To ask nursery to use cloth nappies?

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DS (17 months) is at nursery two days a week, and up to now I've provided disposable nappies for them, while he's in cloth at home. Am thinking of asking nursery to use cloth, but wondered if anyone has experience of this? Will they be at me?

InspMorse of course you put the poo in the toilet, just as you would with a disposable. Or at least should. Really rank to put poo in a bin just as it would be for an adult to poo in a bin.
Read the instructions on the disposable nappy packet, very clear.

Dd's nursery were bemused but ok about using cloth. All was going ok until they had hot days over the summer & wanted to strip babies down to nappies (she needs a bodysuit otherwise to easy to get cloth nappy off!). Or doing sensory play in water/sand/ jelly etc. They'd apologise that they'd put her in a disposable for those activities. When I didn't object too loudly they started using disposable more often so I sent in both cloth and disposable. Cloth wasn't used so I now just send her in wearing cloth & provide disposable for changes. Not ideal (& means we end up washing wraps more often!).

People squeamish about flicking a solid poo off a liner - do you not flush solid poo from disposable nappies, or just bag them up for the bin?!

InspMorse for our nappies:
Take out liner with poo, like small tissue.
Bin as you do disposables (of course with both you should shake over the loo and flush solids)
Put much less soiled nappy in wet bag.
Etc etc
Put washing machine on rinse cycle before wash cycle. Washing machine is linked to same disposal pipe as loo.
Clean nappies come out of machine!
No dirty disposables in wheelie bin for 2 weeks in high summer.

Laughing Elliott They provide the nappies? And launder?

Love it if that's the case.

We cloth bummed my now six year old. Second hand happy set £20. Used by nursery. Easy peasy. Couple more loads a week.

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Do you think nursery staff would actually do that?
I imagine that they would just take the nappy off & fold it up leaving the Mother to go through each nappy before putting it in the machine?

Read the instructions on the disposable nappy packet, very clear.
A long time ago when DC were in disposable nappies, solid poos were indeed flushed. However softer ones were not.

I'm picturing frazzled Mums spending evenings going through a days worth of nappies, scraping them clean before putting on yet another wash...

Sorry, like I said, I have not used cloth nappies.

drspouse

NOBODY meantioned a LINER!!!!
Ok, sorry, I didn't know they had a disposable liner. Sorry all!

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Yeah we had a couple of children at our nursery in cloth. We bagged the whole lot though as the changing table wasn't near a loo.

My nursery wrapped the poo up in the nappy which I just scraped/dropped into the toilet once we got home. No biggie - no difference doing it a few hours old as doing it fresh. They don’t generally poo more than once a day, InspMorse. ‘A day’s worth of poo’ is rarely more than one nappy, assuming they’ve even done it at nursery. Yes, my life may have been slightly easier without having to do that upon getting home with two small boys, but I just had to keep remembering that awful skip of nappies that I wasn’t adding to, and it was fine. Tis done now, and I don’t regret one second.

DS was in cloth nappies and his nursery happily used them, we just supplied plenty and bags for them to go in

My children's nursery was fine with cloth nappies. Most staff hadn't used them before but happy to learn. Used all in ones and was very clear I didn't expect scraping of loose poos just put the nappy in the wetbag and I'll sort at home.

I love all the people so squeamish about poo! Even without cloth nappies you deal with so much poo in babies and toddlers (changing nappies, wiping bums, poonamis, potty training) that cloth nappies are no worse than any of that. And I've never had a poo leak from a cloth nappy!

Yep, cleaning poo off a wriggly baby is a lot more stressful than emptying/rinsing a pooey nappy!

DS1 went to nursery in cloth and then went to preschool in cloth.

The nursery insisted he has a solid nappy bucket with a lid rather than a wet bag but that worked well. They insisted on the disposable liners and they’d chuck the poo for me and bung the rest in the bucket for me to deal with.

The preschool were happy with a wet bag but I gave up on sending him there in cloth after about 6 months when, for the second week in a row, someone had put an unbagged pooey nappy straight into his bag of spare clothes rather than into the wetbag. I was okay with getting them back poop and all, but not smeared all over all his belongings and his water bottle!

On a lot of cloth nappy forums people will insist that you have a right to send them in cloth if you do wish. How true that is I don’t know!

My daycare were happy enough - we were the first. Used two part with disposable liner. Meant they could throw the liner in the nappy bin then nappy went into wet bag. Couple changes of covers and about 10 nappy that I left there and topped up daily

Our nursery were positively delighted for us to use washables, and more than half the clientele did so. Nurseries have to pay quite high charges for the amount of landfill waste they generate and every child in cloth nappies can make a difference to the business profitability.

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Do you think nursery staff would actually do that?
I imagine that they would just take the nappy off & fold it up leaving the Mother to go through each nappy before putting it in the machine

As I said, at my children's nursery they initiated the switch to cloth nappies. They held information sessions for parents on the whys and hows, and gave everyone 2 free cloth nappies. The nursery used their own cloth nappies and used a laundry service. It saved them money, made the place cleaner and, bizarrely, babies started to toilet train much sooner. It became the norm for babies to be fully toilet trained soon after they could walk.

My kids are teens (and nearly) and used cloth nappies at nursery. No issue at all. Why on earth would there be? It's just a nappy! I didn't send them in with squares but with made up shaped bundles.

I thought early toilet training was a cloth nappy myth? I’m pretty sure there is actual evidence to show there’s no difference between clothed and sposied children, but purely from my own anecdata, DS1 was easy to train but at 2.5yo wasn’t breaking any records for age. DS2 has been a bit of a nightmare and at 3 and a bit has yet to actually start a poo in a toilet. My DM says I was over three by the time I toilet trained and I was in terries.

Both our children were in cloth nappies at 2 different nurseries. Neither nursery had a problem with them. Like others have said, we just sent in plenty of clean nappies, wraps and liners each day. The nurseries just disposed of the liners and put the used nappies/wraps in a nappy sack which were then put in the child's bag to pick up at the end of the day.

Ours were fine with it, just requested disposable liners (which we used anyway so no problem).

Elphaba no not a myth.
Average potty training age increased by a year in 1984 after the rapid introduction of disposables.
Not all children in cloth will train early but many will as they are used to a change in sensation when they wee.
My childminder was happy to use cloth. I supplied reusable wipes, easy to use nappies ready to go and a wet bag.
(Anecdote - daughter trained in 2 hours just after 2nd birthday. Never had a poo accident, occasional very small wee leaks when on way to toilet but rare. This is consistent with other cloth users I know)

(But all children are different. It's not a race or a competition and I never mention this in real life!!)

I used cloth with all of mine. 3/4 of mine can be counted as out of nappies early. For reasons that I think had nothing to do with wearing cloth, though. 2 DC quite liked their warm wet nappies & 1 wasn't dry at night for yrs they liked wet nappy so much. I have heard the same about lots of kids & cloth (they like warm wet). Another DC had to be coerced out of nappies with almost punishments, he just didn't like any change.

My eldest was over 3.5 to toilet train in cloth nappies so early toilet training isn’t universal.