[boingo82]

Rinsing...what do you do if changing table is nowhere near the bathroom?

Well, DS is finally eating enough solids that it's become obvious we NEED to start rinsing. (dried corn in the lint screen was clue #1. Ew.)

The problem is, the changing table is in his room and it's a good 20 feet away from the bathroom.
The bathroom is tiny, no room to change him on the counter or put the table in there.
How am I going to do this? I don't want to haul dripping diapers all through the house?
Anyone else with a tiny house? How did you make this work?

 

[jazzpurr88]

I change Jake in his room on the table, then once he is off and running I go back and get the dirty diaper take it to the bathroom and shake the poop off into the toilet, I also have a plastic knife that I scrap the chunks that won't shake of into the toilet then throw the whole thing into the diaper pail back in his room. No dunking required. Oh I have a basket with a cover I keep the poop knife in and I wrote poop knife on it with a sharpie so nobody mistakes it for a usable knife. I just wipe it off with the cloth wipe I used to cleen up his butt or get a new one out of the family cloth basket. I throw it away after a couple of weeks and get out a new one. So far no stains, no chunks in the lint screen. Everything comes out in the wash.

 

[imgr8ful]

i fold 'em up and carry them carefully to the bathroom...i think some people might have extra prefolds and they wrap up the dirty diaper before and after rinsing. could you put a little pail in the bathroom just for rinsed diapers?

 

[Golden]

I asked this same question awhile back. What do you do with the rinsed diaper?

What I do now that works is bring a prefold with me, rinse the dipe and put it on the floor on the prefold and then carry the whole thing back to the diaper pail in the other room. Works great!
rinsing woes

 

[aniT]

If you are worried about dripping put the diap in an old bowel or pail of some kind to carry it to the bathroom. I have never had a problem with diapers dripping however. I change dd wherever we are at the time and carry poopy diapers from downstairs to the pail which is upstairs. never had a drop.

 

[staceyshoe]

I carry the diaper into the bathroom, rinse, and then throw it in the pail (which I keep right next to the toilet).

 

[mom2orionplus1]

I change on the changing table, roll up the diaper and wipe, bring it to the bathroom, rinse w/shower sprayer, wring it out and then back into the pail it goes.

 

[WhitneyVL]

I just keep a small pail next to the toilet for the rinsed stuff. I don't like to put the dripping wet stuff in the regular diaper pail anyway. I just don't like the thought of putting super wet stuff in with the already stinky stuff to marinate, but I'm weird like that :LOL

 

[boingo82]

OK glad to hear. We have a lot of extra PF that I could use like that.

I am pining for my parents' bathroom with 4' of clear counter space though!

Golden, thanks, your thread was helpful. I am not so excited about this aspect of c/d though. I do realize that *technically* you are supposed to do the same with sposies. Still, though..ICK.

I guess we are due for a minishower too. LOL at the poo knife!

 

[GranolaMoon]

I don't rinse! I have an 18mo who eats nearly as much as his 5yo sister. I'd far rather that dried corn stuff be in the lint catcher than mess with it myself

If it doesn't drop or shake into the toilet, into the pail it goes.

 

[GranolaMoon]

Ooops, our changing table is a room and a hallway away from the bathroom. I just fold the dipe up with the poop tucked inside and set it on the floor (tile) until Moose is changed and on the floor again. Then carry to toilet and open it.

 

[Got_Cloth]

Ih ave 2 pail. a large one in the laundry room for all wet dipes, and a small one in the bathroom that tucks nicely betweent he tiolet and the tub. I use my removable shower head and spray the poop off, then i put it in the pail. I wash those dipes every night with a prewash, and add them to my wet diaper pail.( my girl poops alot LOL) then I wash them all together. It seems to work great for us

NOW.. if i could just get hubby to do it, instead of leaving a poopy dipe ont he back of the toilet waiting for me to get home LOL

 

[slkmile]

When dd was still pooping in the diaper I'd just throw it in the bucket and later on that night rinse it out...one big nasty rinse fest!...then other times I didn't bother and considered the dried food in the vents very clean.

