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Okay, I have a new DCC - wears cloth diapers & not the fancy type either. They are ones I need to fold on my own. It isn't that bad BUt child is constantly sore on the bottom no matter how often I change him (alomsot every 1.5 hrs). Not sure if he gets changed that much at home as grandpa brought DCC today & he had BM in his diaper at drop-off!!!! Anyway, mom said something at some point about how I could swish the BM diapers in my toilet - I never agreed to do this. If it is hard BM I can plop it in the toilet but this child's BMS are always too soft to do that. Do any of you clean BM cloth diapers? Or just send them home????
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I just send them home.
Suggest that mom look into either a)flushable liners or b) go to fabric store, buy fleece, cut into liner-shaped pieces, line each diaper with them. Then you just take the fleece liner and more of the poo drops off because it doesn't stick very well to fleece. Easy peasy.Hee hee! Look, I have a signature! -
I have a new DCB too who wears cloth diapers. My rule is I will shake the waste into the toilet. Whatever does not fall off stays. I don't swish, swirl, scrape or anything else.
From what I understand that is how cloth diapering is suppose to be handled because you can't touch feces and you can't rinse anything in a sink you use for food prep or handwashing.
I send the entire balled up diaper home with child and his mom says the washing machine set on second rinse is enough to get all the waste off of it and sanitize it too. She doesn't scrap, swirl or swish either and does not expect me to.
Here are a couple other threads about cloth diapers: https://www.daycare.com/forum/tags.p...=cloth+diapers
I was also told that you can't really use product on the bottom of kids who wear cloth diapers because the product gets stuck on the fabric and creates a barrier so that liquid and feces doesn't soak in and away from the babies bottom...sort of like having the diaper scotch-guarded. I have no idea if this is true or not but that is what my DCM said.Comment
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that is interesting about the no product. So what are they do when they have constant diaper rash??? I am wondering is he always has somewhat of a diaper rash - has only been coming to me for a month but has always been sore to some degree & mom sends along a vaseline-like product but it does not seem to help muchComment
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Exactly this! I cloth diapered my youngest two kids, and had a dcb in cloth. They do not wick away moisture as well, and they need to be changed more often and you can't use products on them. So if dcb isn't being changed often enough, that is probably why he has a rash. You can suggest as a pp said about the fleece liners, or even tell her that you would like her to purchase an all in one diaper, or pocket style for use at your home. DCM bought 6 pocket diapers for my house and would wash them at night and return them the next day. We never had any problems.Comment
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My daughter is in cloth diapers, here are my thoughts about some of your questions:
1. You can use some products as a barrier, they just can't be petroleum based. We use coconut oil, one of my dck's used shea butter. If she gets the liners that someone else mentioned, she can use pretty much anything, they'll prevent products from getting into the diapers.
2. When my daughter has a diaper rash, we take a break from cloth. Disposable diapers keep bums drier than cloth, letting the rash heal. We want to be nice to the planet, and avoid buying expensive diapers, but we also want her bum to be comfortable, and I've found that a rash just won't heal in cloth. We also put her in a disposable at night.
3. As a parent, I would never expect a day care provider to wash my child's diapers, or to dip them in the toilet. She should provide the liners, you can dump those in the trash, and anything else just goes into the wet bag for her to deal with at home. That's what I do with my own daughter's diapers, and any kids in my care who are in cloth. It's not sanitary for you to be swishing diapers, plus it just takes too long when you have other kids to chase around.
Hope that helps!Comment
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I send them home.
But, I use old cut up t-shirts for liners, or they send flushable liners. I throw the liner away, or just let the parents wash those too.
I have also washed a full set of disposable diaper wipes in my own washer and then used those as liners.
I find that my cloth diaper kids never have a rash, but the sposie kids get rashes all the time. Perhaps they are washing the diapers wrong?Comment
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There are some creams you can use with cloth. I always use Palmer's Bottom Butter to great effect (and it smells nummy, too!)
Do the diapers smell funky? They shouldn't smell like anything but "clean"--if they smell stinky at all then they might need stripped, or the washing routine dcm uses might not be sufficient.
I do mine on the prewash cycle (cold with a sprinkle of detergent), then HOT wash w/soak w/sprinkle of detergent and a downy ball full of distilled white vinegar, plus a 2nd rinse. Seems to take care of ours just fine.Hee hee! Look, I have a signature!Comment
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boy I feel old but someone educate me. I cloth diapered in the early 80's the diapers were cotton I had to fold then into the many layers I wahsed them in hot water with bleach and often hung them to dry in the sun. no odor, we used vasoline we were told to put a child in cloth if they had a rash.
So What is in todays daiapers that make them different?It:
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Never bleach.
But, I use mostly pre-folds with covers. It's the easiest system. They are just thick but ordinary prefolds.
The parents wash them in their own detergent, some wash them in special detergent. (Rockin Johnny or something) They dry them like they would towels. But, we don't use a diaper cream.
They strip them in Dawn dishwasher detergent (if needed) and very hot water.
Other than that, it's just a normal wash day. Nothing special at all.
One kid just recently brought over a big set of "Charlie Banana" diapers from Target, and I'll admit, I kinda love those things.Comment
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I cloth diapered my 1st child back in the early 80's. My grandma bought a bolt of double flannel and my mom made it into large cloth rectangles seamed on the sewing machine. Then showed me how to fold them to use for a boy or a girl. Plastic pants were used as a cover. Wet diapers went into one covered container. Poopy diapers were rinsed in the toilet and then put into a diaper pail containing water and some bleach. Once a week I did a load of diapers and I did use bleach. Those diapers wore like iron, nice and white and soft. In fact, I saved them and still have them 30 years later. They're wonderful for dustrags or cleaning windows. When my daughter had a rash, I used plain old desitin. And I never noticed anything wrong with the diapers from using ointment.
I think most states have regulations against daycares rinsing poopy diapers. They're supposed to be put into a bag and sent home with parents.Comment
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Anything with any sort of bodily fluids or excrement goes directly into a bag to be taken home. I do cloth diapers on my own DS and I would never expect anyone to do anything with my child's BMs, daycare or not. Just fold it up and put it in a bag. Don't dump anything.
Plus, doing anything as far as dumping poo out or swishing the diapers makes HER life easier. NOT your job description. ;-)Comment
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These are the kind of diapers the DCB I have uses. I don't remember what brand they are but there are snaps on them to accommodate growth. The liners though are inside the diaper rather than on top next to baby's skin so any waste is on the diaper itself but the liner I think is just there for extra absorbancy. not positive though.
This is the first time in 20 years I have ever been asked to use cloth diapers for a DCK. Honestly, I would actually prefer that ALL my families used cloth diapers so that I don't have so much waste with all the disposable ones but so far, I have only had just this one little guy use cloth.Last edited by Blackcat31; 10-12-2014, 07:58 AM.Comment
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