We’ve all done it.  Get ready for bed, make sure all the doors are locked, turn out all the lights, and put a diaper (whether it’s cloth or disposable) on the night stand so that we don’t have to go fumbling through the dark when the baby wakes up in need of changing.

A clean diaper on the nightstand.

A fellow cloth diaper mom (and retailer) did just that.  No harm done, right?

Sadly, here is her story.

One more reason to use cloth!!! It has been a rough day here at our house. I have had Grace in disposable diapers the last two days while I did a thorough strip on my cloth. We had a disposable diaper sitting on our night stand in our room and yesterday while we were at work our dog tore it up and digested some of it.

Last night we noticed her bleeding from her mouth and though she bit her tongue. Cleaned her up and it seemed to have stopped. We woke up this morning to find her covered in blood and that she made a mess during the night all over our room. Took he to the vet to find out she did not have any cuts in her mouth.

After lab work and an x-ray we discovered that the diaper she had gotten into the day before was expanding in her stomach and intestine and caused a blockage that was causing internal bleeding into her liver and kidneys and she had lost a lot of blood and was very weak. After discussing her slim chances to being strong enough to have surgery and the slimmer chances of making in through the surgery we had to decide to have her put down this morning.

It was a very hard day and not something we thought we would have to do to our dog who was very healthy just yesterday morning!!!! And remember this was not a dirty diaper that was left out. A clean diaper on the nightstand. How many of us keep diapers there for during the night. Or in a diaper bag or diaper stacker etc where our pets could easily get to them! I always knew the chemicals in disposable diapers and chose cloth for this reason but never imagined the chemicals in one would kill my dog! 

This is such a sad story.  I would have never thought this would happen to a pet.  Just think.. if you use disposable diapers, your baby’s skin is absorbing the very dangerous crystal chemicals that this poor pooch ingested.  If you haven’t converted to cloth, now might be a good time.  My son’s cloth diapers will not kill a family pet.

The brand she used was the Target Up & Up Brand, and she’s already filed an incident report with Target.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family today as they mourn the loss of  their very loving, very healthy dog.