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Just wondering if we go down the sposies path, how do you dispose of them? Do you recommend a Tommy Tippee type device that makes the nappy into a little sausage or do you use little nappy bag things or are there other ways of disposing? The cartridges of Tommy Tippee is expensive but is it worth it?
As a newborn, i had one of them nappy things and it drove me insane (but still a god idea). Now i just put them all in a bag and chuck them straight into the bin.
I found newborns go thru alot of napies and the new cartridge thingys are expensive as you said... and cost a fortune after a while (cos ur going thru so many nappies each day)..lol
I can't see any point of adding to the plastic landfill problem with more layers of plastic, we just have a lidded bin that we empty very frequently.
When I do use them (not often) I just roll them and use the sticky tabs to keep it rolled in a ball if that makes sense! That's after I roll any poo off into the toilet. Is that common knowledge among the sposie users?? I only heard of that law recently...
I knew of it.. but have never done it....isnt that just wasting more water?? LOL:
If it's a no.1 I just pop it in a scented bag & it hangs off the change table until it's got a couple in it, then tie it up & off to the bin. If it's no.2 then straight into the scented bag & straight in the bin. When I say "in the bin" I mean the Wheelie Bin outside. I don't see it's that hard to make a couple trips to the bin outside rather than spending extra money on something that is not really needed & takes up more room. If you want something to put them in & only empty it later I would just buy one of the buckets with a lid.
What the??? are we meant to be doing that??? Can't say I was aware of that - ooops. Excuse my stupidity but why???:
You're not supposed to bin poop. Yeah. REALLY easy to police that!
I just tape mine into a ball with their own tapes and drop them in the bin. I didn't use sposies until DD was 5 months old (past the pooping every 3 minutes stage of early BFing!), i bin 4 or 5 a day.
Bec
I roll them up & chuck them , if they are stinkies I put them in a stink bag. I didn't know you weren't allowed to bin poopah either opps!!
I bought a nappy bin based on some advice DH received and found it to be totally useless! Would not recommend one based on my experience, much easier to pop it in the bin outside. I also let the wee nappies collect in a bag and then put it in the bin
It says on the side of the box / packet of Huggies. Not sure about others though.
You are supposed to put it in the toilet because it's an offense to put human refuse into landfill, so that includes babies as well.
[quote=Erin_25;893147]If it's a no.1 I just pop it in a scented bag & it hangs off the change table until it's got a couple in it, then tie it up & off to the bin. If it's no.2 then straight into the scented bag & straight in the bin. quote]
Thats exactly wat i do...i thought i was the only one to leave them hanging on the change table lol!!
OooooO I never knew that...
I'm bad, I put them in those nappy sacks, then they go into our tommee tippee, but instead of using the cartridge we use smelly bin liners.
I can't imagine trying to scrape off Seth's poo... thank god I'm not doing this for much longer.
*hugs*
Cailin
We were given one of those Sangenic Nappy Wrapper thingos.....when Olivia born.......I never used it.......from memory I Ebayed it, LOL!
I roll in mine into a ball withe the tapes and take them out to the wheelie bin........(especially Charlie's....OMG.....2 year old poos.....they are SO SO gross.......)
Nappy packaging says to flush it, not to be polite, but because it's the law....same as formula tins having to say that bfeeding is best for bubs - they're not doing it to look nice. Human waste should go to the sewage farms, not our landfill. Lol, no wonder everyone's bins smell!
When I use them I flick the poo into the toilet and then put the nappy in the bin. I don't bother with using the nappy disposal bags at home.
Kimbaz you're not the first person who has spoken like that about the nappy wrapper. They seem like a ludicrous waste of money to me!
Wow, I've actually never read the nappy packets!!! I just open it up, but them in the basket under the change table & chuck the packet out. OK I can see the issue with not putting it in the bin, we don't do our no2 in the bin LOL!!
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who lets the wee nappies stack up!!! Isn't it great to find out you are normal when you do something you think you prob shouldn't or you think no one else would do it.
OK so I TRY and get the no 2's off teh sposies.... but how are u meant to egt newborn poos off? they are runny...... soak into the nappy itself??
any tips?
I pop solid poos into the toilet, the thing is Matilda only started having solid poos this week... when we found her intolerance to milk was actually an allergy and stopped it alltogether in her diet. Jovie's been doing solid poos and we pop them in as well.
Otherwise we chuck nappies into a box by the front door or plastic bag by the front door & then take it out when we go to the car.
You can't get newborn breastfed poos off the disposable, so don't worry about it.
When I use disposables, which is probably 4-5x a week, if it's just wet I roll it up into the tapes & put it in the kitchen bin. If there is poo I shake or briefly (5 seconds) soak it off into the toilet, then roll it up & into the bin it goes.
The idea of throwing away urine is pretty disgusting too.
We got a nappy bin - but it takes normally rubbish bags, instead of those really expensive cassettes.
I got it off ebay, just liked it because we needed a bin in the room, and its got thicker walls so the smell doesn't escape so much into the room. We used to have a Saftey First one that needed cassettes, but we also just used normal supermarket bags, cos i can't believe people would actually pay almost $20 for a cassette refill thing.
