Attends nursery comes home with a dirty backside

onlyroz

I have never heard of a nursery giving you soiled nappies back. We occasionally get soiled clothing back in a sealed bag. Also the nurseries I have used have always cleaned with cotton wool and water but the parent can provide wipes and cream if they wish.

rising_from_the_ashes

OMG .... even as a non-parent, I'm horrified that a nursery isn't properly carrying out basic hygiene like ensuring the LO isn't properly clean before putting on a new nappy.

I don't know if I'm more shocked by that or that you've offered to provide wipes which has been refused... or that they give you the dirty nappies to take away!

Even if it's a charity and volunteers help out, there's no excuse for basic needs been carried out properly.

Could you speak to the person who runs it / is there an alternative nursery nearby?

Hope you manage to get something sorted!

susancs

This Nursery's procedures in regard to their legal obligations to see to the welfare of your child are not of a high enough standard I feel if he is coming home with a sore bottom. I always believe in putting things in writing so would email the Nursery Manager maybe along the lines below?

I would say something of the lines of
Dear X,
It is with regret that I have to write to you with regard to a welfare matter that is causing myself and my husband concern.

My child X has been sent home from your provision on several occassions after nappy changes due to soiling incidents, with an unclean bottom. This has resulted in a sore bottom. I have spoken to your staff and offered to supply a labelled packet of baby wipes for cleaning my child's bottom in the event of soiling, but was informed your policy for cleaning bottoms is to use water and the rather hard blue roll of paper used in most settings for lining or wiping changing mats and baby wipes cannot be used.

Soiled nappies and blue roll from all children are placed in individual nappy bags which are left indoors in children's bags for parents to collect and dispose of. I would have expected your setting to have suitable hygienic equipment for disposable of nappies, gloves, aprons and bottom cleaning items, rather than the current practice I and other Parents have experienced.

My child is very happy in your setting and I do find your staff have very high standards of care and learning in all other areas of practice, but do not feel that your policy and practice in regard to nappy changing is up to the high standards of care I have come to expect from your Nursery. I would be grateful if you could review your Continence and Nappy changing policy and practice.

Yours sincerely X.

Katinkka

rMy son used to go to a nursery with this policy of sending home kids with their soiled nappies. They used to store them outside in a plastic container and you had to rifle through to find your kids nappies! Sometimes I'd forget and they would still be there a couple of days later. Yes it stunk.

Also, I was in the habit of shopping after picking him up and wasn't keen on going into shops with smelly nappies hanging off my pushchaire, so it seems like me and all the other parents just shoved our nappies in the nearest public bin. There was always loads of bags hanging out or some on top...lol.

hellokittygal

This is horrendous treatment.

The nursery I work in is a private one. We have the sangenic bins to dispose nappies in, which is removed at the end of the day, tied up and placed in a black bin bag. This is then tied and put in the large disposal bin outside the back of the building.

Why on earth would parents want a soiled nappy returned?

We record all nappy changes on a sheet, so we can inform parents of the child's nappies at the end of the day.

This really sounds terrible. Nappies also shouldn't be changed by volunteers.

I would contact the manager, and if that doesn't help then definetly ofsted.

Mojisola

Has the nursery ever had an OFSTED inspection? I can't imagine that the inspectors failed to notice the smell from a row a backpacks holding soiled nappies.

Did the nursery make other arrangements on the day of the inspection? If so, it will show that they know they are not complying with the regulations.

tyllwyd

About the kitchen roll - if the nursery will only use kitchen roll plus water, have you tried supplying them with some Plenty? It doesn't fall apart with water, and it was recommended to us by a nurse at hospital for a similar use.

mildred1978

tyllwyd wrote: »

About the kitchen roll - if the nursery will only use kitchen roll plus water, have you tried supplying them with some Plenty? It doesn't fall apart with water, and it was recommended to us by a nurse at hospital for a similar use.

Do you t they misheard the tag line "one shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" on the advert?! :rotfl:

Sambucus_Nigra

Surely if you run a nursery you need to build nappy disposal into your business plan?

NBirdy

Oh dear OP, I feel for you and your son, on the one hand I'd change nurseries asap if that was happening to my child despite my requests for the use of wipes etc, on the other hand I realise you don't want to cause your little one the disruption of changing nurseries at a time when he's presumably got other stresses going on to cope with

Neither of my two have been in nappies whilst at pre-school but I'm quite certain that they disposed of used nappies on the premises, I've also never heard of handing back a dirty nappy to the parents! One of my children had a partial wee accident once and I was given back her wet knicks double-bagged in scented nappy sacks. The nursery had clean spare clothes/nappies/pull-ups although they preferred that you sent your child with a bag of whatever spares they might need.

The problem I have now is that my 3.5yr old has decided that as her older sibling (5yrs) now has to clean themself up after doing a poo at school, she wants to do the same. The nursery of course are quite happy to not have to clean her bottom, but as you can imagine, a 3yr old does NOT usually do a great job of cleaning poo off an area they can barely reach, let alone see! She has been getting sore, and almost always has a huge clump of toilet paper still wedged in her bot/bits/knicks when she comes home. I simply asked if someone could please check her as she still needs a little help (to check she's washed her hands properly :eek: if nothing else!) and it's been a lot better since.

I don't quite know what to suggest for you OP that hasn't already been suggested (definitely agree with the idea of a letter though), but I do wish you lots of luck with the potty-training stage