At the beginning of this term, I started sending my wee one year old to care two days a week so that I could start getting a bit more work done. I did the same at some point or other with my older two children, and had always sent them with cloth nappies, so it didn’t even cross my mind to go out and buy disposables for childcare’s sake. I set him up with a small stash of secondhand AIOs and SIOs as I figured these would be easiest (foolproof, so I thought). So off my little Leo went on his first day with a bag of cloth wipes & cloth nappies & a little nappy bin.
Third child syndrome manifests in the fact that there are no cute pictures stuck all over his childcare nappy bin. On the flip side he has the best baby book. Swings and roundabouts π
The first day was ok, but the second time he came home, it was with his nappy on BACK TO FRONT. How, I have no idea. That surely can’t be easy to accomplish.
Another day, someone took one of his cloth wipes, and lovingly laid it inside his AIO nappy before putting it on him. Erm, nice thought…
A few more days passed and then he came home with the trifold insert having been opened up and fanned out the legs. Most bizarre idea ever.
They seem to have gotten themselves into the ‘child in cloth’ groove now, nothing remotely interesting has come home on his cute wee butt for a couple of weeks.
Do you send cloth to childcare? Had any problems or interesting experiences? What’s your “nappy bin” set up at childcare? (I send supermarket bags in to line it, leave the bin there and just bring the bag home. I realise this is not the most environmentally friendly solution. Do you do something better? Do tell!)