Nappies Causing Maggots

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Can someone please help...

This is the second time we've gotten maggots, the only thing I can put it down to is this has started since having a baby therefore creating a mountain of nappies lol.

After the first time I bought a Tommee Tippee nappy bin thinking that would help due to the individual wrapping and being slightly scented but it hasn't. Im not sure what to do going forward...

I'm also not sure what to do to keep it at bay as we have another week until bin day so I know it is going to be horrendous by then 😬 I know bleach and hot water is the trick but I don't want to fill up the bin with liquid whilst there is rubbish in it.

Any advice would be great appreciated🙏🏼

We used disposables and cloth nappies at times and never had flies.

Disposables - take them out of the house asap. I never used nappy bags, just folded them over and did up with the tabs to make a ball. The bin smelled but it was ok.

Are you changing nappies too often? I left them on 3-4 hours, or until a poo.

Poo from either reusables or disposables goes in the loo wherever possible. Use a tool to scrape if necessary.

With reusables, we had fleecy liners that you could hold against the water coming into the loo, it blasted off any poo. The nappy bin would smell a tiny bit but we washed every second day or so.

It was a tiny bit of faff to use reusables but DC never had nappy rash, we never ran out (even when shops sold out in pandemic) and they gave the DC cute little round bottoms. And way fewer poonamis, as PP say.

Breastfed baby poo is basically a bit like soup, it comes off nappies just fine in the washing machine

Some very stupid glib replies on this thread.

I did use disposable nappies. I did not want a bin full of poo or maggots so I did indeed flush the poo down the loo. It didn't involve "scraping" just a bit of gentle shaking. Over in 2 seconds. If you can't deal with a bit of baby poo you probably shouldn't have children.

Absolutely did plop poops down toilet from nappies (both disposable or washable). No scraping, that would be gross. if it is stuck, then so be it.

Have you contacted your council to mention that your bin collection schedule is not working for you? if enough families complain, they might change the frequency.

Yeah; if you’re not willing to coop liquid newborn poo off a DISPOSABLE nappy then you should call the social and have them poor bairns taken away 😂

Maybe if you’re so precious you can’t be fucked to use reusables then you shouldn’t have children either?

Or maybe we all do things differently!?

These bin schedules, two and three weeks, are ridiculous.

I've had this exact problem this week, our black bin only gets collected every other week, alternating with the recycling.
Our wheelie bin lid was crawling and so was inside. Absolutely disgusting. I'm hoping it was that bad because of the very hot weather.

We have an 18month old and never had maggots, you're putting them in a nappy sack right?

Speaking of (very) ‘stupid’, ‘glib’ replies….

You couldn’t make it up…

Another vote for cloth! :D We did two years exclusively (until our son potty trained) and even took them on holiday with us.

A bit of gentle shaking would do nothing for my toddler DDs nappies, certainly wouldn't drop any poo down the toilet. It's like sludge, it's not a solid little suasage/ball.

If it's solid the baby/toddler must be very constipated.

Aren't maggots the result of flies?
I had maggots in my bin and put one of those magnetic nets up at the back door to stop flies and problem solved.