Dealing with pooey nappies - need your help!

[Shivs1974]

My dd has just started on solids and the poos are changing! She's been v happy in her Fluffles with a M/E wrap, using the old style Tots Bots for night time. We had been dry pailing and using the a rinse cycle before putting them on to be washed. Just done the rinse and noticed bits of poo in the washing machine - nice!! Sorry if this is TMI....so I just wandered what everyone else did....? Should we use a paper liner (is it uncomfortable for them) or rinse using the flush of the loo? Or are there any other ideas that are tried & tested which won't gross me out too much!!

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rinse using the loo flush. you may have to do it twice if v gooey.

do you empty the poo into the toilet? there shouldn't be any poo on the nappy when you put them in the machine.
i shake what i can into the toilet (using a bit of loo roll to help it along if necessary!)
i HATE rinsing them in the loo because it never really works... so if there is lots of stuck on stuff i do it in the shower! lol

bidets are v handy too.

Blimey - what a quick response! With the fluffles the fleece liner is attached to the nappy - so when I tried rinsing it under the flush, the whole nappy got soaked.
We have got some paper liners - would these be easiest or should we add a normal fleece liner on top of the Fluffles fleecey liner?
If you do rinse in the loo, do you them store them in your nappy bin a bit wet? sorry to be asking so many daft questions - as this is my first child and none of my friends are using cloth I can't ask them and don't really know what to do for the best.....

when i had ones with built in liners i used to rinse in the shower!
i always soak my nappies anyway so it isn't a problem.

I hold nappies in the flush to remove poop, it can take a couple flushes, but I tend to just leave the nappy in the loo to soak - guests don't like this much .
I wouldn't worry about getting the nappy wet as it's going to get wet in the washing machine anyway.
Sometimes, if there are loads of poopy, dunked nappies in the bucket, there can be a puddle at the bottom of the bucket, so I dump the nappy mesh over the bathplug for half an hour then back in the bucket and through to the washing machine.
At the moment we are back to regular two hourly changes due to nappy rash, so there are loads of wet nappies, which soak up any of the drips from the dunked nappies.

Funny, I was going to start a thread similar to this as the detailed specifics of handling pooey nappies was one of the things keeping me from trying cloth (we tried for a few days a couple of months ago, and I hope to start one of the eco-babe trials at some point...).

To be a ponsey (but honest) bloke, I found the holding shitty nappy in toilet for the flush experience rather unsatisfying. Not everything would come off, all the nappy got semi-pooey soaked, hands get backsplash, and then I found the wringing (for the trip to the nappy bin) to be a bit of a mental yuck yuck yuck tbh.

Perhaps after a few goes I'd get used to it, and I appreciate that disposable liners would make it much easier, but as someone else posted, the poo inevitably does find its way onto other bits of the nappy. I recognise that having the nappy bin next to the bog would also be sensible.

I once saw a site / link to an America gadget you put in the bog which holds the nappies but offers lovely clean handling / flushing LOL... it looked somewhat mad but maybe that is what ponsey blokes need, LOL ?

Specifics / startegies / feedback / ideas / comments etc. welcomed.

hub, I must be married to a very strange bloke... he used to delight in getting a pooey nappy in both hands, dunking it in the loo and giving it a good scrub before flushing to get the bits off! I was a bit like maisimog and would flush a couple of times to get the worst off, sometimes leaving the nappy on the slope of the pan in between flushes.

Glad that bit of my life is over now

blimey tissy, did you seek counselling for this strange behaviour, lol ?

We've decided that we'll go with the disposable liners. I don't mind little bits of poo on the rest of the nappy but I don't think I can cope with the whole flushing thing - hats off to all of you who can!!!
Also I don't think the childminder will want to get up & close and overly personal with dd's poo as well....

Tissy, LOL!
I love it! Couldn't do it myself, but good for him!!!
Hub, I have a huuuge nappy bin with a lid that lifts off completely, I only hold the very edge of the nappy and whilst holding the big nappy bin lid upside down over the bog, place wet nappy on, then dump it into the bin.
It is a pain, all that flushing.
Keep promising myself one of those handheld bidets. Host of uses, mind you, as they tap onto the water feed into the cystern, they must be cold water only!
I think you are actually supposed to empty faeces from disps into the loo though, aren't you?
I might try some paper liners occasionally - forgot they existed.

no one (except childminders with clinical waste collections) does this IME though.

oops, I mean doesn't do this.

I find with more solid poo (sort of "splat poo" - rarely if ever does DS produce a really solid one) stretching the fleece length ways and then folding nappy inside out before dunking works a treat. That way you loosen it abit before getting everything wet.

Tho if abit gets on the nappy edge, I let the washing machine cope with that (I haven't noticed anything nasty floating around in it yet)

When I have a poo napy I take the nappy bin lid with me to the loo. I then fold the nappy so that it covers my hands and use the flush to flush the poo off (sometimes use paper liners if it's a known poo time!)

Then I just put the wet nappy on the lid so I don't have to wring it and tip it in the bucket. That way I touch it as little as possible.

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My dd2's nappies are pretty easy to clean - as she is now on solids the poos seem to be more contained. I simply hold the edge of the fleece liner and flick the poo into the toilet and flush. Then depending on whether any has touched the terry nappy - I either dry pail and wash later or wet pail and then wash with the others. Use lavendar oil on some reusable wipes for the dry pail and napisan for the wet soak.

Having said that we have a downstairs laundry and do not need to think about where the nappy bucket is going to be inside.

I've seen those spray heads, eidsvold. They would be v. v. useful for anyone using cloth.... but actually, the thing I once saw was some MAD American contraption which held about 4 - 6 nappies IIRC, and sat in the toilet bowl and could be turned / flushed etc. etc. and then also this gadget could squeeze the excess water out.

It was truly MAD, LOL.

I use disposable liners, now ds is 7 months his poo has firmed up loads - tend to put the liner toward the back of the nappy so it over hangs - very rarely gets onto the cloth. But if it does badly I keep some of the kandoo flushable wipes by the loo (for dd who's potty training - another thread!!)and use these to wipe any really nasty bits off.

Never found any lumps in the washing machine - grim!

The diposable go throught the wash really well BTW

I use paper liners and flush them away, makes them much easier to deal with when you are out and about to, never found tey irritated DS at all. New boots ones are much softer than the others I have used though so think I will stick to them now