What do you do after a blow out?

meli1112

My little guy just had his first blowout. I had just given him a bottle and burped him, so we were just relaxing with the Boppy under him. Luckily the majority of the poo-splosion got on the Boppy, not me! I cleaned him up, rinsed the poo off his clothes, etc. in the toilet (I didn't really know where else to do it) and am now doing a load of laundry (I NEED my Boppy! LOL)

So that got me thinking, how/where do you ladies take care of the aftermath of a blowout?

deleted22152218

I can almost always tell when one is about to happen because my lo has them often. When I sense one coming on, I will lay down one of those absorbant doggee pads and set her on it while she poops so that anything that leaks out of the diaper will end up there rather than on something I care about. I will also undress her if I have time. Afterwards we add the clothes to the laundry as usual or throw it away (wasteful, I know.) Then Lo gets a whipe down and heads to the bath.

deviduke412

I always soak his clothes in oxi clean to make sure that the poop does not stain them.

JNOVA2015

@lisajean07 you really throw away clothes after a blowout?? That's crazy to me!!

We've only had one, but I just rinsed the outfit in the bathroom sink to get the poop off, then threw it in with a load of baby laundry. Especially if you're EBF'ing, it's not like a big solid poop to clean!!

Miz_Liz

Maybe it's the STM in me talking, but I am at the point where if DD has a blow out, I am happy because it means she got a huge poop out and is probably feeling pretty darn good and we may have a better night. As for the outfits, boppy covers, etc. - eh, they wash out just fine. We have a spare boppy cover too so we are never without.

Lalala2326

I ebf so I just throw them in the washer as normal. If there is any staining I spray some lemon juice/water on it and stick it out in the sun for an afternoon, and it gets it right out. If you are giving formula at all rinsing is a good idea ahead of time. I'd treat it similar to cloth diapers (majority of poo into toilet, cold rinse then hot wash in the machine). I'm not sure how effective sunning is on formula poo but we use oxiclean as well. Boiling in a little oxiclean/water before washing gets out some serious stains, but it definitely is not something I'd do around little kids cause of the fumes.

mariafordon

Lol this is why I got an extra bobby cover so I can rotate with one in the wash. We've only had one major blowout but if it's not poop, it's milk.

We cloth diaper so washing poop is pretty routine around here. I just rinse it off and wash like anything else. Whether they're breastfed or formula fed the poop is water soluble until you start with solids so washing is no big deal.

PixelPosy

EBF so I just throw the whole mess in the washer and bathe kiddo if a wet wipe and wash cloth wipe down aren't enough to get us by for now. With my first too many blow outs usually meant she needed to go up a diaper size, even when she wasn't close to being out of the size range.

sorensensm24

Laugh, then silently cry to myself.... then remove onesie and washcloth wipe-down.

deleted22152218

JNOVA2015 said:

@lisajean07 you really throw away clothes after a blowout??

A lot of our DD's clothing is second or third hand hand-me-downs and really aren't worth saving. If it's something I bought or really love it's a different story. Unfortunately there was one little onesie I had to cut off of her after a particularly bad blowout. Luckily I ordered the same one in a bigger size as well!

mariafordon

mariafordon said:

We've only had one major blowout but if it's not poop, it's milk.

She must have read my mind while writing this because not 20 minutes later and I was washing poo out of a boppy, my pj pants, my underwear(yes, she managed to poop in MY pants!) and a swaddle blanket. Somehow the onesie was spared.

gulimz

Leyla has one of those daily lol. Almost the same time frame so I know when to be prepared. Right before she has this, her tummy makes a weird noise and I know it's coming. I quickly lay her down on those disposable sheet protectors (in the adult incontinence aisle) and wait for it. She has pooped on her clothes mainly but one time she got my husband sooooooo good! I loved it! Few hrs prior to that, she had projectile vomited on him. It made my day. But anyways, I just rinse it off, and throw it in the wash. If it's real bad, I spray some dreft stain remover. I have a "infant " wash setting on my washer which cleans her stuff pretty good with only warm water. As far as LO, if it went up her back and all that fun stuff, I throw her in the tub. If she only got her diaper areas, I rinse and dry her real well using the peri bottles I got from the hospital and one of her soft wash cloths .

kettlekitten

@Lalala2326 what's your lemon juice / water mix? I.e. How much juice and how much water? I want to try this!

Lalala2326

@kettlekitten I honestly never measure. I fill up like a 2 qt thing with water and add a decent squirt of lemon juice out of the RealLemon bottles and then pour it over the stuff that I've hung up outside and then let dry I don't think it matters too much the concentration but I wouldn't go too crazy on strong colored fabric. The lemon juice I mainly use on badly stained stuff - like my old cloth diaper prefolds that sat for 2 years between kids with horrible stains came out perfectly clean. Just plain water and then sunning works great on most stuff that isn't badly set it.

Lalala2326

lisajean07 said:

@lisajean07 you really throw away clothes after a blowout??

A lot of our DD's clothing is second or third hand hand-me-downs and really aren't worth saving. If it's something I bought or really love it's a different story. Unfortunately there was one little onesie I had to cut off of her after a particularly bad blowout. Luckily I ordered the same one in a bigger size as well!

What.... I've lived through a lot of blowouts and am trying to imagine one we'd have to cut off... I mean, even up the front and back soaked through multiple layers I can't imagine cutting it off. You just block their face best you can, pull it all off, wash it and bathe them. I mean I get throwing it away if you just don't want it but feeling you "had" to cut it off just strikes me as odd... We even had a crazy blowout in a restaurant parking lot that dripped all over the place then got all over the car seat cause naturally it was the one time we forgot the diaper bag. She was (and I was) covered in it by the time we got her home, but we certainly didn't cut away her clothes or the car seat... We bathed her, washed them, sunned them, and good as new.

sarahmu7

My sister just experienced her first poopslosion and was horrified. It was kinda funny. I've had to pull the onesie down over her body instead of up over her head. She wiggles too much when putting them over her head that there would be poop all over her.

abmommy15

Lalala2326 said:

lisajean07 said:

JNOVA2015 said:

@lisajean07 you really throw away clothes after a blowout??

A lot of our DD's clothing is second or third hand hand-me-downs and really aren't worth saving. If it's something I bought or really love it's a different story. Unfortunately there was one little onesie I had to cut off of her after a particularly bad blowout. Luckily I ordered the same one in a bigger size as well!

What.... I've lived through a lot of blowouts and am trying to imagine one we'd have to cut off... I mean, even up the front and back soaked through multiple layers I can't imagine cutting it off. You just block their face best you can, pull it all off, wash it and bathe them. I mean I get throwing it away if you just don't want it but feeling you "had" to cut it off just strikes me as odd... We even had a crazy blowout in a restaurant parking lot that dripped all over the place then got all over the car seat cause naturally it was the one time we forgot the diaper bag. She was (and I was) covered in it by the time we got her home, but we certainly didn't cut away her clothes or the car seat... We bathed her, washed them, sunned them, and good as new.


Onesies have little folds at the shoulders that allow you to remove it without going over LO's head. There are videos on YouTube .