soiled pants etiquette-is this normal?

[ponyprincess]

My son is at nursery full time and though he is toilet trained has the odd accident. Many times when the soiled clothes are left in a bag to take home, they have just been put straight into the bag along with the full contents, sometimes mixed in with other clothing (socks, etc.)-you can imagine the mess by the time it reaches home. Is this normal for staff not to take the time to dump the contents into the toilet/rinse out pants and put in a separate bag? The bags are left on children's coat hooks to take home, which also seems a bit unhygenic. Am I being unreasonable to expect the time to be taken to dump and rinse? Just wondered what happens at other nursery schools, to have a bit of a reality check!

I think they should 'dump & bag'.

I don't think they should be made to rinse and I don't think it's their right to throw the pants away, that's a parents choice.

At school lumps are tipped down the toilet and soiled clothing bagged and put on peg for home time. I'd want to know that they had separate facilities if they were rinsing. At school we would only have the sinks we use for hand-washing.

At my DD's first nursery they just chucked the whole lot away, pants and all!

I think they thought I was odd when I started asking if they could perhaps just do their best in getting rid of the worst of it and then bagging the pants up - I know it's 'only pants' but at a pound a pair on average, I couldn't really afford to lose too many and I think we were up to about 10 chucked pairs before I plucked up the courage to talk to them about it!!!

They implied that it wouldn't be nice for me to deal with (I insisted I really didn't mind!!!) but I think it was just because easier for them to chuck them.

The rinsing can be done by holding the item in the water stream of a flushing loo; so they could rinse with no danger of contaminating sinks or washing machines.

Stafishmumy we do the rinsing under the flusing chain thing too. Yuk!

We have no washing facility at our preschool other than the sink which is used for handwashing so rinsing not really an option for us. Any soiled clothes are bagged in a nappy bag if just pants or a carrier bag if trousers etc and hung on their peg to be taken home for washing or disposal (I know some Mums prefer to just bin soiled pants for example). If there is any obvious lump of poo it is shaken down the loo! I have also heard of nurseries who will not change soiled clothes but will call parents - I think that's a bit odd to be honest! So while I would bag up a wee soaked pair of pants together with tights, trousers or whatever I would definitely separately bag a pair of poo soiled pair of pants and would explain this to the Mum at pick up time.