Poo without a diaper sprayer

[springbride]

Hi there mamas,
We have recently started letting DD play with solids and it has really effected her poo!
For those of you without a diaper sprayer, what do you do to get the bulk of it off of the diapers before laundering?
Or is a sprayer more of a necessity?

[Katie T]

I have cloth diapered for 3 1/2 yrs and never had a diaper sprayer. I just shake the solid poo into the toilet. I have also by accident found that if you let the diaper sit with the poo in it it will peel off easier. So if it is really yucky I set it in the diaper pail and take care of it before I put the next diaper in. I know people love there sprayers but my friend got one and never found the love for it and never uses it.
I have also read of people who have a poop spatula and keep it in the bathroom and scrape diapers into the toilet.

[Pepper44]

We never used a sprayer. I did two things...first, when I saw DD starting to poop I set her on the little potty. Easier clean up! Otherwise, I always laid a wide strip of fleece in the diaper and the poop didn't really stick to it badly. You can hold the diaper over the toilet and shake the fleece out, or dunk it in the toilet if absolutely needed, then lay the wet fleece back into the diaper and put it all into your wetbag/pail.

[shanniesue2]

DS is 22 months old and I just now got a sprayer. We would dunk ours in the toilet to get the poop off. I REALLY hated it. I'm so about the sprayer I got for Christmas!

[KristyDi]

I started lining my dd's diapers w/ fleece recently (just oval or rectangle shapes I cut from fleece remnants from the fabric store) mainly for ease of poo removal. I find it comes off the fleece easier than the pfs. I've also found letting them sit for a bit (but not too long) makes it easier to peel off. Also if you have to dunk the fleece dosen't absorb water so that makes it slightly less gross.

[jenners26]

I am terribley lazy, (and easily grossed out!) so we use those flushable liners. If there's just pee, I just wash them, and you can use them a couple of times before they're too thin to do any good. And if there's poo, we just dump them in the toilet and flush them away! It's like 7 bucks for 100 of them, and with two toddlers in cloth (and a newborn, but I don't use them with her) it's about the best 7 dollars I've ever spent!

[MamaMelis]

I've never used a sprayer, they gak me out a bit to be honest I just use the wipes that I used on the baby or some toilet paper if needed to encourage the bits that don't just shake off. Like PP's, a diaper that has sat for a few hours is even easier

[Llyra]

I cloth diapered continuously for 5 years, three kids, and never had a sprayer. I never did anything special with poo-- just rolled off whatever could roll, into the toilet, and maybe used a handful of toilet paper or a clean wipe to push some off if I was feeling ambitious, and then dry-pailed. Did a rinse cycle, then a hot wash, and then sniffed. If they needed it, another wash. Never had any trouble to speak of. I did occasionally have to wipe very clean, sanitized bits of food out of the washer sometimes, though. Stuff like the skins from beans, for example. I just sprayed the washer with whatever I'd use to clean up poo that got on the floor or changing table, and wiped it clean. No big deal, and a lot more pleasant, to me, than spraying or dunking filthy diapers.

[Nicole730]

We use a scrub brush, if needed, to scrap the poo off. I think I would love a diaper sprayer though. I like getting as much poo off as possible, so I usually scrap and dunk. DS (20 months) still does not have solid poos. (I'm thinking because of all the kefir he drinks, but I'm not sure)

[funkymamajoy]

I dunk and swish.

My mom also used cloth and there were no sprayers back then, so this is what I'm used to.

[JTA Mom]

I use our detachable shower head. I set it to spray, grab it and go!

Swishing didn't work for me. And ds had the longest period of time with true PB like poop. No rolling there!

Ami

[Alohamelly]

Before I had a sprayer, I used TP to wipe the poop off.

[solinox]

We use the Imse Vimse rice paper liners. I don't bother with the breastfed newborns, but I start using the liners as soon as we start solids. They are flushable, so poo just peels off with the liner and gets flushed. The liners catches most everything, and I don't bother with anything that misses. Wet liners go in the pail and get washed and reused. Currently CD'ing baby #6 and love my system! I never have to touch the poo!

[melissa.sm]

We use Imse Vimse liners. I would skip them if my daughter's (16m/o) poos were consistently "ploppable" (yuck!), but they're often sort of smooshy and would really require a "poop spatula" (lol), so I use the liners to make my life easier.

[mambera]

I mostly just shake the poo off into the toilet. Occasionally use my peri bottle from the hospital as a sprayer.

[leavemealone]

I took the advice of people here and I now have "poop spatulas" in the bathrooms. I also use the wipe to get as much off as possible, then I scrape as much off as I can and don't worry about the rest.

[springbride]

Some great ideas Thanks. I feel much better about this!

[maddymama]

One mom on Diaperswappers use a gallon bug sprayer filled with water as her diaper sprayer. She wrote that as long as it had pressure in it, it worked great. I think you can pick them up for a few bucks and you don't have to worry about messing with your plumbing. I thought it was an ingenious idea....
~maddymama

[mamadelbosque]

We had a diaper sprayer but it broke like a year ago and since then we've just been dunking & swishing. Fairly gross, but it works

[AlwaysByMySide]

Cloth diapered three kids, never used a diaper sprayer. I am also still using diapers on my third that I used with my first. I'm another one that plops out anything solid into the toilet, and the rest always comes out in the wash.