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What is the WORST cleaning job that having kids measns?

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Crunchie · 31/03/2002 20:21

I have just had to do my least favourite job, cleaning the bath after the baby has pooed in it It has to tbe the worst job ever. Actually I think the worst one of all thime was having two kids in the bath and one let loose with a bout of diareoah Yuk. Grabbing both kids into towels, emptying and bleaching the bath, refilling it, adding kids, washing two manky towels, bleaching assorted bath toys and getting them in bed

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wmf · 08/08/2002 20:44

(I'm going to embarras myself horribly) Mabs, what does it taste like?

PamT · 08/08/2002 21:01

wmf, yucky, yucky, yuck! how can you even think it? I can't imagine the taste, the smell is bad enough! DD has done 3 poos today and the smell seems to come through the babywipes and I'm sure its still lingering on my fingers - I feel like sticking my hands in a bowl of bleach.

Dreamer · 08/08/2002 21:09

I'm a Governor of a nursery school and last year we were having an open session for children who would be coming to school in the following year. This was to take place at 4pm. At 3pm one of the current children did a poo in the ball pool and we had the lovely job of washing a drying 1000 balls in an hour.

Had it been one of my own children, I could have coped...someone else's poo...bllaagh!!!

Willow2 · 08/08/2002 22:38

wmf - I'm no expert, but I'd hazard a guess that it tastes like sxxt.

Chinchilla · 08/08/2002 22:56

Emsiewill - hee hee!

My ds had projectile poos when solely breastfed. We ended up putting down a computer chair mat that protects your carpet from chair wheel marks. It did the trick for our wool mix oatmeal coloured carpet (why do we all do this, surely mustard is the ideal carpet colour choice???). Unfortunately it couldn't protect the walls or me!

Solids do make a difference thankfully. Not sure whether I prefer the liquid, non-smelly poos, or the solid STINKFESTS that I now endure! Especially nice are the still whole raisins that I find in his nappy...mmmm!

Scuba · 08/08/2002 23:00

Has toilet humour returned on the net if not the telly?

SueDonim · 09/08/2002 08:39

Toilet humour never went away as far as my 27yr old DS and his wife are concerned, Scuba!!

wmf · 10/08/2002 15:44

PamT - I'm just a very curious person, but not curious enough to discover certain things for myself! I have a bit of a problem with babywipes - after nearly two years of cleaning up poo, the smell of Pampers babywipes = the smell of poo, so I can't bear to use them any more for general clean-ups!

jodee · 10/08/2002 21:27

Does anyone else have this problem - I can deal with anything ds throws at me, from either end!, but when it comes to something simple like wiping the snotty nose of someone else's kid, it makes me almost physically sick!

IDismyname · 10/08/2002 22:24

Ds (aged 4) came back from Kidscamp yesterday, with a funny smell lingering around him. Could not work it out...
Come bathtime, ds pulls down pants to do a wee, and out pops half of his poo that got left behind because he didn't wipe his bottom. Trouble is, it'd dried out in pants, so was scattered in tiny fragments all over bathroom floor.
Then made big mistake in not wiping bottom before getting him in the bath, so more bits floating about. So... plug pulled and bath washed out before a re run of whole caboosh.

How do you teach child to wipe bottom? I keep trying and failing. Big school starting soon, and fear that we'll loose more pants into the bin!

Snugs · 10/08/2002 22:41

fms - I have exactly the same problem with my 4 yr old ds. The only thing I have found that helps is that he does a much better job with a baby wipe than with toilet paper so I keep a tub handy in the loo. Not ideal as they aren't strictly flushable - but Pampers now apparently make wipes called 'Kandoos' which ARE flushable and are aimed at kids this age. Probably overpriced but I might look out for them if they help get the job done.

Azzie · 11/08/2002 07:39

My 4yo ds is learning, but his skill level at bottom wiping is still very variable. I'm trying to teach him to look at the toilet paper and see if it is clean after a wipe, but although he manages this he doesn't seem to realise when he's wiped it up onto the outside of his bum . we'll get there one day.

Dd (2) is worse - she takes herself off for a poo in the toilet at nursery, but doesn't get one of the staff to wipe her bottom, so comes home with very yucky knickers some days.

All part of the joys of motherhood...

Paula1 · 11/08/2002 19:21

I'm struggling with this one too, my DS (4yo) doesn't seem to get the hang of it at all, I don't actually think that his arms are long enough to do it properly!!

SoupDragon · 11/08/2002 19:32

Problems here too! DS1 is 3 1/2 and comes home with dirty pants from nursery. Andrex apparently do moist toilet tissue that's flushable - might be cheaper than Pampers wipes?

PamT · 19/09/2002 16:20

Sorry to drag this one up again ladies, but I had to share it with you! DD has just had pooey pants and even though I used Huggies thick babywipes my fingers still smell disgusting despite a thorough scrub with the nail brush. Yucky!!!

Right I'm off to make tea now......
Don't you just love being a mummy?

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