Cloth diapering at WDW?

[hoosiergirl7]

To the PP that mentioned that the poop in CD is disposed, you are correct, but the diaper isn't completely poop free. I know that younger children who breastfeed don't have very solid poops. Peeing on sheets or in clothes is completely different than poop. Poop has bacteria and germs. If you recall, pee is sterile, poop is not. If I used CD on vacation and used a public washer I would have to wash them at least 3 or 4 times before I felt comfortable enough allowing someone to use that washer. Or if I only washed the diapers once, I would run at least 2 cycles of very hot water with bleach through the machine. Either way, that's way too much of my time consumed during my vacation for laundry.

I really don't have much of a say because I always used disposables with my son. Although next time around I'll probably use more eco-friendly ones like Tushies. However, my SIL did CD and she would NEVER dream of using CD while on vacation. Too much of a hassle and she's there to enjoy her vacation, not do laundry. She also had issues with CD as she tried many brands and had minor frustrations with all of them. With her 3rd she used CD sparingly as it was expensive to replace them when they stopped working.

 

[1rockinmamato2]

Poopy diapers? Obviously you dont CD so wouldnt know that poop is dumped out into a toliet or other disposal method .Besides a kid peeing his bed then u washing it is no different.

Obviously you don't know how germs are spread.

A diaper that has been pooped on and the poop flushed down the toilet, still has the poop, and the germs that were in the poop, on it.

Whether poop has touched a surface such as a diaper, changing table, hands, etc., and the poop is removed without sanitizing (hot water/bleach in the washer, handwashing, etc.) it still deposits its germs onto that surface.

That's why when my children were in daycare, they sanitized the changing table with a bleach solution after each child, even if they hadn't pooped. And it's also why when I change my children's diapers and they reach down and touch their bottoms, I wash their hands as well as mine before we leave the bathroom, even if they hadn't pooped.

I don't want them spreading their germs around our household OR out in public.

Wow, I don't think I've ever typed the word "poop" so many times. Ever.



Disposable liners for cloth diapers would perhaps be different, unless it was newborn or breast-baby poop that is not formed and sometimes leaks.

 

[DISNEYFOS]

I'm sorry, but washing a load of poopy diapers in a public machine that someone else is going to use is inconsiderate.

I'm all for cloth diapering but I gotta agree here. Using public laundry facilities doesn't seem right to me.

 

[Gillian]

To the OP, there is a DVC laundry room on the 5th floor (of the main AKL building).

The water in a regular laundry cycle is probably not hot enough long enough to kill germs. Soap is really what does that. The hot water helps it work. And a hot dryer is important.

I'm getting kind of grossed out with all the poop talk.

 

[1rockinmamato2]

I'm getting kind of grossed out with all the poop talk.

Me too.

LOL!

 

[katedrew94]

Another vote for the gdiapers! I love that I can use cloth or the flushable inserts. That is our plan for our daughter's first trip.

You could also cloth diaper, just buy the flushable liners for the inside so you don't have the poop issues.

 

[Swimmergirl]

Just curious - the original poster mentioned that she will be taking her baby swimming some while they do laundry. What do CD users do in pools? Do you use disposable swim diapers or is there some alternative?

 

[Lauren-n-Jeff]

I have the disposable swim diapers, but they're useless for holding in poo, IMO.. lol
We prefer to use cloth swim diapers which have elastic around the waist and leg openings so nothing can come out of the diaper...poo is nicely contained and won't necessitate a frustrating and embarrassing pool cleaning. The ones I have, I forget the brand, have a terry cloth inside so it "catches" the poo better....and a waterproof layer after that so nothing gets out.

Here they are... iPlay http://www.swimoutlet.com/product_p/4435.htm

 

[okeydokey]

Just curious - the original poster mentioned that she will be taking her baby swimming some while they do laundry. What do CD users do in pools? Do you use disposable swim diapers or is there some alternative?

Don't most public pools require you swim only with potty trained children. I know cruise ships have a small seperate pool for non-trained kids.

 

[Lauren-n-Jeff]

Don't most public pools require you swim only with potty trained children. I know cruise ships have a small seperate pool for non-trained kids.

I'm in Virginia... I have never heard that you can only swim w/potty trained children in public pools... There are just requirements for swim diapers in places I have been to. (and we use cloth swim diapers similar to and including the cloth kind I mentioned in my post above which contain ANYTHING...nothing gets out, nothing gets in....)

And hey.... I'm willing to bet that plenty of potty trained children (and probably even adults LOL) have peed in pools across our fine nation..... lol

Poop is another story and I really really think that those disposable swim diapers fail to ensure that poop accidents are avoided... and that's just gross! My neighbor had her young son in one of the Huggies swim diapers in our little pool in the backyard and he got poop ALL OVER the pool... I had to disinfect the whole thing.. ICK!

 

[bunnyscootles]

Don't most public pools require you swim only with potty trained children. I know cruise ships have a small seperate pool for non-trained kids.

I've never heard of no un-potty trained kids in the pool - that would be fun to explain to a 20 month old why he can't go in the water!
Some pools require a swim diaper plus plastic pants with elastic at the top and around the legs - which in cloth swim diaper would be terry/mesh and the PUL on the outside.

 

[bunnyscootles]

Obviously you don't know how germs are spread.

A diaper that has been pooped on and the poop flushed down the toilet, still has the poop, and the germs that were in the poop, on it.

Whether poop has touched a surface such as a diaper, changing table, hands, etc., and the poop is removed without sanitizing (hot water/bleach in the washer, handwashing, etc.) it still deposits its germs onto that surface.

