads a "eco-friendly" life. Tailoring gauze diapers the first stage get a qualitative gauze which can be bought freely in the pharmacies or specialized shops trading in fabric. Width of a pharmaceutical gauze usually does not exceed 90 cm whereas on one gauze diaper you need 1-2 meters – depending on a way of its fixing on a body of the child and a type of a diaper. There are two ways to sew this kind of pampers. Take a cut of a gauze of two-meter length, put it in half then sew from a cut a square with proportions of 100х90 cm. Do not forget to leave a small hole through which you will turn out a diaper seams inside. A lack of such diaper is its modest thickness.

That in the course of use of edge of a gauze were not tousled, stitch them manually or by means of the sewing machine.

For the second way take a two-meter piece of a gauze, put in half, sew and turn out seams – at you the two-layer rectangle from a gauze of 50х90 cm in size will turn out. Put it by three-four times (considering the desirable width of future diaper) and stitch a gauze that it was convenient to you to erase pampers, without putting it anew every time. For fixing of a gauze diaper on the child you can use safe pins or elastic bandage. If you do not want to fix a diaper foreign objects, just swaddle the child's legs a diaper over it or put on the fitting panties.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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