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  | peanut butter   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Topic: What do you do for daycare? Posted: 24 April 2008 at 12:57pm
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   Tom starts in a couple of weeks and we are lucky enough to find a daycare that will happily do cloth nappies.  So those of you that  also have nice daycares, what do I need?  Wetbags etc?
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  | kiwivic   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Leo goes to daycare 2 x mornings per week and they also happily use cloth.  I just send 3 spare nappies, which I bought cheap off TM (just in case anything was to happen to them, didn't want it to be a Foxybot!), and when they change him they put the dirty nappy into a plastic supermarket bag and pop it into his backpack.  So easy!  They even provide either disposable wipes or cloth wipes, whichever you prefer.
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  | Kellz   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   I just send Isla's nappys already stuffed ready to go,..and they put them into the wetbag that I provide thats in her backpack, and they put the wetbag back into her backpack. they use the centres supply of wipes.
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   My friend runs a daycare who takes cloth and she said its best if the parent provides a wetbag. It's nice if its scented but it doesn't have to be.
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  | peanut butter   Senior Member
 
   
 
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   cool! now with regards to a wetbag...what is a proper one like? I made a basic one out of the nylony stuff that greenbeans sells...but I have heard something about lineing them with microfleece which I havent done.
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  | kebakat   Senior Member
 
   
 
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   You only need a bag of any waterproof material. I haven't tried making one out of nylon but so long as it's waterproof it will do fine.
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   i send charli to daycare with 2 naps already stuffed and with a liner.  that's it.  i don't need to send a wetbag, they just pop the dirty one into a plastic bag and then into her backpack.  they rinse it if #2's    she goes 2 mornings a week for 3.5hrs
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  | mummy_becks   Senior Member
 
   
 
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   You are so lucky you found a daycare that will let you use cloth.  | 
 
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     I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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  | kiwivic   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 You are so lucky you found a daycare that will let you use cloth.  | 
 I don't see how they could not let us?  Wouldn't it be discrimination of one kind or another?
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  | Maya   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   It's years since I had a daycare baby in cloth, but when I did I took a lidded bucket which they lined with a plastic bag and at the end of the day I just grabbed the plastic bag and took it home. That was pre the days of wetbags tho!
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  | AN E   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Ask the daycare. I have to supply a lidded bucket, and take that home each night. They didn't want to use a wet bag (just after I brought one for the purpose!)
 They also told me that they don't 'do' anything with the nappy, except take it off and put it in the bucket. However, I supply pocket nappies (and add a flushable liner), they do put the liner down the loo, with most of the poo.    Luv daycares that say yes to cloth    There is one other baby in cloth
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  | peanut butter   Senior Member
 
   
 
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   When I asked them about cloth the woman looked at me as if I was mad.......to think they WOULDNT do them!! She said " why wouldnt we, its no harder than a disposable"   | 
 
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  | kiwivic   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Most of the teachers at our childcare use/d cloth on their own kids so I think that helps when it comes to being supportive of cloth.  Most of the babies are in disposables so they love that Leo's in cloth     - in fact I always take in any new naps to show off (they especially love the Foxybots & D'lishs!) - it's nice to have other cloth enthusiasts to talk to.
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  | Maya   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 27 April 2008 at 11:56am | 
 
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   Maya was the only cloth bub at her daycare at the time, but that was 5 years ago now, my how times have changed!
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