CDs and "solids" poop...how do you deal?

[Megamus]

We recently started Xander on regular solids, and today he had his first major poop. And MAN, was it foul! It's too gooey to flick off into the toilet, but it's a lot more solid than EBF poop. How do you deal with this? Do you use diaper liners? Do you have a sprayer? Do you dunk them in the toilet? There was just so much of it and it was so sticky! UGH!!!!!!!!

(for the record, we mostly use Motherease one-sizes -sometimes with doublers, sometimes without)

[chely7425]

We have a diaper sprayer... I would never be able to CD without, I am way grossed out by DS's solids poo!!

[Llyra]

I just toss it in the wash, if it's too smooshy to roll into the toilet. I had three in diapers for awhile, and no time or energy to worry about rinsing or spraying diapers. And my DD2 pooped mush until she was completely weaned. The worse that can happen is you wind up with some very clean bits of veggie skin in the washer, that you can use a paper towel to wipe out. And almost always the washer gets it all out.

[jtbuko]

For the first few months of cloth diapering solids I used liners. Then I used an extra toilet brush that I kept in a pretty empty planter next to the toilet to scrape/ dunk as needed. There is a product on the market called a diaper duck (?) that does the same thing. In retrospect I think a big plastic serving spoon would have done the job.

[Nillarilla]

flushable liners. Whatever misses the liner goes in the wash.

[Michigan Mama]

We have used both flushable and fleece liners - just fleece right now. Poop just kinda flakes off the fleece, then i throw it in the pail. We don't use a sprayer, but lots of people love them!

[astrophe27]

You can cut up microfleece into rectangles to serve as liners. They "plop" into the toilet easier than the prefold.

For the really gross ones? I'd just take it in the far corner yard and clip it to board and spray it down with the garden hose on the "jet" setting of the nozzle. Then let it dry on the board in the sun to start fading down the stain and just put it in the wash.

I had tried a toilet sprayer in the bathroom but it was a PITA. Way easier to do it outdoors.

A.

[momma-molly]

I dunk. And yes, it's totally disgusting. I'd find a different system, but DD only poops about once a day, so it's manageable. If I'm lucky, it will be solid enough to just roll off the diaper into the toilet. The trouble is, if it's to rolly, it's possible that it could roll out before I get it to the bathroom. But that's TOTALLY never happened to me before.

Sorry, that was way too much information.

[eastkygal]

I am all for a diaper sprayer. I didn't have one with DD1 and eventually didn't do cloth anymore at around 2 years old. I got one this time and it is a dream. No more feeling like I am playing in poop and having to clean my whole sink and toilet area every time DD poops. : I hated dunking. It is great for spraying out the potty for potty learning too, and you'll find it useful for a lot of things. I've gotten my money's worth. They carry them for around $39 on www.everythingbirth.com

[emmaegbert]

I loved the Imse Vimse flushable diaper liners. If its pee you can just throw in the pail and wash and reuse many times (way more than they say), if its poop, plop it in the toilet and thats all there is to it. I never messed around with dunking, spraying, etc. I think I only ended up using two packs of them w/ my son from 6m until he stopped pooping in diapers (18m), because they can be reused so many times.

I used the "toddler" size (not the little size). They shrink when washed.

[new_mom_sd]

I used diaper sprayer. First shake whatever I could in the toilet and then used sprayer in the sink.
Key for me to continue cloth diapering was to deal with it right away. I can't deal with the diapers if they are left without rinsing (I rinsed even the pee only onse but was a must for poopy diaper). Periods where it was messy or 5-6 times a day I used disposable liner. But we also practiced EC from begining and probably got lucky that she started signing for poop around 1 yr of age and hardly had poopy accidents (pee is another story).