what is your system for dealing with poopy dipes?

I take off her diaper and fold it up so the bm stays in there. Then I wipe her (w/ either a cloth wipe or disposable one). When I have her all changed I take the pf to the toilet and shake the bm in there. Then I flush and put the cd in the pail until wash day.

If the bm is sticky and won't come off, I get as much as I can off then put it in the washing machine alone (or w/ the cover if bm got on it) for a rinse. Then I dump any other dirty pf's and do another rinse, then wash.

I clean up the kids and then take all the poopy items to the bathroom where I shake everything off into the toilet, using the wipe again if I need to to encourage the stickier messes, then I rinse and wring out everything in the sink and then it goes in the dry pail with the pee dipes. Then I clean the sink. Not very efficient. I really need a mini shower for the toilet. working on that!

so is it ok if there is a bit of stuck on poo to put it into the washer? It won't hurt or clog the washer (sorry, I am washing machine ignorant, too)

I dont stress if I cant get it all off easily, we do a diaper wash every day.

My step-mother said she used disposable diaper liners when she cloth diapered her daughter (21 years ago). She said she just flushed the bm in the liner, and soaked the wet diapers in a bucket of bleach solution till she had a full load to wash. I haven't used my cloth diapers yet cause I'm staying at my dad's right now, and it's too much trouble. Can't speak from my own experience, sorry... That might be something your husband is okay with though...

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Sometimes we have some diapers that have little clumps here and there stuck on them. They come off in the washer and we haven't had any clogging problems yet! I would say unless it's a huge amount then you won't have any problems.

OK...So I don't need to dunk the diaper into the toilet to swish it around? Because I was wondering how I would manage a now drippy diaper...

I never swish - ewwww.... !!! I did a few times before we got the mini-shower I guess, but now I just use that.

XOXO

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I would dunk it in the toilet a few times to get the worst of it off.

I change her, toss the dipe,wipes, and whatever else in the tub or in a paile on teh floor if I'm not in the bathroom. When I am done with her, I spray (mini shower) the wipes off in the tub. I put the dipe over the toilet seat and spray the VERY pastey poop in the toilet, till the dipe is just stained yellow like.

I spary any off the cover.

I put it all in the bummis bag/dipe pail.

I wash every few days.

Dd's potty trained but here's how we dealt with them in the last year of diapering:

1) removed diaper, folded it over, wiped her.
2) took diaper to toilet and sprayed with toilet sprayer to get it all off
3) if it looked like it would stain I sprayed Zout on it before throwing it in the pail
4) made sure I did a cold soak on wash day

That's it!

Darshani

Today is my FIRST day of CDing. 14mo DD had a mini poop in diaper #2. I thought, oh, this isn't so bad - it does just roll off the dipe.

Well, within 10 minutes - there was a monster, gross, soft, raisin-filled, mushy poop - that filled the ENTIRE diaper - (but, did not leak out into the cover - a kissaluv).

I took it off her, folded it up, wiped her - put on my FIRST UBCPF w/ snappi (let's see how long that holds!!) - covered it - and then took the kissaluv to the commode. I had to dunk, swish, flush, dunk, swish, flush and wring. EEEWWWWWW!

Needless to say, i just ordered a mini- shower on line. I don't plan to tell DH about this experience until the mini-shower arrives. I don't want him to get anxious anticipating such a mess! We'll cross that bridge when it comes.

Jean

I'm a flicker/dunker as needed.

DD's poops are solid so I flick off what will come off but if there remains any chunks then I dunk.

My SIL who has twim 3 month old babies uses a mini shower on all poopy diapers