Poop question

[leavemealone]

I never thought I'd be asking a question about poop, but here goes: What do you do for older children's poop that isn't "solid"? I am converting to cloth diapers for my two kids (2.5 year old and 6 month old). The baby is easy as he is breastfed. The older one however, doesn't always have formed, solid poops that I can flip into the toilet. What do you do then? Remove as much as you can with toilet paper and flush that? Wash as is? Use a liner each time? Use a sprayer? I don't currently have a sprayer, but if it'll help, I'll get one. Other options?

[SharonAnne]

I have a sprayer, which is okay, but actually makes more of a mess, imo. I just dunk and swish, and then stick it in the diaper pail. We keep the diaper pail in the bathroom, next to the toilet (or in the tub with the curtain drawn if company's coming : ) so I don't drip water all over the place.

If I have stubborn poop that won't come off with just a dunk in teh toilet, I'll submerge the diaper and flush the toilet (While holding on to the diaper! Don't flush your diaper! ) and that usually gets most of it off.

Other mamas have a dedicated poo-scraper spatula that they keep in the bathroom.

Good luck!

[luckygreen713]

[QUOTE=SharonAnne;13846906]

If I have stubborn poop that won't come off with just a dunk in teh toilet, I'll submerge the diaper and flush the toilet (While holding on to the diaper! Don't flush your diaper! ) and that usually gets most of it off.

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What a good idea!!! I'm going to try that!



To the OP, I also have a toddler in diapers who usually has messy poop that sticks to the diaper I don't use a sprayer, I used to, but it made a mess. I just dunk/swish and drop the diaper in the pail. I wash diapers every morning, but to cut down on odor I sprinkle baking soda on the poopy diaper after I drop it in the pail. It works just fine.

[Ifluffedthree]

Originally Posted by ferrum97

Remove as much as you can with toilet paper and flush that? Wash as is? Use a liner each time? ?

I did a little both before wash. I never felt the need for something to spray with. And a spayer was not considered a necessity years ago, and I never knew of it. It just depended on what ended up in the diaper and how much I felt about dealing with it some days. I had two in diapers together -- poop happened! LOL

[Rowansmama]

I actually have a rubber spatula by the toilet for scraping it off. I jsut wash it off after use. If guests come over I (usually!) try to hide it away

[Michigan Mama]

I'm just a dunk and swish kinda gal, and that often works well, but I hate trying to get pasty poop off prefolds, so if I have him in a pf or sometimes with a fitted, I'll put a fleece liner in there. Then I don't have to dip the whole diaper, just the liner, and the poop tends to come off easily. Occasionally we use flushable liners, but the fleece works really well for us.

I don't feel like we need a diaper sprayer.

I also keep a pail right next to one of the toilets so I can just drop it in. If not all the poop comes off, it will in my cold rinse.

[MissE]

I dunk and swish and everything's off to the pail.

[ssj77]

my son also has huge non-solid ones sometimes. Depending on much of a mess there is, I will either use tp to get off what I can or just do a quick dunk and swish and off to diaper pail. I haven't done the diaper sprayer but have visions of my 20 month old trying to spray his older sister with it

The dunk and swish work pretty well for us though.

Sultana

[paintingmom]

I use a dedicated poop spatula. I just can't justify a sprayer or put my hand in the toilet.

I also cut up some cheap fleece and use it as a liner on all my dipes--It usually flips right off--unless it is REALLY not solid--like wow did he only eat blueberries and peas yesterday? poop--then I use the spatula.

[leavemealone]

Thanks! I'll try a few of these methods and see what works best. I didn't really want to get a sprayer and I was looking for something other than that as a solution. Inevitably, he has one of these poops in the first diaper that he wears after I've done diaper laundry so I don't want any more poop to be left on the diaper than necessary.