Sprayer thing

To alleviate any confusion from the preceding post, there is a sprayer thing that you can buy for rinsing out your cloth diapers. It's used when you are washing your own diapers; if you're using a diaper service (which gets quite pricey), you don't have to worry about this stuff. But if you choose to wash your own (which is really easy and also the cheapest alternative available for keeping a baby in diapers) you'll want to rinse out the poop when it happens. It eliminates odor from the diaper pail and makes your actual laundry days a lot more pleasant.

But where do you rinse?

Well, if you rinse out the poopy cloth diapers in the toilet, which is the norm, it is very hard to get the poop off because there is no water pressure. So you have to kind of get in there with your hands and scrape. Not a lot of fun, right? But sinks just aren't made for this purpose. They have more water pressure, so they do a better job of getting the poop out and thereby minimize the yuckiness to you. Initially. But once the baby is eating solids, things change. At that stage of the game, the sink will clog if you use it to rinse out the poopy diapers.

(This is all fairly graphic, I know, but it's no worse than the diapers; trust me.)

So it's a difficult problem. You have to rinse the diapers, but how? What's the best way?

Well, all these links, of course, point to the solution. You get a sprayer thing! And then you can rinse the diapers in the toilet while still using adequate water pressure to get the job done. Less yucky. More effective. Less time wasted (which we moms and dads sure appreciate).

Just trust me on this. Give in. Buy the sprayer thing. You'll be really glad you did later on.