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Fleece Liners and BF Poo - how do you get the poo off?

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beartime · 22/01/2006 06:14

It doesn't seem to come out by holding them in a flushing toilet, so the only way I've managed to clean the poo off so far has been to actually rub them together in water but it grosses me out, yuck! Also its a pain everytime - can I save them up for a week and do it, or soak them or something?

Can anyone tell me what they do?

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naturemum · 22/01/2006 18:38

Hi beartime!

I just put my soiled fleece liners in the wash (60 degrees) with nappies. They come out clean.

Sometimes I dry pail, sometimes soak in nappy soak by doesn't seem to make a difference either way.

DS is totally breastfeed (3 months old)

Not sure if 'technically' the liners should be flushed clean down the toilet before putting in the washing machine but like you say it is very difficult to rinse BF poo off!

Dozeynoo · 22/01/2006 22:58

Depending on the quantity of poo on the liner I usually scrape the worst off with loo roll and flush it down the toilet and then stick it in the nappy bucket (dry pail) with the nappies until the whole lot goes through the washing machine on a 60 degree wash.

The only time there was a smell problem was when I forgot to put in the nappy san on the machine cycle.

starlover · 22/01/2006 22:59

i wash them under the tap

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mcmudda · 22/01/2006 23:03

I just threw them in the machine. Rinse cycle then wash normally - came out fine. It all ends up in the septic tank anyway

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beartime · 23/01/2006 04:50

Oh cool! I did wash them at first but then went to Grandma's and she was on about how you had to rinse them out first, so i started doing that, but I would enjoy it soooo much more just shoving them in the washing machine! I guess you can do that till it starts getting solid when they're weaned then, right?

Do you have to put nappy san in washcycle? And pre-rinse? Or can you just use washing powder?

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starlover · 23/01/2006 16:16

i don't use napisan or rinse in the washing machine!
just bung them in with a little bit of powder and that's it.
sometimes do an extra rinse at the end if they've been sat around for too long! lol

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beartime · 23/01/2006 17:58

in The U.S. the washing powder doesn't even start to get stains out, so I've had to put bleach in - d'you think that's OK for the baby's skin etc.?

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TicTacsMum · 24/01/2006 22:07

No need to bleach if you can hang them outside. My muslins were horribly stained but the sunlight totally bleached them. Amazing!

Laura032004 · 25/01/2006 08:12

I don't use napisan either - just rinse (including scraping any poo off liners, but ds is 22m now), then dry pail. I do a wash every third day - 60 degrees (although I know 40 would be fine), and an extra rinse (to ensure no powder left in nappies). I use non-bio powder, and vinegar rather than fab cond.

throckenholt · 25/01/2006 08:16

just stick them in the machine, no napisan etc - any stains left after washing will fade in teh sunlight - just hang them up somewhere (that is one of the better things about breastfed poo )

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beartime · 26/01/2006 05:15

wow that looks fun. Thanks for the help. unfortunately everyone tumble dries here tho so even though they have the best weather for it, there are no clothes lines outside! So I've stuck some bleach in with them. Maybe I'll do a second rinse to make sure it doesn't irritate his skin. Cos the last batch i did like that seemed to make his bottom redder. I'm jst drypailing them and bunging them in the machine now which is heaps better.

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eldestgirl · 26/01/2006 05:34

Can you not get a stand alone dryer to hang them on? I don't know if you have any outside space with access to sunlight.
It's really depressing that everyone tumble dries. It reduces the life of the nappy and also, is so wasteful of energy when the sun will dry things for you...

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beartime · 28/01/2006 21:52

I don't think they have any - just a line in their garage. Oh well, be home in 2 wks anyway

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cornflakegirl · 30/01/2006 09:55

Slight off-topic - but just wanted to give a warning about when you start on solids - we found for the first week that the poo was just as sticky, and nearly as spread out as breastfed poo - but now it had bits of veg in it - we tried just sticking it in the machine, but there would still be little green bits left stuck on the nappies when they came out the wash - ick! Fortunately they turned into proper poos quite quickly

1970Jane · 31/01/2006 07:41

I have two of the small 'Earthlets' buckets so that I can lift them down the stairs. I half fill one with water and put a few drops of teatree oil in as it is for pooy nappies and the other is for just wet ones. The teatree helps to keep them a bit cleaner. I use the biodegradeable liners as well as the fleece ones and this does reduce the amount of staining - it's when it spreads to the nappy that it's tedious, but I still do rinse them out sometimes (pretty gross but has to be done!).

sticks · 02/02/2006 12:58

Hi there, new to this but here goes - as fellow real nappy users I was wondering what your opinions were on the best type of liners to use. I used the disposable liners that came with my one life cotton nappies but dd didn't like them much. I am currently using PHP disposable liners which seem better. Are fleece liners any good or is it just too yucky cleaning up solids? Has anyone used silk liners to treat nappy rash? Any opinions on the best disposable liners?

throckenholt · 02/02/2006 13:01

I prefer fleece liners - I have bunch of home made ones (just cut up fleece0 that I no longer need - if you would like some let me know.

I also have a couple of silk ones - I did use them occasionally - but invariably they pooed on them very soon after I put them on so were a bit useless . the only problem is you have to handwash them at low temperature - and in my experience they stain quite badly.

sticks · 02/02/2006 13:06

Thanks for that throckenholt - and your generous offer, I am going to tap my sister for some fleece as I know shes got a stash from her design work - do you get much nappy rash using them?

throckenholt · 02/02/2006 13:14

i think nappy rash is more to do with the child than the nappy to be honest. We did get episodes of nappy rash - but it was just as bad if we switched to disposables 9my kids must just have toxic poo ). So you get ot know your kid and which ones can handle having apooey nappy and which ones need immediate changing.

As for making fleece liners - literally just cut an appropriately sized oblong. Make it bigger than you think you might want - you can always cut them down - and if they are bigger they keep more of the nappy cleaner.

Laura032004 · 02/02/2006 13:18

silk liners - I didn't realise you had to handwash these, so mine were machine washed with the nappies, but still seemed to help ds's nappy rash. We've since realised that he actually had a problem with the fleece liners though - I think they make his bum too hot. We now use cloth liners (made from old sheets).

We bought some disp liners - little green eartlets ones I think? We don't use them though, as I don't like to think of routinely throwing something away when I don't need to, and they worked out fairly expensive - 3p each. Not much, but reusable costs nothing!

sticks · 02/02/2006 13:22

I have to admit to nearly giving up on cottons but have been persevering since trying different liners. I did notice that she is more prone to nappy rash when she wears her cottons than when she is wearing disposables but that could have been down to the crabby liners I was using before. Thanks for your help, its nice to hear other peoples experiences

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