Is this a thing now? Nappy poo in loo....

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My eco friendly friend tips her DS's poos from the nappy down the loo. (She's not that eco friendly. They aren't real nappies.). Is there any reasoning behind this? She claims it is better for the environment but has no science to back it up. Would do it if I felt it was in any way environmental....

This is a revelation to me. My poor bin.

It depends on so many factors, on having poo that is relatively solid (doesn't happen for a long time if you breastfeed) and on changing your baby relatively near the toilet, I would LOVE to change my ds in the bathroom but there isn't space.
If he's being compliant he'll happily toddle off after a nappy change letting me carry the nappy through to the toilet and tip etc. but if he's clingy/tired/tantrumming then it's the most i can do to keep his feet and hands out of the poo while I desperately try to wrap the nappy in on itself with one hand and stuff it into a sealed-top nappy bin....

Things that sound so easy 'just tip the poo into the loo' aren't always that easy in real life with a toddler!

God, this is a sign of the times. I'm vair old (born in 60s) and in the days of Terry nappies when my siblings and I were in them, it was apparently standard practice to scrape as much excess poo off them before soaking the nappy in a bucket of something-or-other.

I remember holding the terry nappy firmly by the corner whilst you flushed the loo, which helped take off all the poo. One bucket for poo-y nappies & one for just wet ones.

How does anyone express surprise and shock at poo going in the loo?

I was repulsed when I realised that disposable nappy users didn't always do this...

I'm also vair old so come from the "terry nappies and a soak in a bucket with Napisan" era and always flushed poo down the loo. I've always done similarly when changing dgd's nappies too.

Like another poster has said, you don't shit in the dustbin do you? So why fill it with poo when there's a perfectly decent lavatory designed for the disposal of human waste?

Why wouldn't you? I wouldn't want all that poo clogging up my washing machine.

If possible ds's goes in the loo, but 9 times out of 10 it is not possible. Nappy goes in bag then in outside bin - changed fortnightly, but doesn't smell any worse than the bin smelt pre pooey nappies.

I never did, it never occurred to me to and I would've been difficult as we had a separate loo and bathroom, I can imagine doing it if your bathroom is big enough to change the baby in and has a loo in it. We had a nappy genie and changed ds in his bedroom.

I must say I don't know hardly anyone who changed their baby in their bathroom - too small, too cold, too upstairs- so I'm not buying that excuse ;)

Always flushed poo down loo and my 'kids' are now in their 40s. Terry nappies, held corner, dangled nappy in loo, flushed loo to remove nearly all poo, then into a bucket of Napisan to soak before washing. Can't imagine having stinky disposables in a bin for a week or more.

WHy wouldn't you do this? I usually changed in bathroom. If I couldn't, I took the nappy into the bathroom afterwards.

It is horrid to put human faeces into landfill if you can avoid it.

My mum was always aghast that I didn't do this as standard.

Well, I do, but I don't have a particular poo spatula to scrape nappies. If it's a particularly solid turd then I would.