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MSE help needed for first baby

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  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
    My children must have had very sticky poo as try as I might I couldn't clean it off with warm water :eek:

    Must have been feeding them treacle in their bottles then! Most adults can manage to clean fresh poo off themselves with just loo roll after all, so if the nappy is being changed quickly, can't see why warm water and a flannel wipe wouldn't work easily. If they've been sitting in it for a while though (as can happen sometimes) then I agree perhaps a spot of soap might also be needed, but that would only be now and again hopefully not every change.
  • OrkneyStar
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    Nicki wrote: »
    My children must have had very sticky poo as try as I might I couldn't clean it off with warm water :eek: my DD got nappy rash frequently so it would have been good if I could have avoided the wipes altogether
    Must have been feeding them treacle in their bottles then! Most adults can manage to clean fresh poo off themselves with just loo roll after all, so if the nappy is being changed quickly, can't see why warm water and a flannel wipe wouldn't work easily. If they've been sitting in it for a while though (as can happen sometimes) then I agree perhaps a spot of soap might also be needed, but that would only be now and again hopefully not every change.
    Actually breast fed poo can be very sticky, and as for the initial meconium well, sticky is not the word. Even changing nappies immediately after a 'deposit' it is sometimes quite hard to get it all off!
    I sometimes used disposable wipes and sometimes reusable wipes with either water or a water/oil/shampoo solution- I'd say disposable wipes worked better than water/reusable wipe, with the water/oil/shampoo somewhere in the middle.
    Ermutigung wirkt immer besser als Verurteilung.
    Encouragement always works better than judgement.

  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
    My two were breast fed too. The first few poos were black and tar like but after that they were quite soft and easy to clean off - if its not too much info they were like thinned down peanut butter in consistency.

    Perhaps it was you who was eating the treacle though if your kids produced something less removable ;)

    Hope mine this time round are still cleanable, but even if not, can still use washable wipes for wet bums, and for hands and faces (not in that order, or the same wipe!) which would cut down a lot on the number of disposables needed.
  • OrkneyStar
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    edited 30 June 2009 at 4:58PM
    Nicki wrote: »
    My two were breast fed too. The first few poos were black and tar like but after that they were quite soft and easy to clean off - if its not too much info they were like thinned down peanut butter in consistency.

    Perhaps it was you who was eating the treacle though if your kids produced something less removable ;)

    Hope mine this time round are still cleanable, but even if not, can still use washable wipes for wet bums, and for hands and faces (not in that order, or the same wipe!) which would cut down a lot on the number of disposables needed.
    I hate treacle.
    My DS's poos were normal, according to our Doctor (who has seen lots of poo and has 2 kids of his own!).
    I think we should stop on the 'my poos were better than your poos debate' lol!
    I get your point on cleaning poo but some babies just do yuckier poos than others I think!
    Also wipes are a lot easier on the go!
    Ermutigung wirkt immer besser als Verurteilung.
    Encouragement always works better than judgement.

  • skintchick
    skintchick Posts: 15,114 Forumite
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    So if you don;t have wipes, how DO you get the meconium poo off? I'm guessing that Cif isn;t allowed! :p
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  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
    skintchick wrote: »
    So if you don;t have wipes, how DO you get the meconium poo off? I'm guessing that Cif isn;t allowed! :p

    if you have a hospital birth (and are very very lucky) the midwives will do it for you :p:p

    otherwise, you work on the basis that the first few nappy changes will take about 5 times as long as any subsequent ones.
  • OrkneyStar
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    skintchick wrote: »
    So if you don;t have wipes, how DO you get the meconium poo off? I'm guessing that Cif isn;t allowed! :p
    Well I was in hosp for 5 days after DS born (CS, and had to go to Aberdeen) so had no choice but to do as Midwives told us and use disposable nappies and warm water/cotton wool to wash. As soon as I got home I got him I got him into reusables (and eventually reusable liners) and used wipes when needed! Never needed to resort to Cif, but well I did consider a brillo pad on ocassion :eek: (lol, kidding!).
    Nicki wrote: »
    if you have a hospital birth (and are very very lucky) the midwives will do it for you :p:p

    otherwise, you work on the basis that the first few nappy changes will take about 5 times as long as any subsequent ones.
    Midwives do it for me....well one of the auxilliaries did take his nappy off for me, but then she left him there and I had to finish it. I think they changed 2 or 3 nappies for me when I was recovering from the spinal, but DH did most of the helping tbh.
    Ermutigung wirkt immer besser als Verurteilung.
    Encouragement always works better than judgement.

  • skintchick
    skintchick Posts: 15,114 Forumite
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    SO if I have to go into hospital can I not take my washable nappies with me? sorry to divert the thread. But I am planning a home birth so if I go in it will be as an emergency and I wasn;t planning on buying any disposable nappies.
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  • OrkneyStar
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    skintchick wrote: »
    SO if I have to go into hospital can I not take my washable nappies with me? sorry to divert the thread. But I am planning a home birth so if I go in it will be as an emergency and I wasn;t planning on buying any disposable nappies.
    Depends on the hospital.
    Our local one has reusables for mums to use when they are there.
    I ended up in Aberdeen and, at that time (2007), their policy was disposables.
    You will be tired for the first few days anyway, so noone would blame you for using sposies (Eco ones if you want) for the first week or so, and it saves washing meconium off too!
    All the best.
    Ermutigung wirkt immer besser als Verurteilung.
    Encouragement always works better than judgement.

  • elf06
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    I was in the RAH in Glasgow and wasnt allowed to take my reusables with me. Saying that it was my local hospital who told me that (opted for a different hospital to my local) and I had already fallen out with one of the midwives who told me that reusables were no good :eek:
    We argued slightly as neither of us had had any previous experience with them but she finally admitted that they were not at all what she had expected!! (Had to take mine in to the antenatal classes to prove my point)
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