I so want to take Andrew and Josh out of this daycare as they won't comprimise and let Josh go with cloths. But I don't want to take Andrew away from his friends.

He has to be in sposies while he is there , but they will put a cloth on him before he comes home. And I will put a cloth on him in the morning and they can change it as soon as I leave for all I care. He will have his butt smothered in cream at all times and I ain't signing anything for him to have the cream as they don't want him with his nappies.

So where can I bad mouth this daycare and get it out there that they don't support cloths as the licenee is a snotty nosed b!tch.

It would be unfair on Andrew to change him as he has so many friends there. I'm hoping that when he moved to the toddler side it will be ok.

If they had of told me from the beginning I would of looked at other places then so Andrew could of moved then, but I wouldn't get a place for both of them to start next month.

Yep tried all of that Lyla. They keep going on about how the soiled nappy will be a health hazard as it won't be sealed away like the sposies are in the sanginic bin.

I love the staff there as Andrew has been there since day dot almost but this has just really upset me.

So its kinda a good thing that I hadn't sold all my sposies I had brought while I was pregnant so at least I don't have to buy any for a long time.

Now if only my MP was still the Minister of Education. I'm going to look around at other daycares. If when he moves to the toddler side they say they can't have it.

Hmm just thought of another thing to bargian with. SO soiled nappies are a problem, whats the difference between a nappy and a soiled pair of undies???

Well... I worked at a daycare when I was at uni, in the infant room, so I can try to give you a lowly daycare worker's perspective (since it's usually the lowly ones who are stuck changing nappies).

I worked in the infant room, which had one teacher, one teacher's aide, and two to three classroom assistants. There were up to 20 babies in the room, and we were full to capacity most days. If we weren't full, one of the assistants would get pulled to work in the toddler room, which always had at least 25 kids and one teacher, one teacher's aide, and only one assistant, since the child-adult ratio was different.

In the infant room we changed the nappies at certain "o'clock" times, whether they needed it or not. Nappies were always changed at 10am, noon, 2pm, and 4pm. They were also always changed whenever we noticed they were dirty, so some kids got 6 nappy changes in a day. Every time we changed them, we had to write down the time the nappy was changed and whether it was wet or a poo. One assistant would do the changing, and another one would write down what they called out as to whether it was wet or poo. I got very fast at changing nappies and holding down squirming babies!

Changing 20 babies 4-6 times a day EACH was a mission. It took a good half an hour each time to change all the babies, which means that nappies were being changed for three hours out of the day. Imagine spending three hours each day changing nappies! It would drive you mental!

The daycare I worked at also didn't allow cloth nappies, for a number of reasons. Hygiene was one of those reasons, as well as the necessity of keeping a separate nappy pail from the disposables and sanitising it (because the centre would not have known whether the parents properly sanitised it or not). Having poo nappies sitting around, whether they were double-wrapped or in a pail, was not seen as hygienic either. The centre also didn't know whether dirty cloth nappies were washed in hot enough water to kill bacteria, which was another one of their reasons. The fact that it was classroom assistants changing nappies, not the main teachers, was another consideration -- it was a summer job for me, so I left after three months to go back to school, meaning they had to spend time training someone else. Cloth nappies are easy to use for an experienced mum, but for a teenaged assistant who has never changed a nappy before, it can be confusing. Heck, the time I stayed over at Emma's to look after her gremlins, I couldn't figure out her vast array of cloth nappy supplies so I resorted to the disposables!

I think the issue here is that the centre told you they were happy for you to bring cloth nappies, and now they are reneging on their promise. Which you have every right to be annoyed about. I suggest you talk to the head of the centre and explain that you enrolled your child there with the understanding that cloth nappies were acceptable, and now they are reneging on their agreement. Perhaps you could suggest to them that you will be more than happy to use disposables if they will provide them, or if they will take the cost off of your weekly fee. It might get them to reconsider!

Wow Katherine our daycare has the same change times lol. Bugger they are reneging on the agreement of cloth. I hope you are able to get it sorted soon.

nzpiper wrote: could you say that Andrew is allergic to something in the dispoables and can only use cloth?

Did that (and its Josh, Andrew is the big one ). So when I see my dr on Friday Josh is coming with me and i'm going to be getting a script for a million tubes of the cream to go on his butt so that I have it at home and at daycare so he doesn't get a rash. But... I tried a sposie on him yesterday to make sure they did fit him and he has a nasty rash this morning  on his leg.

No greenie away i'm quite happy to be that way - i'm changing my ways.

I know, I do know that one of the mums that has a child at the preschool and is putting her baby into care later this year uses them. Maybe I should team up with her to get them to change their ways.

They keep going on about how the other children may be able to get into the bag. Now Andrew sometimes struggles with the snaps so I can't see a baby being able to get into the bag.

Yep, I spoke with one of the teachers about it at the preschool and she wasn't very impressed either.

Well Josh had a sposie on yesterday, and his butt is fine just a bit of redness around his legs. So who knows maybe it was just a bad day. I have about 500 sposies that he can use at daycare so long as I don't have to bring any home or put any on him - I managed to break 3 yesterday when trying to put the tab on him pulled it right off.