What Are Your Policies/Feelings About Cloth Diapering For Children In Care?

[Former Teacher]

Girl, the cloth diapers these days are not at all like the ones from years past. I bet you will find it very easy and shocked at how easy it is!

Make the parents bring one days worth of diapers and one wetbag (waterproof bag that keeps in the stink). Everything goes home at the end of the day (I do not launder for daycare families) Ask that all diapers be of a similar kind so you dont have to figure out what needs a cover, what needs this or that. Feel free to post here with questions!!

Thanks cheerfuldom!

Actually since I am a private nanny now, I will be going to their house. It will be/is so worth it happyface

Of course I ALWAYS come here for any questions I might have! Whether it is about children or just everyday life. You all are my best friends without faces ::

[Creek]

I cloth diaper my kids and any daycare kids whose families bring supplies for them. I do "roll" out the solid poos in the trash but do not scrape and rinse for daycare families. To be honest, I dont even scrape and rinse for my kids. I run the diapers in a rinse cycle, then wash, then another rinse and that takes care of all of it.

Was the person who responded a parent? or another provider? I could totally see a parent that has only one child saying this. They have no clue what your day is like

A parent of course. I explained that I would empty what I could of course but I was not scraping and rinsing out a poopy diaper. I have other children to supervise. I also added in the part about US licencing in some states state that you can't be 'playing in poo' . She just doesn't care. She's one of those posters who seems to write odd stuff anyways. I'm trying VERY hard to leave it alone. Some people just can't be reasoned with.

She said

"...if I got home and opened my wet bag to find piles of feces in it, honestly - I'd probably quit that daycare. To me as a parent, if you tell me you are ok with cloth diapers & then I get home and find my child's feces in that bag, I'm really going to wonder what else you are slacking on. I would be looking for a new daycare that understood/accepted my choice to CD. "

[saved4always]

A parent of course. I explained that I would empty what I could of course but I was not scraping and rinsing out a poopy diaper. I have other children to supervise. I also added in the part about US licencing in some states state that you can't be 'playing in poo' . She just doesn't care. She's one of those posters who seems to write odd stuff anyways. I'm trying VERY hard to leave it alone. Some people just can't be reasoned with.

She said

"...if I got home and opened my wet bag to find piles of feces in it, honestly - I'd probably quit that daycare. To me as a parent, if you tell me you are ok with cloth diapers & then I get home and find my child's feces in that bag, I'm really going to wonder what else you are slacking on. I would be looking for a new daycare that understood/accepted my choice to CD. "

I wonder if she would be as ok with it if it was some other child's cloth diaper. As has been said on this forum before. This is GROUP care. Providers need to do what is best for the group. To me, that is making sure anything that is contaminated with feces is contained as quickly as possible and touches as few surfaces as possible. Dumping a pile into a nearby toilet is one thing. Rinsing in a sink (or even manipulating it in toilet water enough to "clean" it) is too much of a bacteria risk. In my home, I don't have a utility sink in my laundry room so rinsing would be either in my bathroom or kitchen sink....where children and I wash hands and where food prep is done. Not going to happen.

[Unregistered]

I charge a fee in addition to the normal weekly rate for parents that cloth diaper. I also do no washing, dumping, etc.

[Blackcat31]

I charge a fee in addition to the normal weekly rate for parents that cloth diaper. I also do no washing, dumping, etc.

Why would you charge an additional fee for parents that use cloth diapers. :confused:

I don't see how cloth diapering is any more work or any more troublesome than disposable diapers or kids who wear pull ups.

Personally, I would rather give the additional fee to those who use disposables as they have a profound effect on our environment.

Kudos to those who do use cloth diapers as I would like my grand children and great grandchildren have the right to breathe fresh air and have a clean environment to grow up in!

[sharlan]

For those that have an issue with the poo, ask your parents to provide diaper liners. They're so convenient to just dump into the toilet.

[Abigail]

To the original question....I do have children in cloth diapers in my care. I always ask what type of diapers they use. I have always had bum genius with the liners that come in daily prestuffed ready to use and a diaper bag to put them in. All I have to do it fasten the laundry velcro tabs and pull the insert out and fold it into the diaper and place in the bag. This way the parents just dump out the entire bag in the washer when they get home. All diapers and bag are brought fresh daily. The oldest goes number two in the toilet, but when the child didn't I would dump it to the toilet and flip it.

Do what you're comfortable with. Have gloves on hand if you want to use them. I wouldn't say charge extra, cloth diapers are not bad and you don't have the smell around your own garbage can for a week until garbage day either! I would say it's reasonable to ask parents to provide you with a box of medium sized gloves but for $9 I would just go buy them myself which I already do. This is covered by an enrollment fee.

You need to check with your licensing rules. Ours states that we're not allowed to have cloth diapers within reach and must be handled in a sanitary manner. This means not to carry the dirty diaper through the house to flip into the toilet. I just changed this older one in the bathroom when it was a number two so I could dump it and get rid of the smell. We also need a diaper bag, not plastic bags for cloth diapers to be transferred home in.

I wish you luck and recommend you at least give it a try if you think you can do it! Let the parents know up front if you're not sure if you'll be comfortable with it and even ask them to change the child in front of you once to show you! LOL I'm sure they would too!

BTW: I also have them bring extra disposables to have here incase I run out of cloth for the day. I've only had to use maybe 3 disposables in three months of full time care so ask for a half-a-dozen to be here as spares and you'll let them know when they run low. My general policies for diapering is to have diapers brought by the box, not per day but I make sure to ask if they cloth diaper as I go over the handbook with them and then we discuss what works best. Cloth diapers take up about twice as much room for storage so enough for the day is all I can do anyways!

[SilverSabre25]

Abigail brought up an excellent point--the parents need to leave 5-10 disposables here "just in case".

[cheerfuldom]

A parent of course. I explained that I would empty what I could of course but I was not scraping and rinsing out a poopy diaper. I have other children to supervise. I also added in the part about US licencing in some states state that you can't be 'playing in poo' . She just doesn't care. She's one of those posters who seems to write odd stuff anyways. I'm trying VERY hard to leave it alone. Some people just can't be reasoned with.

She said

"...if I got home and opened my wet bag to find piles of feces in it, honestly - I'd probably quit that daycare. To me as a parent, if you tell me you are ok with cloth diapers & then I get home and find my child's feces in that bag, I'm really going to wonder what else you are slacking on. I would be looking for a new daycare that understood/accepted my choice to CD. "

she sounds like an idiot or drama queen. I would write "you are welcome to go ahead and try that. Your provider may work with you, she may not. You might find that after working with in-home daycares, your expectations are not as reasonable as you think they are"

[youretooloud]

I use cloth diapers. But, I don't rinse the poopy diapers either. If a parent would be appalled by that..... guess who would suddenly do sposies only? Me.

[youretooloud]

Personally, I would rather give the additional fee to those who use disposables as they have a profound effect on our environment.

Not to mention your garbage can. We have trash pickup once a week, I hate disposables for that reason alone.

[saved4always]

Not to mention your garbage can. We have trash pickup once a week, I hate disposables for that reason alone.

Those poopy diapers in the trash definitely stink up the garage!