WOW!
That’s the best word I can come up with when thinking about a certain theme that seems omnipresent in my new life… I’m talking about poo. Turd. Crap.
Never, ever in my born days did I imagine that I would handle more shit as a mother than a plumber! So I thought I would share the comparison with all you mothers out there who maybe don’t have a full appreciation for what you are constantly exposed to. For starters, let’s give one point to baby poo sheerly for the fact that at least you know what it was. Those raisins were definitely consumed yesterday and although they don’t bear the same colour any more, you can rest assured that you put that into your baby’s system. Fortunately I have always made my own organic food for my boy and have quite a rapport going with his little digestive system - that jarred stuff? Forget it! If you want a guaranteed nappy disaster that seems to have been scraped off the bottom of a cow barn floor, smell and all, then you’ve found it! Stay away from that stuff.
Now that’s not to say that when you feed your baby food from scratch, that you don’t wind up with an offensively malodorous nappy covered on every side and angle - this also applies to your baby, especially when their kicking feet enter the picture. Quite the opposite is true, depending on what you feed your baby. Of course, I have been blessed with a baby who wants all things flavourful and spicy; curries, seafood, Japanese, East Indian… I think Asian Fusion might be his favourite. This gets a little hard on his mother’s very weak gag-reflex, as I’m sure you can imagine.
What does a Professional Seasoned Plumber do with such a wretchedly foul nappy? Well this PSP refuses to use disposable diapers, I could not sleep at night if I were throwing 15 diapers into our garbage every single day. I used a diaper service for the first 13 months which was AWESOME! Toss that shitty nappy into the bin and they take care of it from there. But in the last 2 months, I’ve decided to purchase nappies and wash them at home. After all, he was finally pooing less and it seemed to be of a more manageable consistency… well, some of the time anyway! Back to my point: what does this PSP do with atrociously soiled cloth nappies? I started off dumping the load in the toilet then tea-bagging these barely recognizable heathens in the water, but found that I had to flush and dip and flush and dip and flush… I, as a devout environmental PSP, can not justify that many flushes for one single nappy that remains filthy. So now I power wash what’s left in the bathtub. That’s right, I get the shower head on its jet setting and blast the leftover poo to smithereens! Now I know you might be horrified at the thought of all this fecal matter swirling around inside your tub and the extra jet action thats needed to break up the bigger bits to get it down the drain - so here’s a little info to get you through it: The tub drain is directly connected to your toilet drain. It is connected closer than the distance between your tub and toilet. The size of your tub drain is the same size as the trap cast into your toilet (you can see it clearly under/behind the bowl, the funny intestinal looking part of the toilet). There is no issue with blasting poo down this drain, except of course… the new found fecal content of your bathtub! That’s what CLEANING is for people, I have a new found motivation to actually clean my tub on a regular basis.
Some people might say “Kristi, isn’t that using more water than repeatedly flushing the toilet?” The answer is no. Look at the size of the tank on your toilet; every flush empties it. You can blast a nappy nearly clean in about 15-20 seconds which then also allows you to wash them on a shorter washing cycle. It’s working great for me!
I do hope that you’ve found this interesting and informative. If you have any further questions about it, you are always welcome to email me about it! At the very least, you could breathe a sigh of relief that I haven’t posted any photos to help demonstrate my point. Alright, back to work…!
