Cloth and childcare?

[ellie]

What do you think?

LO goes to his childminder (his auntie) 2 days a week and my parents 2 days a week, soon to be nursery 1 day a week too. All say they are happy to use reuseables, so I put together the easiest peasiest ones to use (ie. aplix ones) all ready. My mum's great with them and even uses the poppered ones and will even hand rinse them for me Nursery reckon they're happy to do it too.

However ... His auntie/childminder, when we started using cloth, was very tutty about it, but now she's looking after him she says she's fine to use it, but she doesnt actually like using them. She won't touch the poo (not that i want her to touch it lol but to scrape the poo off) so i get nappies back all bundled up covered in poo. Yesterday she didnt check the nappy for ages so admitted he had been sitting in poo for ages (as you cant smell it in cloth can you) and it was all stuck to the nappy. I threw out the fleece liner and tried to scrape off as much as I could but it was all dried on Luckily his skin didnt seem the worse for wear for sitting in it. He'd also leaked through but she didnt change his vest either .....

I can't make her do it can I? should i just bite thebullet and give her sposies for him? I dont want his nappies ruined or for him to get rashes or anything because of it

 

[Char&Bump-x]

You should speak to her about it first. Tell her to check him more often cos it's harder to detect poo in cloth x

 

[Rachel_C]

I don't think you should compromise on the way you want your child cared for just because he's with somebody else for the day, although I know it's more difficult when it's family!

I wouldn't worry about people not rinsing out nappies. If we're out and LO poos, I don't put it in the loo, I just bundle it up and deal with it later. It's never resulted in any worse stains than ones that have been rinsed straight away. You could always give her the same set of nappies if you're worried so it'll only be a certain few that might get stains. I would definitely address the issue of not changing his vest if it happens again though. It's possible she just missed it, but if she was just being lazy that's not on. I'll admit that sometimes LO has had a tiny bit of damp on the leg of her vest and I've not changed it but poo is different!

 

[LittlePants]

Would it make any difference in sposies - OK, she'd smell it sooner, but they would leak more! So you'd probably end up with more of a vest problem!
I certainly wouldn't compromise, unless someone was childminding as a favour. That would be different, but if you're paying for childcare, then you have a right to have your child cared for in the way which you ask.
But the nappies won't get ruined - they'll wash out eventually. What about a compromise and using flushable liners when he goes there?

 

[henny]

Our nursey is really good with cloth nappies, my mum doesn't like using the cloth nappies but I insists that Alexander has them on but MIL looks after him 1 day a week and is more then happy to use them but I have to send Lo with sposies as she will soak them in washing powder and oxy stuff then doesn't always have time to rinse them, so im worried that the nappies will get ruined.

 

[Lu28]

I'd definitely have a word with her if it seems like he's not being changed often enough. We had to have a word with our childminder for the same reason, she didn't realise they wouldn't smell so missed when she pooed and she got pretty bad nappy rash. It's been fine since we said it to her though.

She does knock the poo down the toilet but doesn't scrape or use a shower head or anything to wash the poo off and to be honest I wouldn't expect her to, that's going above and beyond as a childminder as far as I'm concerned!