Fed up with scapping poo off nappies, please remind me why I use washables...

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...honestly, I don't think DD has had a flick the poo into the loo poo for months. I now use disposable liners (although it seems a shame to put paper in a lovely fleece nappy) but her poos is soo runny the liner makes little difference. I have forever got my rubber gloved hands down the loo scraping off poo an it isn't funny any more.

Can anyone help, and if they can't help, please remind me why I use washables because I am swiftly falling out of love (DD is a year by the way and we have used them since she was 3 months).

Thanks

I am LITERALLY laughing out loud Daisymoo!!! I am sure DS has done that, he's 13 months and has just learnt how to open the washing machine door, take out all the clothes and post them through the catflap.

Sigh...

I didn't get on with paper liners at all, so if the poo doesn't ping off the fleece liner, I hold the it down the loo and flush...after that it goes in the wash as is!

I always wash nappies at 60. Sometimes I will machine rinse first if there are seriously pooey nappies - I have had no filter blockages (yet) and my nappies are always clean and stain free

I'm not sure that all machines have filters...well I never found one on my old washer/dryer which is probably why it broke, having now seen how many coins and keys etc that end up in our new washing machine, and the mountains of fluff that comes out of the tumble drier filter.

Psychobabble, my current machine (and the last one I think, though memory is a bit hazy) has a sort of round, unscrewable bit about the size of a beermat on the bottom right hand corner.

You unscrew and unscrew and eventually a bit of water comes out along with the filter and some gunk equivalent to what you find in the bathroom plughole.

I am a nappy slut and only wash at 40!

Thanks for the tips re: paper liners. I need to get some more and have tried the kitchen paper ones which I simply loathed.

I'm glad it's not just me! Where are those children whose poo "falls" off a fleece? Not mine, have I been feeding them glue?

I use cheapest paper liners I can find (Peachy Cheeks ebay shop) over a fleece liner too, not much gets past both. The liners on their own catch solids but a stain goes right through, hence the fleece liner too. When it works you can throw the paper/poo down the loo, and stained fleece + unstained wet nappy in the bucket.

I was very gung-ho about the washing machine but it's rather old and hubby complained that nappies were coming out with bits on! Poor thing, he washed them all again rather than just give them a good shake and hang on the line.

I don't know viticella - I envy those people whose babies do flickable poos. DD is one and rarely has one. I do a little dance of joy when she does.

I use disposables at the moment (partly for this reason) but I still do try to scrape the poo off as much as I can. I've taken to putting liners in the disposables to make this less yucky.

DaisyMoo - LOLOLOL!!! I'm going to be sniggering about that to myself into the small hours.

We like recycling in this house

dd is 2.2 & ds is 6 months & weaning so altho' still bf his poos are mostly flickable (much easier than dd's actually - I wonder why?). I just shake them over the loo & chuck them in the pail - if it's really horrible the shower is close enough to the loo that I can give it a rinse. I used to wash at 40 but someone said that since I'm doing two babies' nappies I should wash at 60? I'm considering getting another pail & keeping them separate so I can wash them at 40 again - what say you lot? I just got a new microfibre nappy for ds from my friend who's a Lollipop agent & it's gorgeous but it says wash at 40 & I don't want to wreck it. I use Onelife sanitiser & Ecover detergent so do I really need to wash at 60 if I'm doing both their nappies together?

I dunno Greebo but I've always washed at 60 no matter what the label says (that pretty much goes for clothes too!) and the nappies are still going strong. I think manufacturers are very conservative with labels on a "just in case" basis.

40 isn't really very hot, so I can see your friend's logic.

Maybe if you are using a sanitiser though you don't need to worry? I suppose the idea is that 40 isn't necessarily hot enough to kill everything and you might risk passing something like nappy thrush from one to the other.

I wash for two and only wash at 40, had no problems so far but DS2 is only 11 weeks. Sounds a bit daft really cos if their wash thrush or a bacterial/viral infection you would wash even one lot of nappies at a higher temp to stop the baby becoming reinfected

I know Tots Bots changed their labels a while back so that they said 40 degrees for environmental reasons rather than because the nappies couldn't withstand it. I think they changed them back again though after complaints?