Cloth Nappies #151.

[PinkPalace]

quick qn. what does panadol do to mcns?
i have never put DD in sposies when she has medicine... i havent noticed anything different with her mcns?

[maz]

PP - panadol can sometimes make their wee change the colour of the nappy.....I had a nappy on Mateauz after I have him panadol one night and when I changed him in the morning the inside was black.

Kaz - mateauz doesnt want bb at all...he bites and pokes at it but nothing...and I still have milk oh the baby.....boy

Fiona - are you gonna prop up the new machine then if you get that much wate rin your laundry...friggen hell!

[~kellie~]

how soon after giving panadol does it come through into the nappies? DD has some panadol yesterday, and I havent noticed anything yet? Maybe I should use sposies today?

I just got some fluffy mail, well kind of anyway, I bought some new booster sets for my IB snap ins as they were BOGOF. It was still exciting to receive!

I need to look at getting something for my nappy bucket, I am washing every 2nd day, but when I open the lid it stinks! Almost makes me gag! Any suggestions?

Hope everyone is having a good day!

WOHB - purple IB

[Nelle]

Kellie, some people don't notice any difference at all, others notice a grey stain. You don't need to use sposies, if you're concerned you might get a stain, just soak (or maybe even just rinse) your nappies til she's done with panadol.

WORB: Sposie, he's got diarrhea.
WOSB: Itti Bitti.

[PinkPalace]

mum2S

my nappy bucket is the same. lol if it is open when DH walks in the laundry he yells... 'arrh my eyes are burning!!!! ' not sure what you can do to the nappys - i am the same though. wash every 2nd day

WOEB - BBB + PUL
WOAB - BBB + PUL

[Olive]

kellie i dont put the lid on my bucket! leave it to air and always have the laundry window open!!
we havent had panadol stains for a while here..mmmmm... not sure why!!

FJ i would have gottne the larger machine too!

wohb BBB and shorties

[sunshine_sieben]

Kellie, there have been a few good suggestions from the ladies here for smelly nappy buckets:

- rinsing or little squirting your nappies before dry pailing them (the wet ones as well as the dirty ones)

- making a "hanger" of some fabric or old breast pad and hanging it off the handle and into the bucket after putting quite a few drops of your favourite essential oil on it

- adding baking soda after each nappy. didn't work for me, though.

- holding your breath when opening the bucket

- if all else fails: wash more frequently. ie. every day

- ooooh, yeah, and keep your nappy bucket out of the sun! sounds like a no-brainer, but i like to leave my laundry door (the one that goes into the back yard) open for ventilation and the other day, the afternoon sun was cooking the contents of the nappy bucket. enough said...

Hope you find something that helps. It's pretty rank, isn't it...

Happy birthday, Euan!!! Hope your bum doesn't trouble you too much on your special day.

Sa?a

PP, I did try going topless (on my nappy bucket) once, but I found the whole laundry reeked... I always leave my widow open, but that didn't seem to make much difference... :-(

Sa?a

[Nelle]

- holding your breath when opening the bucket

That's my method!

[suse]

Thanks everyone for thinking of Euan on his birthday!! So far he's having a great birthday, he got a new toy which he tried to eat and then bash together, and now he's having a sleep. And soon we'll go up to the house my family are at and he'll run around like a nutter again.

But he has not yet had a cloth nappy on his bum today, but next change he will be back in cloth (because I have run out of sposies LOL and I really don't want to buy more). His bum was looking heaps better this morning after a night slathered in sudocream, but then after his shower he was looking really red again. It's drying up, so hopefully it will continue to improve, but I am actually wondering whether he is reacting to the moo goo - I used a tiny bit of the milk wash on his bum this morning and that's when he flared up, yesterday when I put the cream on his bum the rash was worse when next I changed him (although most of those times he'd also had a poo), but when I did a patch test on him (on a non-rashy part) he was fine. So it's a bit hard to tell. I really hope that he's not reacting to it, because I so want to use it on him - I really hate using sudocream because it is just a nightmare to use with cloth, but it seems that it is what works best on E's butt. But once his bum is cleared up I'll try the moo goo again.

Ness - good sewing there!!! I love that fabric!

Ooops, gotta go, the birthday boy's awake!! Mwahs to all!

[Olive]

happy birthday euan!!!

[Arimeh]

Happy birthday E (happy birthing day Suse) *mwah* hope your bottom gets better.
xx

(At work, quick pop in - waves to ALL!!)

[PinkPalace]

happy birthday Euan!

Well now i have cotton bp's soaked in eucylyptus and rose oil hanging from all my nappy buckets (yes i have more than one! one in laundry for wee and one in toliet for poos).

Does anyone wet with water their wet only nappies then dry pail? i was just reading some info sheets and they said to do this before dry pailing?