Soiled Underwear in Day Care Centers

[Persephone]

I think they should at least dump the poop out in the to potty.

And that won't put the dirty underwear in your washer would never be able to use cloth diapers.

[Daycare Mommy]

If a #2 accident happens in my daycare I would dump it out only if it's completely solid and not at all stuck on there. Otherwise I do not have time to mess with it. In my daycare, it goes into a bag along with any other soiled clothing and on the front porch for mom to deal with.

I have 6 other daycare children to be caring for. When an accident happens the provider is already taking time from the other kids to clean up the child, clean and sanitize the bathroom and any other areas that were hit. After that there is no time to be on stain patrol too.

Some questions for you though: Where would you propose the childcare provider rinse them out? The sink where the children wash their hands? And what are the children doing while she is pre-treating your laundry?

You aren't specific on how often, but it sounds like this is a frequently occurring thing. If this were my daycare, I would require that she be put back in pull-ups until she is accident free a set amount of time.

[Dordhs]

Soiled Underwear in Day Care Centers

Can someone please suggest some person who will stay and take care of 2 month old kid along with kids wife and grandmother.
Also please give me the rates if available.

[mac60]

can someone please suggest some person who will stay and take care of 2 month old kid along with kids wife and grandmother.
Also please give me the rates if available.

huh????????

[Daycare Mommy]

Can someone please suggest some person who will stay and take care of 2 month old kid along with kids wife and grandmother.
Also please give me the rates if available.

ROFL I think you are lost.. and what are you talking about? What an odd thread to be lost on too. haha

[mac60]

Maybe they got lost looking for the spray and wash to spray the "poop stains"?????? Sorry,

[Childminder]

Michigan's Rules (Read the Last Line)

R 400.1923 Diapering and toilet learning.
Rule 23. (1) Diapering of infants and toddlers shall only occur in a designated changing area.
(2) The designated changing area shall comply with all of the following:
(a) Be used exclusively for changing wet or soiled diapers or underwear.
(b) Be located away from food preparation and meal service areas.
(c) Have access to a hand washing sink that is not used for food preparation.
(d) Have a nonabsorbent, easily sanitized surface with a changing pad between the child and the surface.
(e) Be cleaned and sanitized after each use.
(f) Have diapering/changing supplies within easy reach.
(g) Have a plastic-lined, tightly covered container exclusively for disposable diapers and diapering supplies that shall be emptied and sanitized at the end of each day.
(3) Diapers or training pants shall be changed when wet or soiled.
(4) Only single use disposable wipes or other single use cleaning cloths shall be used to clean a child during the diapering or toileting process.
(5) If cloth diapers/training pants are provided by the parent, then soiled diapers/training pants shall be placed in an individual, securely tied plastic bag and returned to the parent at the end of the day.
(6) Toilet learning shall be planned cooperatively between the parent and the caregiver so that the toilet routine established is consistent.
(7) If toilet learning equipment, such as potty chairs and modified toilet seats, are used, then the following shall apply:
(a) They shall be able to be easily cleaned and sanitized.
(b) Potty chairs shall be emptied, rinsed, and sanitized after each use.
(8) If disposable gloves are used, then they shall only be used once for a specific child and be removed and disposed of in a safe and sanitary manner immediately after each diaper change.

R 400.1923 (5) Diapering and toilet learning.
(5) If cloth diapers/training pants are provided by the parent, then
soiled diapers/training pants shall be placed in an individual,
securely tied plastic bag and returned to the parent at the end of
the day.
Rationale Containing and minimizing the handling of soiled diapers reduces the
chance that other surfaces are contaminated which prevents the spread
of infectious disease and the transmission of germs.
Technical
Assistance
The contents of a soiled cloth diaper may be dumped but the diaper
must not be rinsed.

[nannyde]

If a kid poops their pants at my house they go back into diapers until they are accident free for two weeks. I don't deal with kids being pee trained but not poop trained. It has to be both.

I don't have this happen but once every five-7 years or so. I don't switch kids out of diapers until I KNOW they are ready. They have to show me weeks of telling me they have to go before they have to go and doing both pee and poop before the unders come on.

I am VERY strict about wearing protection until they are completely ready to go into undies. It's been three years since I've even had a pee accident here. It's been seven years since I've had a poop accident. I don't want my carpet ruined to save the parents a dollar or two in diapers a day and I won't pay for staff time to clean poopy underwear and clean up the kid.

