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Topic: how do you dispose of
Posted By: myfullhouse
Subject: how do you dispose of
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 9:52pm
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your disposables, especially when you are at someone else's house?
I use cloth so obviously take them home, I suppose I find it strange that others don't take their disposables home, they always want to leave them at my place. I also find it strange that they don't 'empty' dirty nappies into the loo before they bundle them up and throw them out. And the thing that gets to me the most is that they put them in people's kitchen rubbish bin, wouldn't that be like me putting used toilet paper in there? Personally I find it really unhygenic. Once when the il's were visiting with my nephew I found they had left a dirty nappy on my kitchen bench!  And they used to use their kitchen table as a change table!
I don't mean to offend/upset anyone, but I just can't understand it. Maybe I am the one with the problem since so many people seem to do it  ------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 9:54pm
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even when i used disposables i would take them with me. I dont understand it either! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Jelly
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 10:07pm
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I can't say where I leave my nappies, since I don't have a bum to change yet, but... On your kitchen bench?! That is foul ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: angel4
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 10:08pm
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i normally use cloth and take them home with me but even when we use disposables i take them home except when im at a friends house who uses disposables all the time then i take it out to their big rubbish bin outside. Same as when im at my mums house, i take it out to the outside bin. Who wants a stinky nappy in their kitchen where you prepare food I think it is gross to put it in the kitchen bin.
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Posted By: FreeSpirit
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 10:19pm
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When I'm using throw-aways I take a couple of magic blue bags with me and seal the used ones up and put them back in my handbag until I get to the car, where they get tranferred into my car's junk bag, which goes straight in the bin when I get home. ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 10:26pm
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Where do I put them ? in a plastic bag , that goes in my boot , that goes in a black sac outside .
But I usually use cloth , so they go into a bag, into my baby bag and into the wash (and onto the line *cough* drier *cough* ) ------------- 
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 10:29pm
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maybe it's just the people I know or am related to that put them in the kitchen bin then! ------------- Lindsey
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Posted By: Mamma2N
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 10:36pm
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I don't understand it either - We use cloth and haven't used disposables since she was a newbie but even then I would never expect someone else to dispose of them.
I find it quite foul that some people don't empty the 'contents' into the loo either 
The worst experience I've had is in a cafe I used to work in, a father changed his sons nappy in the corner of the dining room and if that wasn't bad enough, as I was walking past, he tried to hand the used nappy to me Thankfully we didn't dispose of used nappies and I told him as much.
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Posted By: HippyMama
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 10:39pm
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When I was using sposies in the early days (legs too skinny for the cloth we had), if we were out I would always ask first (as to whether I could ditch it and where) and thus avoid any problems - I had those blue bags too so if it was a no go for leaving it behind, I'd bag it and take it home.
As for emptying the contents out, I'm assuming we are talking about the poo of babies who are eating and not breastfed-only baby poo  ------------- Mama to two earth walkers & two angels. Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. ~ Kittie Franz Next Slingbabies! Meet - Friday 4th May !! |
Posted By: ?Lolly?
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 11:05pm
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I'm uing cloth so it comes home with us. But when I am using disposables I always ask if they have a bin I can put into. I would nover just biff poop into there kitchen rubbish. And yeah, bf'd baby poop isn't coming out of a nappy without a fight. ------------- Captain Chaos (5) & the Trouble Monsters (2!) 
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Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 07 December 2009 at 11:09pm
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When we're out and about, I take them home. They go straight into the kitchen bin in nice blue smelly bags that dont let the poo smell out :D We dont have an outside bin, It all goes into the bin by my washing machine (which is in the back of the kitchen) and then the bag is emptied every 2nd day.. reminds me, rubbish night tonight! I dont think theres anything wrong with putting them in the bin in there as long as they're in a bag to get rid of odours and the bin is emptied frequently. ------------- Alex, Thomas and Lily http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 12:54am
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I remember hosting a coffee group when C was still tiny and someone left a dirty nappy in our bathroom bin for me to find later that night EXTRA gross as we were living in an apartment at the time with a RUBBISH CHUTE and the lady who did it lived in the same condo so she should have known better!
We use sposies and if we're at friends' places I always ask where I can change C (usually in a spare room if they don't have kids of their own) and where they'd like me to put the used nappy - which is always tied up in one of those "nice" smelling nappy bags! I would never just leave one in someone's kitchen bin without saying anything. And definitely not on the kitchen bench! ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 4:10am
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We have the rule that people take them home.
