WARNING: This blog post will acknowledge the existence, consistence, and odor of poop!

Hello there! If you read the warning and are still with us, welcome! So this month, I'm going to talk about a new recent addition to our cloth diapering. Diaper liners!

Diaper liner on a flat diaper with cover

Our baby Gabriel is growing, and quite recently. He started eating solids. Before, when he was nursing for 100% of his food needs, poop was not too much of a problem. It didn't smell very bad, and my wife was pretty much OK with just throwing it in the diaper pail for washing. Now, after the solids, things changed quite a bit. The smell can be quite strong and you don't want that thing sitting in the diaper pail for too long, specially if said diaper pail is in your bedroom. Now, if said poop is just something that "plops", not much of a problem. You can just take the diaper to the toilet, plop it and move on.

You cannot rely in the poop being easy to toss in the toilet though. Sometimes it can be quite messy. If you are using our diaper service, then my wife will tell you not to worry but just put it in the pail anyway for her to take care of when she cleans the diapers. In our home, my wife still can take care of it but she will do so right away. She basically takes the diaper pail to the toilet and gives the diaper a good splash there until most of the poop is gone and the diaper is looking decent. Not a pleasant task by any means.

Now, those with disposables might say, AHA! disposables for the win, eh? Well, let me tell you, I came from a disposable world where I didn't plop anything. I just filled the Diaper Genie with every type of disgusting diaper there was until it was filled. The Diaper Genie did not contain the odor though. Those diapers still smelled awful and the whole room smelled awful. That's why the brands recommend you to dump the poop in the toilet if you can. And if you don't believe me, check their site:

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Dump any poop into the toilet if possible. Fold up the dirty diaper and put it in the dustbin or diaper pail.

.."

https://www.huggies.com.sg/en-sg/diaper-tips/get-the-dirt-on-diapering

Now, going back to cloth diapers though, I was changing a diaper once and there was a poop, the messy kind. Under it though, there was a diaper liner. It was magical!! I could just remove that liner and plop it in the toilet and flush! It was so great, that I'm using diaper liners pretty much almost all the time. My wife does too. And we can now hear in the house a yell of "on no! I didn't put the diaper liner this time because I thought he was done pooping!" (between you and me, that was not me ^_^).

So diapers liners 150% recommended once the poops get messy and smelly!