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We have just fairly recently taken the next step of using cloth at night more regularly (yay! for the next step). My son's night-time diapers are quite strong smelling by morning (heavy wetter!!!!), and I'm just wondering if other people find it necessary to rinse these diapers (even if it's just pee), rather than having them sit in a dry pail until time to wash. I'm wondering if the diapers will retain odor over time, or have any other issues.
Speaking of the next step....a couple of times a week my son is in the church nursery for over an hour. I have been just putting him in a disposable for that time and having disposables in the diaper bag, but I guess I'm trying to take more steps in the cloth direction, and was trying to figure out if it would be possible (or worth it) to use cloth during that time. I don't have any AIO's, or pockets or anything, and would prefer (at least at this point) not to buy anything else (...just got my first order of brand new dipes!). The one day in the nursery, the same care-givers are always there, and are of the age that they almost certainly used cloth on their own babies. It's just a matter of introducing them to my diaper system, but also of having someone else handle our diapers in the event that DS has a BM in the time that he is with them. The other day that he is in the nursery, there are many different people from week to week, so I'm not sure if it's realistic to keep him in cloth. Any ideas? suggestions? thoughts?
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Our DS is 23 months old now and we've been rinsing his nighttime diaper in the morning since the urine smell is so strong... If you're washing everyday, probably not an issue, but we normally wash every 2-3 days, so they do stink up the bathroom after a while.
As for the nursery, I would talk to them (and show them your diapers) and see what they say... If our little guy goes somewhere than his regular babysitter, I normally just snap his diapers (the clean ones) in advance so whoever changes him doesn't have to worry about it and can just pull them up like pants (we use large sandies and he's 23 months, so not sure how it would work with a young baby and OS)... As for poopy diapers, I just ask them to roll it up (if they don't want to deal with it) and I dump and rinse when I get home... Hope that helps! |
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| When my son started drinking less milk and we didn't change his diaper at night, we found, too, that the morning diaper smell was quite strong. I also noticed that it would retain a bit of smell after washing. So what I do is I simply keep the morning diaper separate, in a plastic container, in the bathroom, and cover it with plain water. I found that just rinsing wasn't enough to get rid of the smell, soaking seems to help and that way I can keep my dry pail for all the other diapers. I wash every other day (and sometimes skip another day) and that's what seems to work for me. |
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We generally rinse night diapers as well, because of the strong smell. Sometimes I am lazy and don't, but the pail is less stinky and I'm happier with the clean results when the nighttime diapers are rinsed.
I keep my DS in his cloth diapers for church nursery. It's not that long of time and he generally doesn't poop during it. Actually, there has been only one time between two boys that someone had to change a poopy diaper. In my diaper bag I usually provide both a dispoable and a cloth diaper, so that if they aren't confident about putting cloth on, they don't have to. If I weren't pretty sure that DS wouldn't poop during that time I would be tempted to go with a disposable (though I am pretty hardcore with using cloth to travel, etc) simply because as you say there are so many different people rotating through church nursery, and I'd hate to have a diaper thrown out. I'd hope people would know better than that, but???
But I did just have one thought that I might do myself. I keep his diaper stuff in a gallon ziploc (travel wipes container, pad, one disposable, one cloth, plastic bags), so maybe on the outside of that I could put a sticker or something with basic instructions (thinking write/type on a small piece of paper and affix it with clear contact paper or something so it won't rub off), like "Jon is wearing a cloth diaper. Please don't worry about cleaning off the diaper; just roll up the diaper (not the cover) to trap anything inside, and put it into the bread bag. If you are not comfortable putting on the clean cloth diaper, please feel free to use the disposable; just stick the cover back into the diaper bag. Thanks!" Or something like that? Whaddya think? |
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In our church nursery we take any kids who are wet or stinky to their parents to be changed. You could request that the adults bring your child to you. |
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Thank you all for the help in figuring out whats normal and what works...I think I had better keep rinsing the nighttime diapers then. I just didn't want to make unnecessary work for myself, but I'll do it if I need to
And thanks for the input for ideas to make cloth work in the nursery. I think I'll try at least the day when it's the regular care givers, see how that goes and go from there. I like the idea of putting the instructions with the option of disposable or cloth(it might even be good to include for the regulars, since it might be so infrequent that they actually have to change him and might forget exactly what I'd like done). Maybe I could add on the instructions, that if they are uncomfortable with the whole thing, they could come and get me. It's funny, I thought since it isn't a long time and he usually doesn't have a BM at this time of day he would be fine in the same diaper until I return. So I tried bringing him in cloth last week since I was the one in the nursery anyways....of course he pooped! No big deal since it was me, but just made me a little more unsure of the whole thing.
Thanks! I'm glad I asked! |
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