Reusable nappies - can't get my head round this

[Lottle]

Please talk to me like I'm an idiot!

I'm looking into cloth nappies for DC2.
I see a lot about "flush the poo down the toilet" before putting in the nappy bin /washing. However as I recall babies don't do easily flushable poos for ages. It's all mushy. So how do i get the poo into the toilet? A jug to swish it down maybe? Or do I put the nappy straight into the nappy bowl and try to rinse it off in there??

Then I'd have a dripping wet nappy hanging round? I would like to make this work but can't get my head round it - help!

Before weaning the baby poos are water soluble so you don't have to worry about scraping etc. if you're talking about poonamis later on, you just do the best you can!

Use a liner and flick down the toilet or hold under the flush to rinse off the worst of it.

Most people use biodegradable nappy liners that flush down the loo, so you can easily remove the poo!

Pre weaning there is nothing to flick off as their poo is liquid. I used to just do a cold rinse of the nappies in the washing machine before putting 5hem through a wash cycle. Later on I used washable fleece liners. I used to just hold them over the toilet by both ends with the middle hanging down and the poo would just peel off and plop into the toilet.

*flick the poo off the liner, not flicking the whole thing away obviously!

Hold the nappy by a corner, dangling in the water. Flush, holding tight. The water flow washes anything left on the nappy away.

Fleece liners make it even easier- you can sort of pull and stretch at it to release it as well.

you have liners in the nappy - either disposable ones that come on a roll or reusable ones made of kind of fleecy fabric. They tend to catch a fair bit of poo, though not all. When the poos are solid you can flick the down the toilet. When they are mushy, you can try and scrape off with toilet paper as best you can. The same as any poo that goes on the nappy itself. Weirdly, although the reusable liners feel more gross, the poo often comes off them a bit easier. with really sticky poos I have been know to hold them dipped in the toilet and use the flush to try and help dislodge the poo...

all of the biodegradable nappy liners I have come across are not suitable for flushing unfortunately- though if anyone has seen ones that can be that would obviously be ideal

I used old rags (cut up worn out old clothes) as liners;
wet only = wash & reuse
soiled = wrap & bin

We’re using the shattaf to rinse the nappy, but as she isn’t near weaning her poo is just liquid, then it goes in a bucket next to the toilet until I was them. We’re only on day eight of nappies and its okay so far, the only thing I would advise is the drying times given by manufacturers are very conservative.

Thanks so much everyone. All very helpful. I'm sure I'll have more questions soon!

Pre weaning I just put it all in the washing machine. 1hr 60° wash with half detergent every 2 days for prewash, then 2hr 40° full detergent every 4 days for main wash.

Post weaning I use fleece liners. Occasionally the poo will just plop off the liner, more often I need to hold the liner in the flush and shake it about to get most of it off. Occasionally poo goes all over the nappy as well as the liner, in which case I swoosh the liner in the flush and just wipe off what I can from the nappy with loo roll.

There's no need to remove every bit of poo from the nappy/liner before washing as long as you run two washes (I call them prewash and main wash, though neither are prewash settings, they both normal cycles). The first washes out the majority of the wee and poo, and the second actually cleans the nappies.

I thoroughly recommend The Nappy Lady's Facebook group for tonnes of free really experienced cloth nappy help and advice. It also seems to be populated by really lovely people which is nice.

But yes, first 6 months just bunged it in the wash, after that I used fleece liners and held them under the flush.

It’s the same way you do it with disposable nappies. So not really when it’s liquid and easy with a bit of a roll and flick when it’s solid.

You can just scrape with a poo spatula dedicated to the function. Kept with the loo brush!

@PiesNotGuys what do you mean the same as with disposables? You just wrap it up and bin it surely?

To the OP if it was particularly bad I was lucky enough to have a shower head close enough to the loo to hose it down.
After weaning, like the others have said it’s in the liner which you can flush or tip into the loo depending on if it’s washable or biodegradable.

I mean that you shake poo into the toilet.

When you empty a potty do you empty it into a bin?

It’s human waste, it’s not supposed to be put in a bin/landfill, it’s supposed to go through the sewerage system.

Bins full of poo will stink, attract flies and in our house, our dogs.

It should really go in the toilet regardless of what it is deposited into initially.

I know it difficult when you change babies away from a toilet but you’ll be walking around with dirty nappies in your bag regardless so have to deal with it some way.

No @PiesNotGuys I’ve never come across anyone shaking pop from a disposable nappy into the toilet and I know a lot of parents!
Bins stink anyway, mine does as it’s full of dog shit and rotting food.

Shake it in the toilet if its solid enough or if not flush the toilet and run the water over it enough. I used flushable liners or ones that where bio degradable also this nearly always caught most of the poo. After I got most of it off in the loo, i give it a quick rinse so it was only poo stained when it got put it straight in the net lined nappy bin (which was a dry bin)