We use cloth nappies but most of our friends are using sposies. I figure that i don't leave stinky nappies at their houses so why should I deal with their stinky nappies at mine - especially when we don't have our own to deal with in that respect! And most people that use disposables don't flush poos in the toilet i think. I have only met one that does in all my time - even though the packs do actually recommend it ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 7:56am
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Yea but you try scraping some of the mess out of a sposie to flush *puke* ------------- Alex, Thomas and Lily http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 8:10am
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I don't have a problem with people putting sposies in my bin (which is in my kitchen), they are normally wrapped up and the bin has a lid on it and is emptied frequently. If a kid has done a real stinky one then most of my friends would automatically go stick it in the wheelie bin outside instead, I wouldn't expect them to take a really foul nappy home with them with them stinking out their nappy bag and car, that is even grosser and unnecessary when we have a bin right here.
If I use sposies when out I mostly take them home, cos I have the wet bag with me for the cloth ones so it's not hassle to parcel up a sposie and take it home, but sometimes if I'm somewhere where they also use sposies I will just ask if I can chuck it in their bin. I'm guilty of not always emptying out sposies as well, Spencer mostly does ones that I have to rinse off the cloth nappies so no way would I get them off the sposies, but if it is a rolly offy then I tip it in the loo. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 8:16am
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We use sposies at night for the boys and when we go to the bach, I always try and take as much off the nappy as possible and flush it rather than having it stink out the bin. This is obviously alot easier with Jack than it is with Ben. ------------- Lindsey
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 8:31am
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i never empty E's nappies..partly cause he always has soft nappies adn always has but also cause i just don't really.. habit i guess..never did it at work and changed a million there so guess i got in the habit?
I always ask at someone else's house..and the doctor nearly made me take it home.. but yeah i would much rather they put it in our nappy bin and leave it at my house than travel all the way home with that smell in their car:( ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: Mrs_B
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 9:48am
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I always take nappies home with me unless they offer their rubbish bin. Don't empty contents down the toilet either probably cos you can't when they are little as BF poo is so squishy and soaks into the nappy so you just get use to rolling them up in a bundle. Habit I guess.
I don't mind others leaving their dirty nappies here as they all just go in the big bin outside. What I do have an issue with is people who change their kids nappy right where people are eating i.e on the dining room floor. I always take Corban to the bathroom at other peoples houses (with the exception of coffee group) and change him on the floor.
The other day I was at a playgroup and was sitting on the floor feeding Corban and this lady changed her baby's pooey nappy right beside me on the side Corban was feeding, he may be a baby but he can still smell and that was enough to put anyone off there lunch! -------------  
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 10:05am
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When my friend stayed with her baby she used nappy bags, and asked me if it was ok to put them in the bin first, of course it was ok that's what the rubbish bin is for, I'd be more disgusted in her having to carry a days worth of nappies home in the car for 8 hours yuck That's revolting Mrs_B, there's a reason why the toilet and the kitchen are at least 2 doors away from each other, changing nappies should be anywhere near where you eat.
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Posted By: JessDub
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 10:49am
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Usually I will just put DS' disposable in one of those nappy sacks and take it home because I don't like to assume that my host wants a used nappy in their bin.
Used nappies go into our outside bin or into the kitchen bin which is emptied daily and nowhere near any food handling surfaces. I can't imagine scraping my son's soft poop out of his disposable into the loo. For one, I'd need some kind of sh!t stick for that which seems really unhygienic. Plus all that extra handling is not worth thinking about... yuck. ------------- 
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 10:50am
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You know what....TBH... I never realised that you were supposed to empty out disposibles when I had Alia. I didn't realise until I think I read a packet when Cooper was little.
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Posted By: Mamma2N
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 10:52am
I do it with DD's cloth nappies - just use toilet paper to get the majority of it out. Easy peasy! 
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JessDub wrote:Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 10:58am
And yet parents rooms are set up with the changing tables right beside the sink and microwave to mix babies bottles etc... food for thought (pun intended  )------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003  
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 11:16am
Really I've never been in parents rooms, had no idea. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: AzzaNZ
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 12:23pm
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I ask where I should change her, nappies are bagged in scented nappy bags and then put in the bin wherever that might be.
I've never emptied the contents of her nappy into the toilet - the thought of how to unstick it from the nappy first makes me
My bin is emptied regularly so I wouldnt have any problem with someone putting a dirty nappy in it. I wouldnt want them changing the child in the kitchen or dining room though. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: linda
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 12:30pm
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Have never disposed of the poo's in the loo. Never really thought about it and its not something I'm going to start doing.
