"Let us hope manufacturers can come up..." - Quote by Erma Bombeck
Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to the day when breathing and raising a baby at the same time were incompatible.
More by Erma Bombeck
“Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.”
“The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.”
“I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.”
More on Parenting
“Treat your children like the blessings they are or don't have them at all.”
“My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school. She gave me all the proper guidance and influences, but physically, she just couldn't be there.”
“We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.”
More on Babies
“Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.”
“No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.”
“There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.”