What is your setup like? Logistics please!

[earthymama2be]

Hi! We've been cloth diapering our son ( who is now 6months) since six weeks. Now that he is getting more mobile I'm trying to figure out what to do with him while I go to wash my hands and scrape pooh off in the bathroom. I change diapers in the basement (finished, but still a few valves etc sticking out of walls in laundry room) so that I don't constantly have to carry diaper laundry up and down. Do you put baby in playpen, or are you just that well baby proofed? Also, do you have two diaper pails- one for just pee diapers and one in bathroom for poo? Just trying to get the logistics figured out. Ryan is totally getting into everything these days! This morning he pulled the threshold off the kitchen floor! What's a mama to do lol. I can't imagine how people do this with more than one baby

[Perdita_in_Ontario]

We change DS in our bedroom (we co-sleep). We have a change pad on a dresser at the end of the bed. I change him, then pick him up with one arm, the diaper in the other, carry him into the bathroom and plop him on the floor while I deal with the diaper. We do part-time EC, so actually most poops are in the toilet, and if we miss a poop, I generally change him right in the bathroom on the floor so the odour doesn't contaminate our sleeping space!

Of course when I plop him on the floor he doesn't usually STAY there, so I have to be quick!

[CookAMH]

At that age, when we couldn't leave him on the changing table any longer (we were able to that for a good while), I get him all changed and done then take care of the diaper. If the diaper was poopy, I'd set it on top of the diaper pail then put the clean one on, and redress him. I'd set him down or put him in his crib with some toys while I dumped the poop in the toilet and returned to put the soiled diaper in the pail. Go back, wash my hands and get DS. Usually he'd just follow me or find something to do, and this took place in his bedroom in our ranch style house where anywhere on the main floor was fine for him to go. If he fussed to be picked up, I'd just go quickly knowing it had to get done and he'd survive just fine.

[Magali]

We don't have a change table, I just change my dd wherever, couch, bed, floor.  I set the diaper aside, finish changing her then deal with the diaper later, or if she happens to be in a safe spot I'll go deal with the diaper right then and wash my hands after.  I only use 1 pail for dirty dipes.  Sometimes I'll just throw a poopy diaper right in the toilet and get to it when I can.  I have some highly environmentally unfriendly one use vinyl gloves I put on to fish diaper out of the toilet.  My dd is exclusively breastfed so her diaper don't require such treatment, but my 3 year old ds refuses to poop in the toilet so I have some nasty diapers to deal with.

[cristeen]

I dont have a changing table either. He typically gets changed on the couch or his bed. I have supplies in both locations, dipes are next to the bed, or often still in the laundry basket on the couch. I do have 2 pails, since the bathroom is 4 rooms away, on the other side of a gate, i dont like to tote dipes back and forth. I have a pail for wet in the DR and a smaller pail for dirty in the bathroom. Because of the gates, there is a limited amount of trouble he can get into while i'm dealing w the diapers. I just set him loose. Even if i take the gate down though, theres only so much he can do, we've fairly well baby-proofed (meaning theres nit much that can hurt him and i won't be too chuffed if he destroys something).

ETA - oh, and i tend to only clean the poopies once a day. Until then they sit on the back of the toilet.