How do you clean poo off of a reusable nappy

[Wills]

Hi,

I've tried putting a liner in but he manages to spread his muck so to speak , so it always over the nappy. I've tried flushing the toilet over the nappy but it sticks on. End up having to soak which I hate hate hate. If I could master the poohy nappies then i'd be happy to convert 100% to reusables.

dry pail, comes off in wash. pre-wash if your machine has it

I give it a good wipe with toilet paper to get rid of thesolid bits and just shove the nappy in the bucket. Washes out.

It's not pleasant

lol soupy..... forgot to add the bucket needs to have a tight lid

I read this title and thought "with a washing machine".

Same here. Shake over toilet. Throw nappy in bucket. Fit lid on firmly. Throw the lot in the machine later.

Wills, how old is your dc? If s/he is only a few months old I've found it does get 'better', well easier, when they go onto solids when it usually 'peels' off and stays more solid in the liner! (Gosh, I really didn't think I'd ever end up posting something like this!)

Pigeon - I think its "become a mother find pooh discussion interesting!!!".

So basically you do all put dirty ones in the washing machine. Will give it a try. GREAT!

I jet blast it with the shower head (in the bath) to get the worst off. Or rinse it under the tap and rub, but sometimes that can lead to stench transference, which is to be avoided.

OOOhhh hadn't thought of the shower head - good idea!

Oh, and get a mesh bag thingy for your bucket. Then you just lift the whole caboodle out without having to touch the nappies again.

if you stretch the liner over the pan, then you can generally get a lot off that way. Then stick your marigolds on and get the rest off with toilet roll ( i keep a pair just for this next to the loo but more often than not I don't need them). If it's a right mess, then the shower head over the bath is good for blasting it off. then roll the whole thing up tightly and dry pail it til you're ready to do a wash.

I agree! Have to say that since dd went on the bottle and now only does 1 atomic nappy a day the wraps survive much better and the liners actually seem to work! Have to say that mine seem to come clean no prob in machine tho do agree with the marigold for popping in washing machine! I know some people hate it but napisan works for me every time.

Have you tried fleece liners? The more solid pooh peels off with a dip in the loo and a shake, whilst the runnier kind can be rinsed off in the loo and then soaked for a bit. I used paper liners with first three but only discovered fleece with ds4 - IMO they work well.

hmmm - ok I'll keep perservering with those ideas - many thanks.

Soupy - where do you get the net liners?

you can get net bags from the bambino mio website

ebay do cheap net bags, there's also a thing called a mini shower or little squirt if you want to push the boat out, which attachs to your toilet inpipe and squirt off poo (they are big in the States and Aus apparently)

My net bag came from Tchibo. It was a set of 2 so I have one in the bucket for pooey nappies and the little one outside it for just wet ones - I put Just Wet nappies in with the ordinary white wash if I don't have a full nappy wash.

Wills, your baby is the same sort of age as ds2 I think (4.5 months) - I've found that using flushable liners gets rid of most of it, and then the rest just comes off in the washing machine. Does your have a soak function? You could use that if it's really bad.

I'm using a bag here to keep the dirty nappies in - then the whole lot goes in the washing machine, and there's no smelly bucket!

Btw, although ds2 is still fully breastfed, with breast fed poos(!), we've only had one leak since we started using reusables, and that was when I put a disposable on him after swimming. The others don't leak at all!!!

I've started using compostable/flushable liners in BabyDragon's nappies and what a revelation. SO much better than scraping the poo off. I do have to compost them too as I daren't flush them because of drain trouble in the past.

Toilet then prewash here

Soupy I LOVE the idea of a babydragon. Love to say I have one too but, bless him, he's coming out of that awful colic phase and is incredibly smiley and coo's at anyone who looks at him more than 2 milliseconds!

Still love the name babydragon.

Hi there At 4.5 months we rinsed everything in the bidet (installed in house when we moved in and not changed bathroom yet) When they start eating eventually it gets much easier...human poo as my dh calls it.

We just rinse (throw nappy in bath, blast with showerhead) then pail with water & drop of tea tree. Bucket stands in bath then is emptied of an evening & contents chucked in washing machine along with as much 'robust' (ie. kids' t-shirts, babygros, household linen, dh's pants...) as is to hand to make up a 60 wash.

Can't be doing with drypailing - you NEED a lid & then lifting it is an ordeal. Rinsed & soaked with tea tree oil, not nearly as grim.

Liners are a bit pointless IMO - if it's runny, it escapes the liner. If it's 'chunky', it shakes off towelling anyway...