[blparent] another cloth diaper question

[Leanne Merren]

Hi Scott,
We bought a bum genius diaper sprayer when we bought our first set of 
diapers.  It hooked easily to the water spicket behind the toilet.  You can 
adjust the pressure to make it spray harder or softer, and you'll probably 
have to play around with it a bit to get it just right.  I have used the 
flushable liners, but I don't actually prefer them.  They stuck to my little 
girl's bottom and girly parts and it just looked uncomfortable to me. 
Imagine having damp toilet paper stuck to your bottom all day. lol  That's 
basically what it looked like to me.  They're very clingy.  I use them if I 
have to, if I'm going to be somewhere for a couple of days where I won't 
have my sprayer, but otherwise I don't use them.  My husband and I have both 
gotten pretty comfortable with spraying off the diapers.  I prefer to spray 
off the pockets and fitteds over the prefolds, because you don't know where 
you're going to find it on the prefold, whereas with the pockets and fitteds 
it's all where it should be. (well, usually, lol)  When we're done spraying 
the diapers, we use chlorox wipes to clean up the floor and the rim of the 
toilet in case we've made a mess.  I usually hold the diaper down inside the 
toilet bowl though, and I spray the water down the diaper so it runs into 
the bowl.  I don't usually get sprayed or have much escape unless I'm in a 
hurry and I'm not concentrating well on where I'm aiming.  It will take 
practice, but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it.
Good luck.
Leanne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Lawlor" <sklawlor at mac.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:33 PM
Subject: [blparent] another cloth diaper question


> Hello.
>
> I have another question for those of you who use cloth diapers.
>
> We've decided that this is the way we're going to go and my question is a 
> bit graphic so hopefully that's okay.
>
> I've heard that people use these sprayers to clean off the diapers in the 
> toilet and Cindy is concerned that this might be a bit problematic since 
> first the toilet is a pretty small space anyway and admittedly my spraying 
> aim probably isn't the best so she's concerned that if I did this it might 
> create more of a mess in some instances so I was wondering is there a way 
> to accomplish this without the potential of creating a worse problem?
>
> We saw these flushable layovers that you can just dump off the diaper into 
> the toilet and then the problem should be resolved but I want to try to do 
> things that will minimize her role in having to clean up after any of that 
> kind of thing where possible.
>
> This will be my first baby to raise so I'm with no experience at all. lol.
>
> Thanks for the info and help.
>
> Scott
>
>
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