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Hey gals! First of all, I'm very sad about DS not being EBF anymore. I know food is fun and necessary, but I enjoyed, and was proud of being his only source of nutrition! He's growing up!  So he is 7 months old, and on cereal, veggies and fruit. The poo is now almost like "normal" poo, and stinks! Amazing how a few tbsps of food can change it! Anyway, I've had to scrape, and rinse some dirty dipes for the first time. They are right now piled in the laundry room sink, waiting for a washing.
Couple questions- do you store these dipes to themselves, in a wet bag? (I currently dry pail the non-rinsed ones) How long can these wet dipes go without being washed- 3 days?
Also, the moment he started eating cereal, some wet dipes smell of ammonia soon after. My, that was fast, and can they still sit the normal 2-3 days as well?
I have always traveled with cloth, never bought any posies. I am feeling guilty about wanting to use posies on a weekend trip, cause of the smell! Does anyone else do this? Will I have leaks and blowouts to deal with?
Any other tips, when poo starts to stink??
Thanks! 
Amber |
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I would highly recommend a diaper sprayer... it not only avoids the scraping and dunking, but it also gets rid of almost all the poop and smell. I use a dry pail and find that 2 days is my limit for washing, and a pre-rinse is a must now. I don't separate my pee diapers from the poopy ones, but I guess you could to avoid having to open the pail and smell the poopy ones every time.
And when you are traveling, I find that my wet bag does keep the smell down, but I do ask my MIL to use her washer to wash the diapers if I am there more than two days.
Good luck!
julie |
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I understand your feeling and I second the recommendation of a diaper sprayer. Well worth the investment in my opinion!
What I do is I dry pail, but I put the poopy diapers in a small, separate bucket that I keep in the bathroom. I rinse them as soon as I can, but sometimes I can only do it once a day and I have a few diapers to rinse by then. After they are rinsed I put them back in the pail and I never really had issues with stink - the pail smells like pee more than poo. I also found, around that time, that the overnight pee diaper smelled so bad that I had to rinse them too. I usually put them in another small pail in the bathroom and soak them (essentially, wet-pailing only the overnight diapers).
I wash every 2 days, and I sometimes go to 2 1/2 days without any problem. When I travel, I use sposies because sometimes it's just impossible to do otherwise, but I do have some blowouts to deal with once in a while. I read before on the forum people suggesting to use a diaper cover on top of the sposies to catch potential leaks. I was thinking of trying it - covers are relatively easy to wash if they get dirty, you can throw them with a normal load of laundry or handwash. That could be a solution. Many people manage to travel with cloth anyway, you can see lots of threads about that in the forum. But I personally don't feel too guilty about putting my son in disposable diapers a few times a year when I consider all that I am saving the rest of the year.
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I understand what you mean about starting solids. It seemed like most of my friends were so eager to have their little ones start on solids the minute it was "okay" (like four months), while I just didn't see the point of rushing it when DS was clearly thriving as EBF. There's something nice about not being quite so crucial anymore, but there's also something a bit sad.
Anyway, I have always rinsed out poop pretty well; if that means the diapers as well as the fleece liner, hey, and the whole sodden business goes into the same diaper pail as the wet ones (although I do actually have two pails, one by the changing table, which gets just pee, and one in the bathroom, so that one gets mostly poopies and rinsed night diapers, but it's not really deliberate to separate them). So my dry pail is usually a sodden pail, and that's okay. I think how long you can go depends a bit on climate and weather. I have gone four days, but am not recommending it for every time. 3, 3.5 is my normal.
If you are starting to get an ammonia smell, it could be the changing urine, or it could be time to think about whether you should put your diapers through a hot wash or two without detergent. Just a thought.
Don't feel guilty about disposables. I've gotten more and more comfortable with using cloth as we travel, but there are times where it's just not practical if there's an alternative. In my book, that's what disposables are for, the few times. Even when using disposables, if the setting is right and the poop formed, I will try to dump out the solids into the toilet, simply because that's much more the right place for it. If you think the poop is likely to blow out, I highly second the suggestion to use a cover over your disposable. I think Rikkis work a bit better for this, at least for BF poo, but AFs are probably good too. |
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