opinions on baby swimming diapers (I mean I want to make some)

Little swimmers are expensive where I live, and "not friendly to the environment" so I am going to make some since I already mastered re-usable diapers, so here is the plan:

Outside layer: swimsuit fabric with lining Inside layer (touches skin): stretch velvet? Middle layer: terry towelling?

Thats what I have, I am actually planning to take apart a couple of diapers I made and never used and put the swimsuit fabric/lining combo on and voila!

Does anyone have better ideas? I am looking for them to be quick drying because saskatchewan summers can get quite hot.....up around 30 to 40 degrees celcius, sometimes more. So swimming is the best way to keep the kids cool.

(just to demonstrate the heat........in the summer a t-shirt will dry in 5 minutes in the sun or 1/2 hour in the dryer.

TIA

Michelle Giordano

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Doug&Michelle
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naked, just make sure they don't poo.

Penny S

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small change

Sounds like an idea to me! My biggest concern when I first read your post was that you were likely to turn a splashing toddler into a rapidly sinking anchor within seconds of hitting the water ;-).

Many years ago (too many to reveal) when I was about 5-6 years old my dear mother decided to make me a pair of woollen swimming trunks as we were short of money and being a talented seamstress it was a simple task for her.

I hated them with a vengeance as every time I got out of the water the darn things ended up around my ankles!

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Larry Green

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Knickers to catch the fallout?

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She who would like to be obeye

IN the US, they will not allow the wee ones to swim without a swim diaper. At least in the public pools, of course.

Here's a site that sells them and lists their fabric:

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Angrie.Woman

That's fine for your private pool, but it's not usually allowed in public pools or many public beaches.

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@chartermi.net

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Jenn Ridley

funny, I couldn't bring up any munipcal BEACH requirements for diapering, but I'm sure pools have rules.

When I think babies/swimming/water, I think of a sunny beach next to a river or lake but that's the kind of places I go. Kids should be naked as much as possible, IMO.

Penny

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small change

Mine too. Baby skin is just lovely to cuddle up to as well!

When James was 5, he was having weekly swimming lessons in the local pool... We all used to just dry the kids off and dress them at the pool side rather than shove them in the showers and use the horrid little cubicals, as there were never enough family sized ones to go round... One day he announced that he needed to use the loo before he dressed, so off he went... Five minutes later he came back naked, waving his trunks in the air. They got in a knot and he couldn't get them back on! Caused a few giggles, but the only folk there at the time were the other folk from the lessons.

I often see babies in the pool here in the UK: baby swimsuits seem to be made just like any others: the thinking seems to be that a little bit of baby widdle won't be enough to overcome the vast amount of chlorine in the water, but we'd like the solids to be filtered out!

Naked under fives on beaches don't seem to raise any eyebrows. We are more concerned with ensuring they are slathered in sun block than clothing.

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Kate Dicey

Yes, nudity is loads different in the US than in Europe. I never see little kids nude at the beach, or anywhere here really. You'd probably get arrested for child abuse or something.

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She who would like to be obeye

I remember quite distinctly feeling inappropriate as all the grown women were covering their chests and I was running around in only my white pants with the rows of lace ruffles on the backside.

"Mom, I'm a GIRL. Girls don't go topless!"

Gender identity starts long before developmental differentiation.

-Charlotte

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Charlotte

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I'd have been more worried about the frilly knickers, personally - esp in public! There's always a one-piece cozzy - at least they stay up (ish)

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She who would like to be obeye

Well, I was concerned about being recognised as a girl, so I didn't mind. Don't much wear them now...

Mother's favorite color is blue. I was, as she put it, "bald as a door knob" 'till I was 6 months old. She said everyone thought I was male. Must have scarred me subconciously.

I'm off on holiday Monday to a place where the grown women don't wear bathing suit tops. I don't expect the children will have inhibitions either.

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Charlotte

I actually bought my son some becasue I didn't have time to figure it out! Swim diapers (cloth and disposable) are not intended to keep the pee out of the water--just the poop. Yes, I know, gross, but that's the way it is. His swim diapers have a swim suit fabric on the outside and a poly stretch liner on the inside. There is nothing absorbant in them. they have elastic on the legs and waist and they really do keep the poop out of the pool. His look like a pair of underwear and could be worn by themselves if you like the speedo look, but we put swim trunks over them. Lisa R (in Virginia)

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Bobbie Sews Moore

I had to think of that one for a moment.......not because you are confusing, but because it makes sense. Disposable swim diapers aren't water proof, they only weight the kid down, so now I am thinking that I am just going to use my old bathing suit (too small to ever wear again, from when I was a teen) and just use the fabric and lining. I was thinking it needed padding for some reason, but I don't remember why I thought that.

Thanks very much!

Michelle Giordano

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