CD mamas - pail question

megngregk · December 2013

Right now I've got the diaper pail (garbage can with tight closing lid) and wet bag right next to the changing station. I plan to rinse every diaper to help with odor, so I'm thinking it would make more sense to keep it in the bathroom, right? This is one of those silly things that keep me up at night.

Where do you keep yours, and do you rinse every diaper?

agunnet · December 2013

Mine is right next to the changing table. Trash can with a swing lid and wet bag liner inside. I don't rinse ebf poop at all before I wash. After we start solids we will rinse poop diapers in the toilet and store a can in the bathroom and one in the nursery for just wet diapers.

ksonne · December 2013

We left the wet bag (Planet Wise) right at the changing station. We didn't rinse EBF poop. Now that DS1 eats solids, we leave the wet bag in the bathroom and plop poop in the toilet. No stink issues either way.

megngregk · December 2013

Good to know! I just assumed the poop (even from EBF) would smell awful and maybe not come out all the way in the wash. Not to mention I'm not sure how I feel about throwing poopy diapers straight into the machine. I know it's water soluable, so I suppose it's not that big of a deal?

CopperT0p · December 2013

agunnet said:

Mine is right next to the changing table. Trash can with a swing lid and wet bag liner inside. I don't rinse ebf poop at all before I wash. After we start solids we will rinse poop diapers in the toilet and store a can in the bathroom and one in the nursery for just wet diapers.

This. So long as you are doing wash every other day, you shouldn't have stink issues with EBF poop or pee.

ksonne · December 2013

And we also wash every other day, so that probably helps minimize stink.

moosebaby2011 · December 2013

I don't rinse wet diapers, nor did I rinse my BPF poo diapers. I keep a hanging wet bag next to the changing table, and once DS started solid I started keeping another in the bathroom for any poop diapers. I wash every 2-3 days. No stink issues.

One thing that I would advise is NOT to close the lid on the pail. I know it sounds weird, but stink issues are actually much worse if you try to seal them in so I'd definitely leave the pail open to the air. Think of dirty diapers as sweaty gym clothes that are left zipped up in a bag. The closed environment just concentrates the stink.

1017Shannon · December 2013

The thing that worked best for me was a wet bag upstairs and a wet bag downstairs. Only thing that kept stink out! I think you will give up quick if you try and rinse every diaper after changing. Not necessary. Make it easy on yourself! Also, diaper pails even with an open lid never worked for me BC I could still smell everything. But try it and see what works best for you!

agunnet · December 2013

I really find the swing lid Trash to work awesome. Let's in enough air to vent it and yet holds the stink in to where I don't smell it. We also wash every other day

megngregk · December 2013

Thanks for the input ladies! I'm pretty relieved to hear that you don't have to rinse every diaper because I was already thinking about how much time that would add to me being up for MOTN feedings/changes.

berenely · December 2013

moosebaby2011 said:

I don't rinse wet diapers, nor did I rinse my BPF poo diapers. I keep a hanging wet bag next to the changing table, and once DS started solid I started keeping another in the bathroom for any poop diapers. I wash every 2-3 days. No stink issues.

One thing that I would advise is NOT to close the lid on the pail. I know it sounds weird, but stink issues are actually much worse if you try to seal them in so I'd definitely leave the pail open to the air. Think of dirty diapers as sweaty gym clothes that are left zipped up in a bag. The closed environment just concentrates the stink.

This. I'm a FTM, but I have heard this analogy before. Also, as for the formula question, I read that you'll want to plop poop it in the toilet or rinse it off before you wash it, or you could always use liners. With the EBF poop, you just do an extra rinse cycle in the beginning to rinse it.

But yes, check out the CD board. There's so much info over there.

moosebaby2011 · December 2013

@hillarycwkelly: I *think* that EFF poo is still water soluble. It's only when they start eating solids that you have to worry about getting the poo off the diaper before washing, but I definitely recommend asking the CD board to double check.

You may have more problems with stink and EFF poo - I know a friend of mine who's LO had to have soy formula had very, very stinky poop, but again that is something you may want to double check.

rowanthefrog · December 2013

I have a wet bag with a zipper next to the changing table. Downstairs in my laundry room I have a garbage can with a tight fitting lid that I put an elastic wet bag in.

Honestly I don't rinse each diaper...BF poop really doesn't smell that bad and once I get into solids poop I use a liner that I either flush with most of the poop or put in a plastic grocery bag and throw away into the outside garage trash right away.