We only used the scented bags on really bad poos, i find no 1s don't need it at all. We empty the bin every 2-3 days, and just wipe it with disinfectant/cleaner then to stop the smells really building up.
Anyway, the bin we;ve got is great, not sure of the name, but i'll look it up. I got it off ebay cos they are supposed to be like $100 new, but ours was like $15 from ebay, which is the same price as a normal bin from kmart. I find this one slightly easier (although doesn't contain the smell quite as well as the safety 1st), then my first one because its deisgned not to use cassettes, with the other one it was a bit of hassle getting it into the bin part.
I have to admit to not being a frequent poop flusher. Anyone who wants to police it is welcome to come and try get the poop out of the nappy and into the toilet! In the early days it was sooo liquid and now I think she eats too much fruit! The ones I can I do flush. But I only change her when she's dirty or if she's going to have a bath, so no just wet nappies. We use the nappy sacks (although I found a cheaper version at the Reject Shop ($2 for 100 bags) and take them straight to the wheelie bin.
If I lived in Melbourne I'd look into using the company that comes and picks up your disposable used nappies and recycles them. But I don't live in Melbourne and there isn't anyone who does it here.
Really? You can recycle them? That's interesting news.:
We use sposies at night. If they're just wet I put them in the normal rubbish. If they're pooey, it just flips into the toilet, then into a smelly bag and into the wheelie bin. It is pretty unhealthy to keep packages of poo in the bin... An easy way to spread diseases etc. But IKWYM about newborn poo. It is too difficult to get rid of.
I buy flushable liners that I use (when I remember LOL!) in Natty's cloth nappies. They are an option to use in sposies if you don't like the idea of scraping the poo into the toilet.
If they're wet I just chuck them straight in the bin and if they've got poo in them I put them in a plastic bag from the shop. I don't see the point in buying bags when coles will give them to me for free. If I see that I'm running low I just leave the green bags at home for a couple of shopping trips.
The gel in nappies is the same stuff that they use as a wettting agent in potting mix and sell in packages for your garden so you can re-use some of them that way. I've dug the gel from a couple of nappies into the garden - I figure I'm not growing root veges there so it's cheaper than buying it and makes less landfill. It would just seem foolish to me to throw something out and then buy the same thing later....
Wow, Dach, I didn't know that! That sounds like a great idea. We have some garden crystals on the go atm, but when they run out I might dig around in the nappies instead! Do you use the bits that aren't so wet? How does it work? (Or do you use the pooey ones as they have in-built fertiliser? Sorry. Bad joke. Yes - it was a joke.)
Amy, I just use the garden shears to cut the inside cover and dump out the wet crystals onto the garden - I use the wet part because it breaks up easily.
Thanks. I will definitely keep that little gem in my memory bank.
We have a nappy bin with lid and plastic bag in it *hang head in guilt*. The place that recycles them in Melbourne closed for maintenance in Oct 06- I wish they were still running because I would definately use them. I emailed them today to see when they might be back up and running-will keep you all posted!
I knew about the poo law sort-of, but I didn't expect them to make us all scrape it out of sposies. DD has only done a few solid poos. Normally they're like peanut butter. Stuck to nappy and her. I put all nappies into nappy sacks (got 500 for about $6) (4 fit into each bag) as they are biodegradable. DP wanted me to use ordinary plastic bags but they won't break down. I have never seen any mum in the parents rooms ever scrape poo out of nappies into the toilet. Everyone just rolls it up and pops it into the nappy bins. I'm starting cloth again soon, when we get new covers, and then all poo will go into the loo. But if its not solid, how can you get it out of sposies?
We bought a pedal-lid bin from Bunnings (about $20) and that keeps the smells under control - pop a bag in there and the #1's go straight in there, and the #2's go into a smelly bag and then into there. Empty it every day when the general rubbish goes out.
Wasn't aware of the law to scrap off the poo, not sure how that would work - I do flush my baby wipes though.
Most baby wipes aren't flushable (according to the packaging) so its taken me a while to work out how to juggle it to get the poo in the loo without dropping the wipes in. I only realised they weren't flushable after Mum asked me if they were & I said "I think so, but I'll check" 'cause they have a non-septic water recycle system, had a look and sure enough "Do not flush"
The only flushable ones I've seen are the Wiggles Toddler wipes.
Have only recently started to scrape poo from sposies, cos only recently did DS start doing any that were scrapeable. I keep a roll of cheap paper towel with my nappy bits and bobs and drop that in the loo for flushing next time an adult uses the loo. Reduces water for that nappy change.
For cloths I do the same where I can, but if it's too runny, it goes down the laundry sink...which is the same as the loo cos all that water goes to the same place.
I've been using the Reject shop bags, too, but it makes me uneasy cos it's non-biodegradable after non-biodegradable! I really to try to only use sposies at night, and now that I have some pocket nappies, I use them for going out instead.
Toying with the notion of getting the Moltex ones for night because that's only one nappy I have to pull apart to compost. I can deal with that!