What do you do for daycare?
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Topic: What do you do for daycare?
Posted By: peanut butter
Subject: What do you do for daycare?
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 12:57pm
| 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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Posted By: kiwivic
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 1:05pm
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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.
Vic xx |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 1:36pm
| 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. |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 1:41pm
| 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. |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 4:01pm
| 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. |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 4:41pm
| 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. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 5:30pm
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 ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 6:03pm
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You are so lucky you found a daycare that will let you use cloth. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: kiwivic
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 7:05pm
I don't see how they could not let us? Wouldn't it be discrimination of one kind or another? Vic xx |
mummy_becks wrote:Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 7:37pm
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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! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: AN E
Date Posted: 26 April 2008 at 8:25pm
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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------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 26 April 2008 at 8:41pm
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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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Posted By: kiwivic
Date Posted: 26 April 2008 at 8:46pm
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.
Vic xx |
Posted By: Maya
Date 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! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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