I pretty much got into the habit of putting poopy dipes into the laundry room can right away, except maybe for those middle of the night changes. Nice thing with the wet bag though is you can empty it right into the washer and throw it in and never touch any poop at all!

I've never used a diaper sprayer or anything like that nor have I missed it.

A

moosebaby2011 · December 2013

megngregk said:

Good to know! I just assumed the poop (even from EBF) would smell awful and maybe not come out all the way in the wash. Not to mention I'm not sure how I feel about throwing poopy diapers straight into the machine. I know it's water soluable, so I suppose it's not that big of a deal?

@megngregk: You get over the poop-in-the-washer thing pretty fast - at least I did. It really does wash right out, even without rinsing first. You may get some stains but hanging the wet diapers in the sun (near a sunny window will work) will take the stains right out.

It may take a little time to get your wash routine tweaked just right. The CD board ladies are great from troubleshooting wash issues. What's been working for me (I have a regular top-load washer and hard water) is a warm pre-rinse with no detergent, followed by a hot wash with 2 tablespoons of Tide F&G powder, cold rinse, and then an extra rinse to make sure the detergent is gone.

megngregk · December 2013

moosebaby2011 said:

megngregk said:

Good to know! I just assumed the poop (even from EBF) would smell awful and maybe not come out all the way in the wash. Not to mention I'm not sure how I feel about throwing poopy diapers straight into the machine. I know it's water soluable, so I suppose it's not that big of a deal?

@megngregk: You get over the poop-in-the-washer thing pretty fast - at least I did. It really does wash right out, even without rinsing first. You may get some stains but hanging the wet diapers in the sun (near a sunny window will work) will take the stains right out.

It may take a little time to get your wash routine tweaked just right. The CD board ladies are great from troubleshooting wash issues. What's been working for me (I have a regular top-load washer and hard water) is a warm pre-rinse with no detergent, followed by a hot wash with 2 tablespoons of Tide F&G powder, cold rinse, and then an extra rinse to make sure the detergent is gone.

Thanks for the tips @moosebaby2011! It's more my mom's bf that I'm concerned about as far as the laundry goes, lol. He's really weirded out about the cloth diaper idea, and since I live with them until DH comes home next year, we share a washer and dryer. It's also an older washer (newer dryer, go figure) and doesn't have extra rinse cycles. I may just end up washing all loads twice, which I'm fine with if need be.

moosebaby2011 · December 2013

megngregk said:

moosebaby2011 said:

megngregk said:

Good to know! I just assumed the poop (even from EBF) would smell awful and maybe not come out all the way in the wash. Not to mention I'm not sure how I feel about throwing poopy diapers straight into the machine. I know it's water soluable, so I suppose it's not that big of a deal?

@megngregk: You get over the poop-in-the-washer thing pretty fast - at least I did. It really does wash right out, even without rinsing first. You may get some stains but hanging the wet diapers in the sun (near a sunny window will work) will take the stains right out.

It may take a little time to get your wash routine tweaked just right. The CD board ladies are great from troubleshooting wash issues. What's been working for me (I have a regular top-load washer and hard water) is a warm pre-rinse with no detergent, followed by a hot wash with 2 tablespoons of Tide F&G powder, cold rinse, and then an extra rinse to make sure the detergent is gone.

Thanks for the tips @moosebaby2011! It's more my mom's bf that I'm concerned about as far as the laundry goes, lol. He's really weirded out about the cloth diaper idea, and since I live with them until DH comes home next year, we share a washer and dryer. It's also an older washer (newer dryer, go figure) and doesn't have extra rinse cycles. I may just end up washing all loads twice, which I'm fine with if need be.

That's what I did with the washer we had before we moved and got a washer with an extra rinse option. I just used the shortest possible wash cycle for the pre-wash and extra rinse.

rowanthefrog · December 2013

megngregk said:

moosebaby2011 said:

megngregk said:

Good to know! I just assumed the poop (even from EBF) would smell awful and maybe not come out all the way in the wash. Not to mention I'm not sure how I feel about throwing poopy diapers straight into the machine. I know it's water soluable, so I suppose it's not that big of a deal?

@megngregk: You get over the poop-in-the-washer thing pretty fast - at least I did. It really does wash right out, even without rinsing first. You may get some stains but hanging the wet diapers in the sun (near a sunny window will work) will take the stains right out.

It may take a little time to get your wash routine tweaked just right. The CD board ladies are great from troubleshooting wash issues. What's been working for me (I have a regular top-load washer and hard water) is a warm pre-rinse with no detergent, followed by a hot wash with 2 tablespoons of Tide F&G powder, cold rinse, and then an extra rinse to make sure the detergent is gone.

