Cleaning newborn baby poo

maryjane01

My little bundle of joy is now 1 month old. I bought a load of tots bots cloth nappies when I was pregnant. I had read that when baby poos you conveniently flush away a disposable liner and they are really easy to clean. I didn't know that the poo would be a flouro yellow liquid and the liner would be useless(I have the tots bots liners).

I have had such a hard time getting the poo out of baby clothes when his nappies have leaked, and I have used the tots bots for one day a few weeks ago. Any pooey stuff I have soaked but then also had to scrub as the soaking did not seem to do a lot. I do not have the energy to scrub a few pooey nappies a day.

Are there any tricks for cleaning or any advice on liners? I would love to start using the reuseables soon.

Thanks

jackieglasgow

COngratulations. Now for the bad news. If you are solely breast feeding your bundle of joy, the nappies will be like that until their diet contains something other than breast milk. My youngest is seven now, and I used reuseables, but don't recognise the name of the nappy you are using. He was breastfed uniquely until almost six months, and I don't remember scrubbing any nappies at all (I was under the haze of PND at the time though!) I simply soaked them in Napisan and emptied and washed the contents of the bucket every 2 days, although I did use the disposable liners over the inner liners too, but as there was very little from in his poo it probably wasn't needed. Life is too short to be scrubbing nappies. Enjoy your baby, sling them in the WM, and forget about them.

Jackie X

mioliere

I know it doesn't help when it's been raining non-stop for weeks and weeks, but the best whitener for nappies is the sun; it acts as a natural bleach. Whenever you get the chance, hang them on the line to dry. Congratulations on the birth of your baby and well done for using cloth nappies - they last forever and can be used for other things like dusters once the baby no longer needs them.

OrkneyStar

I'd echo that napisan and the sun are the two best bleaching options.
I used tots bots (and other types) and they did get a bit stained with bf poo.....I tended to use a paper liner (a good thick more papery one instead of the shinier ones iyswim) on top of a fleece liner (you can make these from an old fleece), and not so much got out of nappy. You can use napisan in WM or soak (I preferred the first option) and it is pretty effective if not the most environmentally friendly.

Pssst

Put 'em in a big soup pot on the gas ( the same one you use for your cabbage and ribs) and boil them like we used to do in the good old days...ah the aroma...

Rockporkchop

My three are in Bumgenius V3 one size nappies. I have never soaked them, I just dry pail them with a few drops of tea tree oil and then shove them all in a 60 degree wash. The stains generally all come out in the wash, and the nappies regain their white colour if you hang them on the line in the sun.

I use Boots disposable nappy liners which are more like fabric than the usual paper liners and these are quite good. Don't fold the liners in half as it suggests though, put the whole sheet over the nappy without folding and it should catch most of the contents.

I also use washable wipes (cheekywipes.com) which can be thrown in with the nappy wash and are absolutely brilliant.

mambury

I used washables on both my kids so they are a bit stained but hey, who sees them?:D

I would recommend forgetting about the paper liners until baby is weaned and the poo is more solid. Use the fleece liners ( just a fleece rectangle really) as it helps to soak up the poo a bit as well.


Dry pail the nappies, then give them a 60 degree wash in non bio and line dry them. Every so often you can tumble them to make them fluffy again. NEVER use fabric conditioner as it coats the fibres and makes them repel water which defeats the point of using them as nappies! Tots Bots are great, comfy and absorbant but do use a fleece liner or two to help soak up the poo, and keeps the 'mustard' away from the nappy so helps to keep stains down a bit.

I agree that sunshine is the best stainremover you can find, and its FREE!!! Can't get more MSE than that!

Baby's clothes with get wet with wee, sick, food, milk and get stained. Don't worry about it, just enjoy your baby because before you know it he/she will be all grown up.


mambury

radiohelen

Aw hun.... STOP SCRUBBING ........ you just had a baby for goodness sake.

Yes bf poo is like yellow like mustard mixed with chicken korma and sticks like velcro to the inside of the tots bots but it's not so bad. My lo has tots bots and yes they get a bit stained but I dry pail them with tea tree oil, wash at 60 degrees, use non bio and white vinegar in the fabric conditioner dispenser and hang 'em up to dry. If the stain doesn't go first time, it fades after a couple of washes. You could try cutting up some fleece as a liner, I just use the paper ones - they fail but everything fails once in a while when it comes to baby poo.

Most importantly though, NO-ONE is going to stare at your nappies and say ooooh they've got stains on them.... if they do - send them from your home with a flea in their ear!

You wait till you get the beetroot and blackberry poo that I had last week! Now that was a stain!!!!!!!!:eek:

mambury

oh yeah....beetroot........thats a good one!

ktpie

This reminds me of my first few weeks of using reusables, I used to scrub the pooey nappies trying to get most of the poo out and soaking them in a bucket, until I realised that if I just shoved them in the washing maching as they were they came out fine. Now I dry pail and it is great, use a nappy bucket with a fairly tight fitting lid, mine is from mothercare, as you don't actually want the poo to dry out too much before you stick it in the wash, and use a net bag that lines the bucket, then you can just pick the whole lot out and put it in the wash.
Sometimes the poo will stain but after a while you stop worrying about it, it is on the nappies so most people won't see it anyway and if you manage to get them hung out in the sun the stains magically vanish anyway.
I think we started off with Tots Bots liners and didn't think much to them, others seem to be much bigger and these work much better, the liners really come into their own once the baby starts weaning.

Nitha

The sun again! Whilst I don't use reusable nappies, the sun has got some pretty hardcore spag bol stains off my son's white tops!