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DH's anti-CDing argument
I am considering cloth diapering. DH is horrified by the idea not because of cost or difficulty, but because he thinks throwing poop in the washer is disgusting. He does not believe that the washing machine will ever be clean enough to wash regular clothing after washing diapers. I tried to explain that we put pretty gross stuff in the washer already. I also explained that baby poop will seldom be limited to JUST diapers, and that I don't plan to throw out the baby's (and our) clothes each time they get poop on them. He still won't go for it. Any idea how to convince him?
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Re: DH's anti-CDing argument
I have been pooped on MANY times during diaper changes. ?Like, shoot out the bum on my clothes. ?No WAY will you not be washing poop in your washer.
I would tell my DH that I'd run an empty cycle with detergent or bleach to clean the washer in between diapers and other laundry. ?And then I would not actually do that.?
I'd totally do this too, LOL.
Brilliant! LOL.
Diaper blowout pics from Yahoo!
That is horriffic.
OMG tell me that last picture is not poop, tell me that last picture is not poop!!!!
First - I ditto everyone else. Before we switched to cloth we had poopsplosions that resulted in poop all the way up the back, in the hair, out the legs, on ds, ON ME, all over his clothes, all over the changing pad, all over the carseat. Once we had one that shot across the room from the changing station and hit the mirrored closet door (this would have happened cloth or not, as he was sans diaper at the moment). I would much much rather clean poop off a diaper then off ds, his clothes and myself. We've had zero blowouts in cloth. Way better imo.
But if it really bothers him - get a diaper sprayer. It's a spray nozzle (sort of like your sink has) that attaches to the back of your toilet. You spray the diaper off (no swishing and dunking so your hands stay clean) into the toilet and put the wet diaper in the diaper pail. No poop in the washer. We don't bother with it but plenty of women swear by them.
You hit on the most perfect point already. As parents, your clothes and linens will get all kinds of bodily fluids on them to be washed. Pee, poo, vomit, snot, spit up, etc. and you will not be throwing those clothes away.
If it helps, my DH was very resistant. He still doesn't do any diaper laundry. But he has slowly come to really embrace the idea and encourages me to travel with cloth instead of sposies because he likes them better.
He is really surprised at what it's actually like. I think he was picturing nasty wet pails, lots of dealing with poop, bleach, etc., and it's not like that.
Oh man that last picture will give me nightmares!
I have mentioned this so many times on here before, but after 4 days on pitocin-induced contractions and a 4th degree tear, I felt that I wasn't physically able to handle CD right from the hospital. Then like day 4 we had a blowout while I was struggling to breast feed DD. It was 4am and there was poop on my shirt, my pants, through my pants AND underwear to my skin, on my chair, the floor, the Pakc and Play that was 2 feet away, the comforter and footboard of the bed three feet away, and all over my DD.
We went to cloth and never have experienced another blowout.
And all those clothes went in the washer and came out great. I remember selling DH on it pre-DD and telling him we throw the towels from cleaning the dogs' feet after being out in the rain, whenb the dog accidently pees on the floor, when DH has a stomach virus and we had to clean up the bathroom, when he got so drunk once and missed the toilet and we cleaned it up with rags... if all that gross stuff can go in the washer and come out clean enough to wear again, what is the difference with a few diapers.
Seeing how clean the diapers are after a wash (and how clean they and trhe washer SMELL) is a good convincer. Maybe you can try ONE diaper and wash it and see how it goes?
I don't know how well these work, but I was thinking of trying the thin flushable liner that goes in the regular CD when LO is a newborn. I thought it might help for the first little while when getting everyone used to CDs and the really loose NB poop. They don't seem very expensive and if they can be flushed with most of the poop on it - it might seem less gross to DH. Then I think I would switch to washable liners.
Maybe some of the moms have experience with these.
I've used the Imse Vimse and the Biosoft liners. The IMs are great because you can keep rewashing them when there is only pee on them and they hold up through several washes and get nice and soft. The others MUST be thrown out or they'll get fuzz all over the diapers in the wash. And sometimes there's a little overspill, but most poop diapers (when I remember to put a liner in) are so easy and I just throw the liner into the toilet.
I didn't start CDing until 9 months, but if I'd done it from the beginning, I would've loved just throwing the newborn diapers straight in the wash since breastfed poo is totally washable and water-soluble. But if the liners would help with your DH, then yes, it would be worth using the liners!
ETA: meant to say exclusive breastfed poo. So if you BF, the first 6 months of CD are supposed to be much easier! Once solids come into play, you have to try to get most of the poo off the diaper.
I think your DH is naive to the amount of poop that will be entering his life when he becomes a daddy- CD or not ;P
Seriously, though, read him some stories from 0-6 about poopsplosions. We have NEVER had one in cloth.
I'm sorry, but it IS poop...all the pictures are poop. I tried to get gross graphic ones so she could show DH
I was pretty grossed out by that one myself. I couldn't imagine having to clean that up....eww