Daycare and cloth

My best mate is a 2IC in a daycare and she said that they don't mind modern cloth so long as they are provided with a wetbag with scent in it (like tea tree oil or lavender or something) and that they are pre-stuffed if they are pockets. They don't like prefolds or flats at all. She said they never rinse them as that's more work for them.

The creche Han attends didn't use cloth, so I had to send her with sposies (grrr as it cost me a fortune!)

I think if I did it again I'd just turn up with the cloth and tell them that is what I use (I think Emma was brave enough to do that!) but I'd make sure I made it easy for them to use - provide a wetbag with scented stuff like Stacey said, pre-stuff pockets, use disposable liners etc.

I think most creches just have an aversion to cloth because they think flats. Most are pleasantly suprised to find out about MCN - my friend called around many Wellington centres and most of them were receptive or atleast wanted to know more about MCN.

Yeah I was going to provide this - stuffed nappies, liners and scented wetbag but was wondering whether they would rinse them so will ask. Was shocked when I was told how unhygenic they thought they would be (they take out disposables to rubbish skip every couple of hours) as I wondered what they would do with a toddler's knickers if they soiled them? They could hardly chuck those out so not much different in my book esp. as Kaleb is only pooing every couple of days at moment.
One daycare said straight off no problem while another said they'd consider it only after I explained what about the MCN. (To be honest until I came on here I didn't know about these and thought of nappies as flats!)

I think most people think of cloth nappies as flats with pins and fluffy covers. When I worked in a day care centre a little over 10 years ago thats what we used and they were pretty gross.......

Arent you using them the rest of the time Jess?

whats weird is cloth (flats) was all there really was back in the day, and daycare didnt kick up a stink then.
I just think its rude to make the parents fork out for sposies if they choose to use cloth flat or mcn esp since daycare is so expensive to begin with.

Maya's daycare (which the gremlins will attend) are OK about cloth, I wouldn't go so far as to say they were *happy* about it, but they were OK. I provided a lidded bucket for them to be stored in and they lined it with a plastic bag and basically just chucked the dirty nappies into it without rinsing or anything and then I took the whole plastic bag home, soaked overnight and then rinsed and hung out the next morning. And that was with flats, pins and covers. I'm sure they'll be stoked with the gremlins MCN's since they're so much less hassle.