Thanks for the tips @moosebaby2011! It's more my mom's bf that I'm concerned about as far as the laundry goes, lol. He's really weirded out about the cloth diaper idea, and since I live with them until DH comes home next year, we share a washer and dryer. It's also an older washer (newer dryer, go figure) and doesn't have extra rinse cycles. I may just end up washing all loads twice, which I'm fine with if need be.

I do two washes as well. My first wash is a cold water presoak with no detergent followed by a regular cold water wash. That basically gets all the poo and preliminary pee off - kind of the equivalent of rinsing yourself. Then I open up the washer, make sure all the inserts came out of the pockets, flip things inside out if needed etc. Then I do my second "serious" wash - Hot/cold cycle, extra rinse, max extract, stain extract, with detergent.

I dry all inserts and anything without elastic on the "low, very dry" setting on my dryer. I air dry any covers, AIO, fitteds, etc...anything with elastic, bc I ruined my first set of dipes by drying them. The elastic went out after about 20 months and I wasn't able to replace it so I had to buy new dipes (which I didn't mind so much, but it was the principle of the thing.)

EBF poo really is water soluble and washes right away..its just not a big deal. Solids poo is a little nastier, but you knock most of it off in the toilet anyway. You can always wash your washer every few weeks if you want to.

A

megngregk · December 2013

@rowanthefrog, thank you!!

rowanthefrog · December 2013

megngregk said:

@rowanthefrog, thank you!!

@megngregk

Anytime! I love talking cloth

Ask me nicely and I'll start taking pics of my stash, newborn and beyond!

mj0413 · December 2013

Don't want to hijack, but I was wondering- when you start rinsing the dirty CDs before putting them in the pail (like when you're introducing solids), what do you do with the baby? Do you completely change them, then carry them to the bathroom to rinse the dipe? I'm sure I'm a little ahead of myself, but I've just been wondering about that.

rowanthefrog · December 2013

mj0413 said:

Don't want to hijack, but I was wondering- when you start rinsing the dirty CDs before putting them in the pail (like when you're introducing solids), what do you do with the baby? Do you completely change them, then carry them to the bathroom to rinse the dipe? I'm sure I'm a little ahead of myself, but I've just been wondering about that.

LOL, well I still don't rinse them. I use disposable liners like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Bummis-BL-L-Bio-Soft-Liner-Large/dp/B0025YWL4W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1387770674&sr=8-2&keywords=disposable+diaper+liners+for+cloth+diapers

So when they poop most of the poop is on the liner. I then completely change the baby and put the dirty dipe on the floor or wherever while I change him. Then, once he's changed, I go and knock the liner and most of the poop into either the toilet and flush it or into a plastic grocery bag with the wipes and throw the whole thing into my garbage outside in the garage. The dipe goes into my can lined with a wetbag in my laundry room.

Sometimes those disposable liners do clog my toilet, so I usually put them in a grocery bag to throw them away.

If I'm using cloth wipes then I just put the dirty cloth wipes with the diaper in the can and wash them with the dipes.

A

MamaP19 · December 2013

ksonne said:

We left the wet bag (Planet Wise) right at the changing station. We didn't rinse EBF poop. Now that DS1 eats solids, we leave the wet bag in the bathroom and plop poop in the toilet. No stink issues either way.

This.

megngregk · December 2013

mj0413 said:
Don't want to hijack, but I was wondering- when you start rinsing the dirty CDs before putting them in the pail (like when you're introducing solids), what do you do with the baby? Do you completely change them, then carry them to the bathroom to rinse the dipe? I'm sure I'm a little ahead of myself, but I've just been wondering about that.

Lol, I had been wondering this too.

moosebaby2011 · December 2013

mj0413 said:

Don't want to hijack, but I was wondering- when you start rinsing the dirty CDs before putting them in the pail (like when you're introducing solids), what do you do with the baby? Do you completely change them, then carry them to the bathroom to rinse the dipe? I'm sure I'm a little ahead of myself, but I've just been wondering about that.

I get DS changed (putting the dirty diaper on the floor or on top of the trash temporarily), stick him in a secure location, and then go take care of the diaper in the bathroom. At this stage of the game his poop is fully "ploppable" so I rarely have to rinse or spray.

The disposable liners never worked that well for me. They always seemed to bunch up and I'd have to spray the diaper anyway.

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