 

[WhitneyVL]

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Originally Posted by Got_Cloth NOW.. if i could just get hubby to do it, instead of leaving a poopy dipe ont he back of the toilet waiting for me to get home LOL

Oh yeah, I have one of those too. He'll leave it on the back of the toilet even if it's plop-able.

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[ZeldasMom]

when the baby is changed i leave the soiled diaper on the changing table folded up til I have a sec to deal with it. it's okay to leave it there a bit. if anything this makes the poo dry a bit and more likely to plop off the dipe into the toilet. poo-poo diapers get dealt with in one of 3 ways at our house:

(1) all poo plops right off into toilet. Woo-hoo! this is the best! Walk back to changing table and throw dipe into wet bag I have clipped to it (MOE hanging diaper pail).

(2) we have to scrape some of the poo off with a scraper (we use a scraper we got at the hardware store--it was 4 drywalling or wallpapering or caulking or some such thing). We wipe the poo off it with a small amount of tp then wash it in the sink. Spray any poo remaining on the dipe with diluted bi-o-kleen bac out. Nice lime scent.

Walk back to changing table and throw dipe into wet bag I have clipped to it.

(3) if the poo is really peanut buttery and there's a lot of it, we minishower. For awhile I used a plastic dustpan to take the dripping wet dipe back to where the other dirty dipes go by the changing table. but then like a pp i got really grossed out by putting dripping wet dipes in with the other dirty dipes. It made the whole thing stink. So now we have a small pail with a lid we got at the hardware store--its either 3.5 gallon or 5 gallon, where we throw the rinsed dipes. we use no liner in this pail. We just have to remember to grab it when we do the other diaper laundry.

 

[Kari_mom]

I separate and rinse out the poopies as I toss diapers in the washer. But I only bother if J has had corn or grapes or some similar chunky food.

 

[USAmma]

I have the pail next to the toilet in our bathroom where the minishower is. I change her in the livingroom, where I keep all the diapers. It's easy to just carry it to the bathroom and spray it and dump it.

 

[tippytoes26]

I asked this same question about a year ago

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What I started to do was take the pail lid with me into the bathroom so that I could lay the soggy diaper on the inside of it after I swished. It worked like a charm.

We got my daughter a potty chair (we like the bjorn one with the removable bowl.. it's the only one out of FIVE potties that we have that she will use and she's three and a half now) when she was about 18 months old. She didn't start using it for almost a year, but I used it to carry soppy dunked diapers back from the bathroom. It always sat in there anyway so for the times I forgot the pail lid, it came in awfully handy.

I didn't like increasing the number of diapers I had to wash when I used a clean prefold to wrap a dirty diaper in after duking. It just made diaper laundry more of a hastle and put more wear on the prefolds. The pail lid method was by far the best because I didn't have a bowl to disinfect afterwards.

Amber

 

[Momto2boysNagirl]

I finish changing then send him/her on their way. Walk the diaper to the bathroom, dump or rinse the poop off and put it in the pail which is right there next to the toilet. If I'm upstairs changing, I just roll up the diaper real good and carry down to the pail.

 

[bdavis337]

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Originally Posted by tippytoes26 I asked this same question about a year ago . What I started to do was take the pail lid with me into the bathroom so that I could lay the soggy diaper on the inside of it after I swished. It worked like a charm. I didn't like increasing the number of diapers I had to wash when I used a clean prefold to wrap a dirty diaper in after duking. It just made diaper laundry more of a hastle and put more wear on the prefolds. The pail lid method was by far the best because I didn't have a bowl to disinfect afterwards. Amber

I do the same thing, it works out great. ALthough I'm about to "upgrade" to a larger pail w/ a fliptop lid I can open w/a footpedal thingie, and this thread makes me wonder about my intentions.............