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To bin pooey pants?

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TheBleedinObvious · 19/08/2013 01:21

Inspired by another thread.

I used to work in a nursery and whenever a child pooed their pants we would bin the pants rather than hand them back to the parents.

Was this right? Or would you have preferred to have them handed to you in a bag to be washed?

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hardboiledpossum · 19/08/2013 10:06

When i worked in the nursery i just scraped the poo out and rinsed them out before bagging up for parents to give a machine wash at home. It would annoy me if nursery chucked dirty pants, it seems such a waste.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 19/08/2013 10:12

I think bin and consider the replacements as optional whether returned to nursery or not is a perfect way forwards - thanks for the tip as I often work in pre-schools

Floralnomad · 19/08/2013 10:17

I think I would bag and hand to the parent to do as they wanted . I'm in the health care profession and we are not allowed to bin shitty clothing ,it all has to be returned . I can guarantee if you bin something some relative would complain that their granny came in with 6 pairs of knickers and now there's only 5 !

cece · 19/08/2013 10:20

Having a child who has pooped his pants everyday at least once then I would prefer to have them back to wash. I'm getting really good at it now.

cece · 19/08/2013 10:22

For the past 12 months...

pigletmania · 19/08/2013 10:24

I would ask the parent as they might not be able to afford new pant. Yes supermarket cheapies for training stage for tat very reason!

StHelenInPerson · 19/08/2013 10:43

Why not just wash them?
It's just a bit of poo that comes of very easily and doesn't stain if washed as soon as it was done.
Wash them in a basin under a tap then machine wash.

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TheBleedinObvious · 19/08/2013 10:46

It was a small nursery attached to a ach and I don't think there was a policy.

No complaints about it while I was there either.

There was no sluice either or nappy bins

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TheBleedinObvious · 19/08/2013 10:50

It was a small nursery attached to a school and I don't think there was a policy.

No complaints about it while I was there either.

There was no sluice either or nappy bins so nowhere to rinse the pants and I binned them as I didn't think it was a good idea having poo pants in a bag sitting around for up to 6 hours.

If I was to work in nursery again I think I would phone the parents straighy away to check if I could throw them out first.

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LurcioLovesFrankie · 19/08/2013 10:57

It did used to annoy me that nursery didn't at least shake the poo off! Given that all the nursery staff wore gloves for changes, how hard is it to hold the pants down the loo, and flush to rinse the worst off before bagging? (And DS went through a nightmare 3 months of pooing in his pants more or less daily before he got the hang of things, so that would have been a lot of pant purchasing! NB he had to be potty trained to a certain timescale because he needed an operation which necessitated him being dry and clean. My advice if you have the choice is go for one extreme or the other - either elimination communication from the word go if you have the stamina or leave them in nappies as long as possible.)

Tailtwister · 19/08/2013 11:04

Personally I would prefer them binned. However, the nursery just bag them up poo and all. They use these dissolvable bags which you can just put straight into the machine without touching the clothes. I did open it up on the one occasion DS2 had an accident and was glad I did. It was just full of poo! I wouldn't want that in my machine.

BellaVida · 19/08/2013 11:10

This is going to sound gross, but it depends on the consistency < boak>. If it was a hard poo with little mess then remove, flush poo, rinse and machine wash. If it was squiggly, bin the lot!
When they older ones were at nursery - they went from being babies- they just bagged the lot up, poo and all, and handed it back. Nice!

Sirzy · 19/08/2013 12:09

Unless it was a case of "just flick it out" and them just being a little bit dirty then bin them! I do the same at home so wouldn't expect anything different from nursery!

Scruffey · 19/08/2013 12:14

The nursery binned a pair of my ds's pants when he pooed them. I would have washed them, but didn't really care either way. Tbh I was more upset about the time spent sewing in the name label that got binned as well .

JeffActually · 19/08/2013 12:18

Surely it's no different to the nursery bagging up reuseable nappies and sending those home. My DH has the glorious task of sorting through the bag at the end of the day - I suspect it will be no different when DD is in pants. Throwing away clothing no matter how cheap seems wrong!

babyboomersrock · 19/08/2013 12:26

I can't believe how many people think it's ok to throw pants away because they're soiled. No wonder landfill is such a problem in this country.

Crowler · 19/08/2013 12:32

I don't really mind giving a quick scrub to my kids poopy underwear before putting them in the wash, I've become inured to it all. I would only bin them if they were on their last leg.

sherbetpips · 19/08/2013 12:33

bin them - our nursery didnt one time (not even in a bag) and I ended up having to throw away a whole washload that was covered in poo threads - it stank!

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