That's why when my children were in daycare, they sanitized the changing table with a bleach solution after each child, even if they hadn't pooped. And it's also why when I change my children's diapers and they reach down and touch their bottoms, I wash their hands as well as mine before we leave the bathroom, even if they hadn't pooped.

I don't want them spreading their germs around our household OR out in public.

Wow, I don't think I've ever typed the word "poop" so many times. Ever.



Disposable liners for cloth diapers would perhaps be different, unless it was newborn or breast-baby poop that is not formed and sometimes leaks.

I promise I'm not trying to argue here - but why is running a hot wash with soap in the washing machine different than washing your hands with hot soapy water?

 

[1rockinmamato2]

I promise I'm not trying to argue here - but why is running a hot wash with soap in the washing machine different than washing your hands with hot soapy water?

Good question.

Well, IMO, because most germs aren't killed just by "hot" water, it has to be a certain temperature. Soap typically does not kill germs. And if some have turned down their water heaters to 120 degrees, as recommended by our pediatrician, that temperature will not kill some germs or even lice. And with clothes swirling around in each other, there is no way they can all be rinsed off thoroughly.

However, with handwashing with warm water and soap, the germs are washed off the hands and rinsed down the drain. And even that's not 100%. We don't wash our hands by swirling them around in a tub of water, though.

Our son has a lower than average immune system, so we are (too) aware of how germs can be and are spread. And we always take the necessary, but not drastic, precautions.

 

[bunnyscootles]

I think we are forgetting a step!

What about the dryer? That's pretty much the last step to get the diapers good and clean (that or the sun) so if you are drying your clothes, if there were germs to contend with - they'd be gone, no?

 

[Gillian]

Don't most public pools require you swim only with potty trained children. I know cruise ships have a small seperate pool for non-trained kids.

Actually most cruise ships don't have any swimming facilities for babies, so check before you go if that's important to you.

 

[1rockinmamato2]

I think we are forgetting a step!

What about the dryer? That's pretty much the last step to get the diapers good and clean (that or the sun) so if you are drying your clothes, if there were germs to contend with - they'd be gone, no?

Hmm, yeah probably. If they were dried thoroughly. But, still, I get the heebie jeebies thinking about putting my children's clothes in a machine where another child's load of poopy diapers have been. It's just gross.

I mean, nothing against anyone else's child's poop, but it's just not sanitary.

 

[bunnyscootles]

ok I thought of 2 more things -

We are arguing that at a public laundry mat washing diapers wouldn't be sanitary right?

It may have changed in recent years but the laundry mat's that I've been to have 3 water temperatures
ice cold
burn you hot
scald your skin off hot

so even if your poo poo diapers left some trace of germ in the washer - by the time it got through even a second cold water wash and a dry - I cannot imagine that you'd pick up germs on your clothes...

Second thing is something to ponder for those exclusively breastfed babies out there - if mama's milk is sterile and babies gut is sterile then would babies poo then be pretty much germ free? This is such a small percentage of the poo in diaper baby population that I don't think it matters in this conversation but interesting.

 

[bunnyscootles]

Hmm, yeah probably. If they were dried thoroughly. But, still, I get the heebie jeebies thinking about putting my children's clothes in a machine where another child's load of poopy diapers have been. It's just gross.

I mean, nothing against anyone else's child's poop, but it's just not sanitary.

I can see how you would be eeked out - poop is not sanitary you are correct!
I washed my clothes once that still had chunks of puke left from my roommates puke fest on her sheets in the washer... that was nasty.

 

[Gillian]

ok I thought of 2 more things -

We are arguing that at a public laundry mat washing diapers wouldn't be sanitary right?

It may have changed in recent years but the laundry mat's that I've been to have 3 water temperatures
ice cold
burn you hot
scald your skin off hot

so even if your poo poo diapers left some trace of germ in the washer - by the time it got through even a second cold water wash and a dry - I cannot imagine that you'd pick up germs on your clothes...

Second thing is something to ponder for those exclusively breastfed babies out there - if mama's milk is sterile and babies gut is sterile then would babies poo then be pretty much germ free? This is such a small percentage of the poo in diaper baby population that I don't think it matters in this conversation but interesting.

A baby's urine/urinary tract should be sterile, but their intestines are not. Even the breastfed babies.

 

[1rockinmamato2]

ok I thought of 2 more things -

We are arguing that at a public laundry mat washing diapers wouldn't be sanitary right?

It may have changed in recent years but the laundry mat's that I've been to have 3 water temperatures
ice cold
burn you hot
scald your skin off hot

so even if your poo poo diapers left some trace of germ in the washer - by the time it got through even a second cold water wash and a dry - I cannot imagine that you'd pick up germs on your clothes...

Second thing is something to ponder for those exclusively breastfed babies out there - if mama's milk is sterile and babies gut is sterile then would babies poo then be pretty much germ free? This is such a small percentage of the poo in diaper baby population that I don't think it matters in this conversation but interesting.

Even if the washer had an "Annihilate Germs" button, I still could not do it. The thought even is just repulsive to me.

Also, breast milk is not sterile. And a breastfed baby's poop is definitely not sterile. Breastfed babies can still contract (from their mother or anyone else) and spread (to anyone else) any number of bacteria and viruses through their poop. E.coli, rotavirus, adenovirus, etc. (some more serious than others) are all germies that are spread via the fecal-oral route. Breastfed babies may have better immunity to some illnesses, but they are not immune to everything.

I can see how you would be eeked out - poop is not sanitary you are correct!
I washed my clothes once that still had chunks of puke left from my roommates puke fest on her sheets in the washer... that was nasty.

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