Nappies in the kitchen bin

[MountCrumpit]

Over the course of Christmas we've visited, and been visited by my sister and her family. My DN is 2 and obviously in nappies.
Both at hers, and ours, I've noticed a pile of soiled (varying degrees) nappies going into the kitchen bin and staying there for however long it takes the bin to get full.

Now I'm a bit weird about bins, never put anything wet in them, taken out every day etc... But I find keeping soiled nappies inside the house, in the kitchen bin, repulsive!
AIBU? Would I quickly get over it if I had kids if my own?

mine went straight in to the wheelie bin in a nappy sack. Keeping them inside is nasty.

Wet nappies I put inside at home, soiled I would put outside straight away. If I was at someone’s house I would ask them what they wanted me to do with it.

Kitchen bins are gross anyway. Yabu.

No yanbu. Soiled nappies in the kitchen bin, especially when they’re toddlers, is really grim imo. I have one child and another on the way, so having dcs hasn’t changed my mind.

Nappies get less offensive as DC get older, and some won't even be soiled by the time they're 2. Your standards definitely drop as a parent though. We started off putting all DD's straight out but obviously got used to the idea of them going in the kitchen bin along the way as that's where they went latterly. Not any insanely poo-ey ones, obviously!

Oh yeah, the answer to your question probably depends on how often the bin gets taken out. Ours always went out daily!

Kitchen bin here. Unless it’s conpletely stinky. I’d ask at someone else’s house though.

I have done this, don't see a problem as long as it doesn't smell.

Yes would never do it at someone else's house though.

I always empty the poo out of the nappy into the toilet though.

I wouldn't want piss and crap in my kitchen in any capacity, definitely not BU!

When she visits your home you should ask her to bag the nappies and throw them directly in the wheelie bin.
What she does in her own home is up to her.
I dont understand why her DD is "obviously" in nappies. Sounds as if your sister is a bit lazy and prefers to to put gross nappies in the bin instead of potty training.

Yanbu.

Dd is 2.5 and I’ve never put her nappies in a kitchen bin.

In nappy sack and into the wheelie bin. We used to have one of those nappy bins that don’t smell in the nursery when she was tiny and having nighttime nappy changes.

Someone told me that poo should really be flushed down the loo rather than binned anyway, but I don’t know many, (or actually, any, other than on MN), disposable users who do. With reuseables, people do tend to flush it ime.

I hoe they were in nappy sacks OP otherwise that is really gross

That is rank. At two they can chew a steak. Tell her to put them outside. And please do not drip feed that she is being changed on the living room floor whilst the Quality Street is being passed around.

Kitchen bins are gross anyway

huh? Is this another mumsnet thing like loo brushes or washing up bowls?

If you don't have a kitchen bin what do you do - trot outside to the outside bin for every eggshell and every teabag?

FWIW I prefer small bins so that you have to empty them regularly, at least once a day or more.

I think it depends on your bin habits

I take ours out every day/every other day so put wet ones in kitchen bin as much more disgusting things go in the bin anyway! Dirty ones I have a nappy bin.

Our binmen only take whats in bags as they pull them out one by one rather than onto the truck so I couldn't take them outside individually anyway.

But yes I think standards slip when your a parent, especially when they are new youd be going outside every 30 mins or more plus if you are alone with a little baby youd either have to wrap them up warm and take them to the bin or leave them alone?

Wet ones go in bin in a nappy bag and dirty ones straight in the wheely bin here. Always ask at someone else's house though.

@poshindevon

I don't have children so In my ignorant mind, I'd have thought that the practice of putting a 2yo who, at someone else's house, on Christmas Day with lots of activity and strangeness going on, who is not yet used to her potty, into a nappy would seem a fairly obvious thing to do? No?

I don't know when the appropriate age is for a child to be independantly toileting IS, so it seemed 'obviously' to me.

How about you get off your high horse.

Potty training a 2yo isn’t the norm among people I know tbh. It’s usually 2.5 - 3 before they’re reliably potty trained, based on my friends anyway.

I would and have put wet nappies in the kitchen bin, which is emptied every evening. Never a dirty one straight in nappy sack and wheelie bin.

Ugh, that's horrible. I have two DDs in nappies at the moment, one baby and one toddler and I always take them outside. I have done for my other 3 DDs too. The thought of them in the kitchen bin makes me feel sick.

I don’t do it myself because I hate the smell of soiled nappies. But I can’t see why it would be a health and safety issue at all. Dirty nappy went into bin. Hand washed. Then new stuff goes on top. It’s not like you go and touch the rubbish do you?