Sounds to me like the kid still isn't potty trained.

[Unregistered]

This is kind of funny in a way.
I was reading on another board where the parents were angry because a daycare staff member was busy with a child who had soiled themselves in the bathroom and their child was hurt in an altercation with another 4 year old (so this was an potty accident in a 4 year old room). They felt that the teacher was neglecting the other kids while she was cleaning up the accident child. I have been in that situation while working in a center. I was in the poop smeared bathroom with a poop smeared 4 year old listening to the other kids and peeking out the door while trying to keep little Bobby from stepping in any more of his own feces. Everything that had poop on it went into a bag, so everything that kid was wearing. Their lucky he didn't end up in the bag. No one was hurt except my nose and stomach, but I was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

So, I wonder how upset OP would have been if their child had been hurt while the staff had been cleaning out poopy underwear.

I really think some parents just have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that their child is not the only and most important child in the world. Once they take them somewhere else and introduce them into a room with 10 other most important children in the world, they are not going to get the attention their parents think they "deserve".

[melskids]

i'm in NY and i was told NOT to rinse out poopy under wear or cloth diapers. it is to go in a bag and be sent home.

now, if it is formed, i will try and dump it in the toilet

i think this rule is stupid cause if a child gets poop or puke on MY blanket or whatever, that obviously is going in my washer, so why can't the poopy/ puked on clothes as well? what happens when they puke on MY carpet? i'm surely not going to be rolling that up and throwing it away.....

[Daycare Mommy]

i think this rule is stupid cause if a child gets poop or puke on MY blanket or whatever, that obviously is going in my washer, so why can't the poopy/ puked on clothes as well? what happens when they puke on MY carpet? i'm surely not going to be rolling that up and throwing it away.....

Yeah, but the amount of poop on blanket vs. poop in underwear is, I'm sure, a big difference. And after a short run I did with cloth diapers. I realized that the washing machine doesn't get things as clean as I thought it did and "things" get left behind in the machine or stick to whatever you're washing. Ew, ew, ew!!!

I definitely don't understand why anyone would want to mess with another person's child's poo any more than they have to to get the child cleaned and ready to go with the rest of their day. Parent's miss enough when their child is in daycare. Let them share in the joy of helping out with the occasional clean-up. Participating in the aftermath of accidents may help certain parents (original poster) to realize their children aren't potty trained after all and should be in pullups until the #2 accidents have stopped.

[melskids]

Yeah, but the amount of poop on blanket vs. poop in underwear is, I'm sure, a big difference. And after a short run I did with cloth diapers. I realized that the washing machine doesn't get things as clean as I thought it did and "things" get left behind in the machine or stick to whatever you're washing. Ew, ew, ew!!!

I definitely don't understand why anyone would want to mess with another person's child's poo any more than they have to to get the child cleaned and ready to go with the rest of their day. Parent's miss enough when their child is in daycare. Let them share in the joy of helping out with the occasional clean-up. Participating in the aftermath of accidents may help certain parents (original poster) to realize their children aren't potty trained after all and should be in pullups until the #2 accidents have stopped.

i agree the child is obviously not potty trained if it happens again and again

[Crystal]

while I posted that I would clean them, and have in the past, it has been YEARS since this was an issue for me. I don't potty train until kids are fully ready to train. I typically have a child trained in less than two days.

If I had to clean them, I would dump it in the toilet, run it through the wash BY ITSELF, certainly not with my own families clothing, then run the washer empty with bleach. Pretty simple.

[Carole's Daycare]

I actually refused care to a family with an older almost 4 yr old boy who still pooped his pants. They were fired from a previous daycare for that, amongst other- behavioral issues. I just don't have time to dedicate to one child with that kind of mess, and I don't want the germs and mess. I might dump a formed poo in the pot- but the whole mess goes in a bag and out to the porch to go home. I simply wont risk the safetyof other kids while dealing with the extensive cleanup of a child who messes like that.

[kpa0627]

In Kansas we are not to rinse out underwear either. It's unsanitary to rinse it out in the sink so we are to put it in a bag and send it home the way it is. It might be frustrating for the parents but it's one of our rules we have to follow.