[blparent] another cloth diaper question

[Scott Lawlor]

She's planning to breastfeed for at least the first 6 months, maybe longer 
so that should make things easier for laundering and maintenance.  I'll 
check out the diaperswappers site.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] another cloth diaper question


> If your wife is going to breast feed, no need to even rinse them off.
> Breast fed baby poop is water soluble, so you can just toss it in the 
> pale,
> and it comes out in the wash.
>
> When they start eating different foods, just shake the poop in to the
> toilet, and toss it in the pale.  If your not comfortable just doing that,
> use an old spatchula for scraping it in the toilet.  There is not really a
> need to rinse with water.
> We wash every 2 days, and do not have a smelly pale.  We use a dry pale so
> there diapers are not sitting in water.
> I would recommend you use something like Charlie's soap for washing the
> diapers in.  There are no perfumes, dyes, etc... To bother the babies 
> butt.
> You can get a lot of cloth diapering info at
> www.diaperswappers.com
> Also check out cloth diaper webstores, they usually have FAQs on taking 
> care
> of cloth diapers.
>
>
> Michael Baldwin
> Got print, need Braille?
> http://www.ReadWithDots.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Scott Lawlor
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 7:34 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> 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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