As for disposing the nappy, if I was at friends I always ask where they would like it to go (although know now where they like it go) and if I don't know them well will ask or take it home. If the nappy is just wet from wees then am ok with it going in the kitchen bin but our change table is in the lounge and have a nappy bin there so that is where most people put there nappies. Guess the key is to know your friends and know what there preference is. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: SquishysMum
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 1:14pm
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Our wet nappies go in the kitchen bin - like cuppatea it has a lid and is emptied frequently. Poo nappies - if it's solid (most of the time!) the poo is rolled off into the loo, but if it's too squishy I leave it, and they go into the outside bin.
When out I either put them in the outside bin (if I've spied it), or take it home. |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 1:32pm
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I usually take the dirty nappy home with me, I put them ino those little blue bags first.
I never scrape the poo off the sposie and then bin it Yuck. Just goes into a blue bag then in the outside bin.------------- |
Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 1:33pm
We use cloth too so when we're out they go into a bag and come home. Friends at coffee group use disposables and no one has ever left one at my house, but I wouldn't mind them putting it in the outside bin (I'm not the one who puts the rubbish out  ).
Oh and if we're at someone else's house, I change Chelsea in the lounge - we have a portable change mat that is kept in the nappy bag (and washed if she wees on it of course, which she does everytime lol) so that the floor is safe ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 4:24pm
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Well I must be one gross lady then. I have never ever emptied a disposable before into the loo before. First of all I think it will be a messier job to try and get some off into the toilet ect. (breastfed babies)
Second I do put it in a scented bag into a seperate bin that gets emptied quite regulary but have also put it into the kitchen bin. I take nappies home unless that mom is also using disposables and then they usually tell me before I even ask, otherwise it goes in a scented bag and then gets disposed of at home. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 6:46pm
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When we use cloth we obviously take them home with us. I put them in a scented blue bag. And if we are using disposals and are at other peoples places we bring them home unless they offer to get rid of it for us. I never ask.
As for scraping off poos, I dont on disposals (even though you are supposed to get rid of bodily fluids before putting it in the bin) but I do rinse off poos on our cloth naps under the tap in the laundry. ------------- Our Angel July 08  Gone but not forgotten
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Posted By: blondy
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 7:39pm
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We do cloth almost all the time, even when out, and I guess I'm so in the habit of disposing poo into the loo that when we do use a sposie, i do the same. The thought of throwing poo into the already disgusting rubbish tips we have (have you been to one lately - it's rather foul! ) makes me feel ill TBH. Obviously when Nat was BF only, it was impossible to scrape the poo of sposies, as I would rinse the cloth nappies. But I honestly think there's no real excuse to not scrape solid poo off a nappy before throwing it away. (and being grossed out isn't really a good excuse! ) Toilet paper works fine for the most part, and it's not like you aren't going to wash your hands after anyway - it's just poo!
I would ask if I could leave a sposie if it was someone I knew already used sposies and had an outside bin for them, but otherwise I'd take it home (probably in my cloth wetbag). -------------  
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Posted By: Mamma2N
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 7:44pm
 
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Posted By: hannibal
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 9:20pm
| I take them home - I don't expect friends to get rid of them for me. If we are in town I will normally shoot home to change her (we are a couple of mins from town), I for some reason hate baby changing rooms with a passion - I don't think they are set up well - one of the only times I used I was changing a nappy (poos) and another lady was sitting in the corner breast feeding! I don't scrape the poo off - didn't realise you should, and we do put them in the kitchen bin unless they are really bad and them they go straight to the wheelie bin. Our bin is emptied regularly thru the day. And it is disgusted when people change them on the kitchen table eeeee |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 08 December 2009 at 10:51pm
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It depends on the friend I am visiting. Once I have been given the "go ahead" to leave my sposies I will. One friend has a sangenic so I use that and the other has a dedicated nappy bin and I use that. I always drop poos in the loo (if they are that way inclined IYKWIM).
At other peoples' houses I assume I am taking it away with me unless they offer their bin. |
Posted By: Delli
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 11:19am
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Well, you learn something new everyday!
I didn't know you were supposed to scrape poop into the toilet when using disposables.... I kinda thought that was the whole point of disposables - that they were convenient and you had to deal with minimum mess. Oops. But we use cloth all of the time anyway - so I take them home with me (and wash off poop in the laundry sink under the tap). If we have to use a disposable - then I take that home with me as well. Both of them go into little nappy bags so that the smell, moisture and poop can be kept separate from the rest of the nappy bag. Or if we are staying at someone's house for an extended period of time the sposies would go in the bin outside, not inside. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: BerryBliss
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 2:33pm
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I use cloth during the day on Tessa so obviously that will come home, sposies at night and they don't get the poo scraped from them just go straight into the sangenic. If people change their kids here i get them to put it in the bin. I don't put nappies in the kitchen bin, just doesn't seem right but hey i know plenty of parents that do and thats fine with me.
