CDs make me scared to start solids

Allie30

SO LO is 6 months old now and ready to start solids, but I've been putting it off -- partially, because it seems like such a huge, complicated mess compared to nursing/bottles, and partially because the diaper situation ALSO seems like a huge, complicated mess.

LO's nursery is on the 2nd floor. Our laundry is in the basement. We have a bathroom so small it's impossible to think about keeping a separate diaper pail in there. We don't have space to keep ANYTHING in there. There is no counter space (just a pedastal sink) and no other storage (just a miniscule medicine cabinet) We have a toilet so old there's no chance we can install a diaper sprayer on it (it hardly flushes as is). "Dunking" does not appeal to me. I have no idea what you do with your poop-covered plastic knives/spatulas if you take the "scraping" approach. Don't they stink up your bathroom? How do you clean them off after using them?

AND she goes to daycare, where they just roll up the diapers with whatever's inside them and shove 'em in a wetbag.

Someone talk me down from the ledge!

jCamsquared

I can't help with the daycare issue as I WAH, but I hear you on the small bathroom. It was actually a MUCH smoother transition than I feared. He had about a two week period of 'peanut butter poop', and there have been a couple times he was sick and refusing solids so his poop went soft again.

We have an old spatula in the bathroom at all times. After scraping I keep it dunked in the toilet while I flush, then rinse under super hot water for a minute.

Otherwise his poops just plop right off into the toilet. It is so so so easy. I personally find it easier than BM poop because that was so much messier to clean up. The solid poop hardly even stays on his bum, so there's almost nothing to wipe up.

xmeli554x

Can you put a hook on the back of the door for a hanging wetbag?

superned

It's really not that bad!  I don't have a bag/pail in my bathroom either.  When there's a poop I get DD all changed up, then I put her in the crib and take care of the poop in the bathroom and wash my hands.

I have a sprayer, but really only needed it for a couple of weeks, if that, during the peanut butter poop stage.  Now everything just plops right into the bowl - it makes laundry easier too because I'm not worried about (gross) smearing BF poo all over the sides of the washing machine!

My suggestion for child care would be to try flushable liners until the poop is consistently plop-able. Then you shouldn't have any trouble just unpacking the wet bag in the bathroom and flushing what you need to.  (Or, you could be lucky and have the kids that never poops at child care...I have one that poops there 2-3 times a day!)

Allie30

Thank you for the advice. Flushable liners! D'oh, I should have thought of that.

Unfortunately, there's no "wetbag on the back of the door" for me, either, since the back of the door has our towel racks on it -- literally the only wall space we have. (This bathroom is SO tiny. It's like an airplane bathroom.)

I love our old house, but MAN. BATHROOMS, people. (And closets. We have no closets, either.)

superned

Allie30:

I love our old house, but MAN. BATHROOMS, people. (And closets. We have no closets, either.)

Word.  I enjoy our old (140-year-old) house, but DH and I share the closet in DD's room because we don't have a full-sized one in our bedroom.  She does not have a closet at all!