Dealing with poo (nice!)

[cairnterrier]

Bit of advice please. We're using Bumgenius V3 during the day and getting on really well with them. Now that DS is 13 weeks and is no longer pooing with every feed, the ahem, quantity in his morning nappies is getting larger.

We've previously tried flushable liners but really didn't get on well with them as DS got terrible nappy rash as they just caused the poo to stick to his skin rather than the nappy.

Until now, we've just been sticking the nappies straight in the washing machine as there hasn't been too much solid debris! When will we need to change this? He's EBF so things are definitely on the runny side. Do we need to use flushable liners or scrape off the solids? Can we wait until he's weaned and presumably things will harden up a bit?

Any hints/tips. Oh and thanks for all those people who haven't been grossed out and have read this post until the end

if there is a lot i used to either use some toilet paper to scrape it into the toilet, or wash it in the sink (followed by a nice antibac spray round the sink!)

once they wean it should become firmer and easier to tip into the toilet

while ebf just chuck straight in wash

by 18m they are usually solid enough to drop straight off nappy into loo

but 9-18m can be nasty - I scraped with a wodge of loo roll and used a cycle with a pre-wash

Into the wash with a prewash / rinse only cycle before wash if you want.

HI all, thanks for the replies. Don't really want to do a prewash/rinse unless have to but equally as we're in a rented house, don't want to block the washing machine up w baby poo! :-) Guess we'll go on as we're doing for the time being. Thanks for the reassurance xxx

Which paper liners were you using? I've discovered this week that they are not all made equal!

We were using Lollipop ones and Imse Vimse (sp?) ones and they are quite stiff and unforgiving but discovered that the OneLife flushable, biodegradable liners are much mush softer so I'm going to give them a go, might be kinder on small bums?

How about fleece liners - they can then be shaken into loo rather than the nappies. Softer paper liners are onelife and bummis - avoid little lamb and junior joy as they are a bit crunchy!

You can buy them quite cheaply or make your own.

I just posted this on another thread:

I have never used liners with my BG.

When DS was tiny and milk fed I just stuck the whole nappy in the nappy bucket and washed when that was ful. As his poo has got progressively less runny (he's 21 months now)I get as much off as possible (I have a plastic scraper thing - one that came with a packet of depilation cream!) and then stick it all in the bucket.

Sounds hideous and it was something I didn't think I would be able to stomach when I was considering these things before DS arrived, however, it's actually fine.

Also, I wasn't sure what would happen to the poo - would I find lumps of it in the washing machine? Would everything smell of it? But aside from the occasions where whole raisins have got through, you wouldn't know.

I actually have more issues with getting the intense wee smell out than I do the poos!