As for the changing the kids on the kitchen bench thats just wrong
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 3:35pm
you arent the only one though... I think it disgusting that anyone would want to roll up a huge poo in a piece of plastic and stuff that wont biodegrade or allow whats in it to break down properly either... it is funny that it says on the packs not to dispose of the contents with the nappy, yet no one reads that . I find it particularly disgusting that childcare centres wouldnt flush solid waste and have that stench hanging around! i cringe anytime i see a disposable on the side of the road or left in a carpark or a beach or anywhere! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: sadie
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 3:52pm
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We use sposies here, which generally get rolled up (contents intact) and put in the kitchen bin. Smelly ones are put into scented nappy sacks first.
We don't have an outside bin as we live in ever so helpful Northland so we have to buy rubbish bags. These fit in our kitchen bin, and it is changed every 2-3 days. It's never really crossed my mind to flush solid contents down the toilet. I'd be reluctant to start that now as we are on tank water and are trying to use as little water as possible at the moment as it's been so dry lately. Thus we don't flush the toilet after each use unless necessary! Gross, I know, but beats running out of water at the beginning of summer. When out and about, I will always take my dirty nappies home with me, unless an alternative is offered. If people come here, I offer to put their nappies in our bin if they want. Who changes on the kitchen table??
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 3:55pm
the most hygienic place for sh*t is the toilet! have you thought about how unhygienic it is to have it in our landfill, on the back of rubbish trucks, sitting out on the road in the rubbish bag (where dogs and whatever else can get it).? ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: blondy
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 4:19pm
I know! At one of the daycare places I looked at for Natalie, I asked about whether they would be open to using cloth nappies, and she looked at me in horror and said how unhygenic it was!  A pile of pooey nappies baking away in plastic bags is far more unhygenic to me than a couple of cloth nappies in a wetbag, with the poo down the loo
We do still use sposies from time to time, so I'm not anti-them....but they just take so long to break down at the refuse stations, especially when wrapped in another layer of plastic! If we have a pooey sposie (that I've scraped out as much as possible ), I still try and avoid using plastic bags, because that greatly increases the time the nappy takes to break down.-------------
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Posted By: Blankney94
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 4:29pm
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OMG I can't believe some of the horror stories. I always wrap the nappy inside an old supermarket bag and take home for disposal. We have a proper nappy disposal bin in Brooke's bedroom. It's meant to kill all the odours etc. But boy do I regret the time I let my sister in law put my two year old nephew's nappy in there! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: KazS
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 6:29pm
Makes me happy that my daughters daycare was happy to have kids in cloth (even if my DD isnt in them) - they were more than happy to accomodate if i wished to have her in cloth |
Posted By: JessDub
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 6:32pm
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the most hygienic place for sh*t is the toilet! have you thought about how unhygienic it is to have it in our landfill, on the back of rubbish trucks, sitting out on the road in the rubbish bag (where dogs and whatever else can get it).?
There are plenty of other unhygienic things other than poo in the rubbish; decomposing food scraps including meat, sanitary items etc. -------------
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 6:32pm
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must be lucky with E's preschool even though we dont use cloth most kids there do and they use cloth wipes etc .. so i assume they put poo in the loo..
I'd say 95% of people i know who use sposies don't scrape it into the loo.. i never have either.. though as i said before i might if his were solid enough.. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 8:38pm
yep i agree... and i generally dont put that stuff in my rubbish either! sh*t - IMO - though is still more unhygienic than food scraps! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 9:41pm
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Gosh I didn't realise I would cause such a discussion, was really just venting a bit and only thought 1 or 2 people would reply!! ------------- Lindsey
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 9:44pm
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I'm guilty of not putting poo in the toilet from a sposie - we use 2 per day (one for each kid overnight) so I do get lazy in the morning when they each go in it.
