Word: diapered
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...toxic" part I knew already. Between the catastrophic diaper failure while touring Amish country circa 2004, and the projectile vomiting episode on the way to the beach in '01, my family van has been a rolling Superfund site for years. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...greatest myths is that the intact penis is high maintenance. It's simply not true. All the care the intact baby penis needs is a) wipe it like a finger at diaper changes and b) leave it alone. By the time your son is old enough to retract his foreskin, Joel, he'll be old enough to handle the quick retract-rinse-replace routine in the tub or shower. (And he'll be perfectly happy to take care of that task himself.) Jane McClintock, PRINCETON...
...mother take a diaper off, empty the solids and put it back on," says Goldblum. Not having enough diapers, she realized, has far-reaching effects. "Most day-care centers require parents to provide their own," she says. And without day care, parents can't look for work or go to school. Cloth diapers don't help, because low-income families tend not to have washing machines or cars to get to the Laundromat. Moreover, she knew that babies who sit longer in their own waste get more diaper rashes and cry more. And she'd read the studies showing that...
This is how Goldblum came, five years ago, to start the Diaper Bank (a name, she notes, that sounds less comical--and is easier to raise funds for--than the Toilet Paper Bank). These days, she gives away 200,000 diapers a month in Connecticut, mostly to public-housing authorities, tenants' groups and agencies that work with low-income families...
...first three years, she drove the diapers around herself and learned to use a pallet jack; today she has two full-time employees and buys 250,000 diapers at a time straight from a manufacturer. She has yet to find any makers who will give them to her free. Goldblum, who works on the project full time but does not draw a salary, has talked to some 50 people about starting diaper banks. "We know of six who have taken the next step," she says...