Clodi VS Pospak ?

Cloth diaper (clodi)/popok kain VS popok sekali pakai ? Jawabannya tergantung bunda sekalian. Baik clodi maupun pospak memiliki kelebihan dan kekurangan masing-masing.

Untuk bunda yang idealis paham betil tentang dampak buruknya sampah. Clodi menjadi pilihan nomor 1. Tidak tanggung-tanggung, keinginan dalam pikiran semasa hamil yaitu memakaikan baby clodi 24/7.

Oke, so lets we check out kelebihan dan kekurangan dari masing-masing jenis popok tersebut.

Kelebihan Clodi

1. Anti ruam. Bayi yang menggunakan clodi lebih terhindar dari ruam karena kain alas ompol yang tidak mengandung bahan kimia.
2. No sampah. Hal ini menjadi faktor utama bagi bunda pencinta lingkungan dan sangat aware dengan masalah yang akan ditimbulkan sampah jika menggunakan pospak.
3. Bisa dipakai berkali-kali. Satu clodi bisa dipakai berkali-kali bahkan bisa dipakai turun temurun.

Kekurangan Clodi 

1. Mudah bocor. Clodi tidak memiliki indikator sudah seberapa banyak tampungan yang dikandungnya. Sehingga tanpa sadar ompol dedek bayi sudah merembes saja.
2. Harga mahal diawal. Harga clodi per satuan bisa mencapai ratus ribu rupiah. Jadi siap-siap merogoh kocek besar pada awalnya.
3. Butuh tenaga ekstra. Setelah memakai clodi tentu saja clodi tidak dibuang begitu saja. Bunda harus punya tenaga ekstra untuk mencuci agar bisa digunakan kembali. Selain itu bunda juga perlu mengetahui cara perawatannya agar clodi tetap awet untuk jangka waktu yang lama.

Kelebihan Pospak

1. Praktis. Pospak sangat memudahkan. Sehabis pakai tinggal buang. Tidak perlu cuci mencuci. Aman dan nyaman untuk dibawa kemana-mana.
2. Pernukaan kering. Hal ini menjaga bayi tidak merasakan basah yang bagi sebagian bayi bisa membuatnya gusar.
3. Jarang bocor. Dibandingkan clodi pospak lebih jarang bocor.
4. Harga murah. Harganya murah per satuan.

Kekurangan Pospak

1. Bisa menyebabkan ruam. Kondisi yang pengap dapat menyebabkan bagian pribadi dedek yang basah lebih mudah ruam.
2. Karet berbekas. Kulit bayi masih lembut dan halus jadi ketika dipakaikan pospak maka lebih sering berbekas. 

Begitulah review clodi VS pospak yang saya alami. Saya memakai kedua jenis popok tersebut. Saya ingin menggunakan clodi 24/7. Namun malam hari saya ingin beristirahat dengan tenang sehingga dedek saya pakaikan pospak.

Pregnancy -Baby Myth from Bangka, Indonesia

When it comes to pregnancy, you will heard lots of people's opinion. Some may makes you happy to hear that but some may put you down while hormones makes you emotionally unbalance. It makes happy when they said 'congrats' or other positive things but some word may scared you. For more when you heard something insane like a myth. You'll probably said 'oh really?'

More than half of Indonesian live by myth. Believe on something which has no correlation acts could be danger to your womb. I don't know the entire pregnancy myth in Indonesia. But here some myth I have heard while stay in Bangka Island, Indonesia.

1. Don't twist your towel over your head after bath. It could makes the umbilical cord twisted you baby.
2. Don't start in the middle of door. It could makes your baby's head stuck while labor. In fact, standing in the middle of door could harm you if someone in rush and crash you or because door is the biggest airflow hole in the house, you could inhale outside viruses.
3. Corset will make your postpartum belly small faster. In fact, exercise are needed to make your separated abdominal muscle come together again. It has nothing to do with the corset.
4. Wear 'gurita bayi' for your baby so she/he had no big/gassy belly. In fact 'gurita bayi' is not recommended to use because infant breath by their abdomen. Gassy belly could reduced by burping the baby often, especially after feeding.
5. Straightening infant leg while swaddling will avoid clubbing foot. In fact, thight swaddling in leg area may caused hyp dysplasia.
6. Rubbing some honey in the lips will makes his lips shiny. In fact, infant may swallowed bacteria called clostridium botulinum which is dangerous.
7. Giving water is good. In fact, under six months old baby who swallowed water could interfere their body to absorb the nutrients in breast milk.

This myths bothering me a lot in the fast. But now I can deal with it. Myth is exist in our daily life. But as long as I knew the truth I have no dare to at least implement them to my life. I have no regret to share my experiences. I will believe what makes sense to me and stand for the right.