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Posts Tagged ‘diaper sprayer’A Great Mom ReviewThursday, February 18th, 2010A close friend and cloth diaperer of one (and soon to be two!) called me the other day asking my WHY I hadn’t told her she needed a diaper sprayer a year and a half ago when I helped her choose her newborn stash! I guess my asnwer should have been because I’m crazy, but the fact of the matter is that my daughter just wasn’t the super pooper that her son is. Her husband had actually just recently told her that the poop scraping and the dunking were really getting to him. I told her that she didn’t have to dunk but she insists that this poop is…well….you get the point. Anyway, with their second on the way and the prospect of having two under the age of two in cloth and all that poop was really daunting for him and he was thinking about switching to disposables <<gasp>>. Well diaper sprayer to the rescue. They got one, installed it in a jiffy and presto – one more family saved from disposable diapers. She tells me its her new best friend Just thought I would share, another happy cloth diaperer! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly…Thursday, July 9th, 2009In my 2+ yrs experience with cloth diapers, I can think of 3 main types of poop – the Good the Bad and the Ugly! How, might you ask, can poop be Good? Well once you have read the Bad and the Ugly, it will totally make sense! Good poop is that poop that your baby makes in his/her first 6ish months, mainly breast milk poop. On a cloth diaper, this poop is just left as it is and the diaper is then thrown into the pail and washed right in your washing machine. No, your washer won’t have poop in it, it won’t even smell like poop, it all will wash right down the drain with the water. This early poop is totally washable – so easy! The second type is the poop that your baby starts to have that more resembles regular old poop, once they start eating more solid foods. This is what I call the Ugly! Sure its gross, but Ugly poop will roll right off your diaper and into the toilet, so no matter how ugly it is, it’s easy to be rid of – right into the toilet and flush it down! The last type is the Bad poop, this poop needs to be flushed yet it does not just roll off the diaper and drop in the toilet, it sticks to the cloth! The first few times you find this poop in your child’s diaper, you might really question your desire to cloth diaper, thinking to yourself, or even out-loud to your partner “What were we thinking????” In my experience there are 3 viable option for dealing with this, if your child is one of those that frequently produces this “Bad” poop – like mine! 1. A paper diaper liner. These typically are made from rice paper or similar and resemble toilet paper, although much stronger. The way these work is that you lay them in the cloth diaper on the top closest to your child’s skin and they usually catch the bulk of the poop that would need flushing. Then you just lift the liner and the poop out and flush the whole thing. Additionally, most of these are made so that the ones that are just peed on can be washed and dried with your diapers and reused – they are also great for protecting your cloth diapers from diaper cream. 2. A rubber scraper or spatula, something designated just for scraping poop from cloth, washed off in the sink and stored in your bathroom. This is my personal method – yes we do have a small rubber scraper labeled “poop” in our bathroom. I usually keep it on the back of the toilet, but if we have *special* company coming, I store it under the sink! 3. A diaper sprayer. This is a great gadget that I have heard RAVE reviews about. It is easily installed on your existing toilet, hooked to the toilet’s water supply and its high pressure spray allows you to spray the poop from the diaper directly into the toilet. Parents also say its great for rinsing out the potty chair during potty learning! Please feel free to comment and share your experiences and tips! Happy diapering |
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