I never leave my sposies behind unless someone says its OK when I'm going to put it in my bag. I do at mums because she has an outside bin and she says its fine. I'll put a wet nappy (no poo) in the kitchen bin there if she's just about to take it out, but she tells me to, I never just assume. Jack's DC allows cloth but as far as I'm aware we're the only family using them. I would rather clean cloth nappies all day than have a stinking bin full of nappies - especially in summer in the heat
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 10:23pm
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But interestingly most people are happy to flush condoms and tampons down the toilet....they have to be filtered out of the waste water system and trucked to the landfill. Some of the small and thin items such as cotton bud sticks, panty liners and condoms escape. They end up on the beaches. No filter can stop them...yuck!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 10:38pm
Yep and not to mention that some poor guy at the smaller sewage treatment works normally has to shovel it himself into a skip and hose off the filters been there seen that. Kindly declined his offer of a cup of tea as well -------------
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Posted By: Joscia
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 9:53am
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I can't believe people put condoms and tampons in the loo. That's just SO disgusting!!! ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 10:52am
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Some people must go through a lot of rubbish if they are emptying their bins every day...
Why would a child care refuse to change cloth nappies, that is so lame. What reason could they possibly have that would be valid. ------------- 
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 11:25am
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Wow, I never knew or even thought about flushing poos from a sposie. Glad I read this thread, will definately make sure I do that while we use disposables.
My Dad is a plumber and you should hear the stories about what people think they can flush. There was that Ausie movie a while back about it and Dad reckoned it was right on the money for accuracy. Yuck -------------  
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 11:25am
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natscats- its often in their policy.. mostly hygiene reasons(dont hassle me I'm not saying i agree with it:) ) I guess too when like in one of my old jobs you are changing every nappy all day for a week cloth takes a lot longer to change:) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 1:32pm
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Some places its about not being able to hygienically store them - but we are allowed to just take a bucket (2 kids so a lot of nappies) with a lid and take that to and from DC each day.
KA - I find it takes longer to change a sposie than cloth (our cloth ones are just like disposables) as they fit around a little bum a lot better. But I don't have too much experience with sposies so I guess thats why. |
Posted By: MrsMc
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 2:17pm
| at work we have a sangenic thingy. we are open to using cloth if thats what the parents want, but out change room is TINY so no space to have buckets etc so we just have to send the dirty cloth nappy home in a plastic bag. im glad im not the one opening up those bags at the end of the day and i guess thats why most parents dont bother which is sad, id love to be able to provide that service, |
Posted By: KazS
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 4:17pm
But interestingly most people are happy to flush condoms and tampons down the toilet....they have to be filtered out of the waste water system and trucked to the landfill. Some of the small and thin items such as cotton bud sticks, panty liners and condoms escape. They end up on the beaches. No filter can stop them...yuck!!! [/QUOTE]Sorry i dont mean to be picky but i see you live in Auckland - chances are your wastewater is treated at the Mangere treatment plant and things like condoms and cotton buds dont escape from their system and into the beach - they have a world class treatment system so if you are seeing them on beaches etc it is getting there though other means more than likely (ie somehow going down the stormwater system and onto the beach) I work in the water and waste industry |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 4:28pm
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kazS thats good to know! thanks... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 11 December 2009 at 4:45pm
How is it less hygenic to have nappies being taken home every day compared to a giant skip full of crappy nappies sitting outside! (used to live next to a day care centre...) Also I can understand that flat nappies take longer to change (probbly not for people who are used to them) but I would have thought that most cloth users would use mcns and dunno how that could be slower to put on. -------------
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 11 December 2009 at 6:45pm
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Natscats, whenever a daycare centre refuses cloth they always use hygiene as their reason, as four_eyes said she doesn't agree with it but that is the excuse that is used. All having said that all the places I visited said yes to cloth so it's not like they are all saying no.
Yep mcn would take the same time, I use a mix of mcn and sposies and they take the same time. But if you weren't use to cloth, or never seen an mcn you might think they would take ages (another incorrect reason for daycare centres saying no). I did use to have mcn's that had to be stuffed though and that was time consuming when compared to just using a sposies, but then parents would prestuff them for the daycare centres anyway. -------------
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Posted By: MrsMc
Date Posted: 12 December 2009 at 9:38am
| i dont see how mcns are hard, and even if someone wanted to use prefolds good for them we would just have to learn. the parents that have used mcns hapve always re stuffed them so i dont have experience with the inners but again im sure we could learn. we follow a philosophy where lots of time is taken during care times so it already takes 5-10min to change each child, im sure you could get a clkoth nappy on in that time |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 12 December 2009 at 3:14pm
| Our coth nappies have to MCN's and pre-stuffed which I think is fair enough. When I first asked about it, they looked in horror until I showed them how easy it was (just like a disposable) and they were quite happy with that. And even though we're the only ones in the whole DC using cloth, they are still quite happy for us to keep using them. |