Daycare and cloth
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Topic: Daycare and cloth
Posted By: Faraway
Subject: Daycare and cloth
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 2:16pm
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We are currently looking at daycares for next year and have been surprised at the mixed reactions we've had when asking about cloth nappies. Quite a few have said they are unhygienic to have lying around... SO was wondering from those of you who have children in daycare-
Do they use cloth nappies? Or do you use sposies? How many nappies do you send with your child? (since I assume you wouldn't have extra there?) If cloth what do you supply for them to keep them in? Bucket? Wet bag? Do they rinse pooey nappies for you or just 'bucket' them? Anything anyone else finds useful to add? THANKS 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 2:38pm
| 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. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 2:53pm
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I have managed to change the daycare's (I am sending Josh to) nappy policy to include cloths. They will take them so long as I proveid somewhere to store them, they are all ready to go (stuffed). They said they will rince anything off and then just store them as they need to be stored. You will find a lot of daycares thing of cloth as flat whites and pins. I had to take Josh into the nursery to show them what they were. As soon as the head teacher saw them she was like so easy no extra work. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 3:23pm
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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. |
Posted By: marielb
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 3:57pm
| I talked to the kindy that Isaac starts next week and she said that they don't mind changing a cloth nappy. I think I will make sure I send a stuffed pocket and bag to make it nice and easy for them. Can't see how a pocket nappy is any different from a disposable! They can just put it in a bag! |
Posted By: Faraway
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 5:15pm
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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!) |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 6:03pm
| It really frustrates me when they talk about hygiene when they have to store and then dispose of hundreds of disposables per week. What could be more unhygienic than that?!?! |
Posted By: marielb
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 7:30pm
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.......
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Posted By: Carmel
Date Posted: 28 July 2007 at 8:57am
Piper goes to an in-home daycare so we are lucky as our carer doesnt mind cloth nappies, as 2 of the kids including Piper has them. She will even wash them for us
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 29 July 2007 at 1:56pm
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Arent you using them the rest of the time Jess? ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 29 July 2007 at 5:30pm
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jack's daycare uses mcn without problems. he's only there 4hrs at a time so i only send 1 stuffed nappy with a liner and plastic bag ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: MyMinis
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 6:55am
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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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Faraway
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 8:49am
| My thoughts exactly Monique! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 9:52pm
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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. -------------  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: Faraway
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 7:57am
| I was a bit concerned that stains might occur - would I get around that by soaking the pooey ones when we got home? Since I wouldn't be there to rinse straight these ones straight away... |