I have been committed to cloth diapering my DD (8 weeks old) and have invested a lot of time and money in it. We have a stash of prefolds, a few different brands of covers and some fuzzibunz pocket diapers.
I LOVE everything about the cloth diapering system....except the poop thing is starting to wear on me. I know that if you have newborn breastfed poop that's like liquid, you can just toss those dipes into the pail with the pee diapers and they'll clean out in the wash. Or, if you have solids, you can shake those in the toilet and then toss in the pail. But my DD is fed a combo of breastmilk and formula due to some supply isues on my end....I'd say it's about half and half. So her poops are about the consistency of peanut butter. I've tried scraping off into the toilet and because of the consistency, most of it won't come off. I can swish it around in the toilet a few times but that doesn't get most of it off, and I still have to get my hands into it that way. So what I have been doing is swishing in the toilet, then wringing out by hand, then rinsing in the sink, wringing out, and throwing in the pail. It's just....gross, you kwim? I don't want to have to deal with that kind of poop at all. Or at least not several times a day, every day.
This is going to be a deal breaker with me, I'm afraid.
How do any of you other mamas with weak stomachs deal with the "ick factor"? Also, would it be ok for me to throw these poopy diapers into the pail with the pee diapers and then just do an extra soak/rinse or whatever when we wash them? Or would that make everything too dirty?
I don't want to, but I've about reached the point where I'm ready to go and put my stash up on craigslist and just use 'sposies. Any suggestions would be welcome.
I LOVE everything about the cloth diapering system....except the poop thing is starting to wear on me. I know that if you have newborn breastfed poop that's like liquid, you can just toss those dipes into the pail with the pee diapers and they'll clean out in the wash. Or, if you have solids, you can shake those in the toilet and then toss in the pail. But my DD is fed a combo of breastmilk and formula due to some supply isues on my end....I'd say it's about half and half. So her poops are about the consistency of peanut butter. I've tried scraping off into the toilet and because of the consistency, most of it won't come off. I can swish it around in the toilet a few times but that doesn't get most of it off, and I still have to get my hands into it that way. So what I have been doing is swishing in the toilet, then wringing out by hand, then rinsing in the sink, wringing out, and throwing in the pail. It's just....gross, you kwim? I don't want to have to deal with that kind of poop at all. Or at least not several times a day, every day.
This is going to be a deal breaker with me, I'm afraid.
How do any of you other mamas with weak stomachs deal with the "ick factor"? Also, would it be ok for me to throw these poopy diapers into the pail with the pee diapers and then just do an extra soak/rinse or whatever when we wash them? Or would that make everything too dirty?
I don't want to, but I've about reached the point where I'm ready to go and put my stash up on craigslist and just use 'sposies.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Then all you have to do is shake the liner off the prefold and into the potty.
