Baby poo stains

[AB Editor]

WARNING: Do not read if you are eating... Our second baby is 4 months old and although she will shortly be starting solids she is completely breastfed at the moment. The result of which is the most beautiful bright yellow poo! Following particularly explosive bottom burps and despite buying 'top brand' nappies, they occasionally leak - generally on white vests and her best outfits!! I have tried bleach, vanish and all sorts of lotions & potions but can not get rid of the stains. We had the same problem with our first child and know of several people with similar stories, so, short of putting a cork up her bottom and dying all her clothes saffron, has anyone any ideas as to how to remove these marks...!! [posted on behalf of CN]

[rekstout]

My wife is a nursery nurse and I am often regaled with tales of explosive bottoms and colourful poo - usually over dinner! Her place uses Bio-Tex as a soak to get stains out and Ace bleach which is also very good.

[darth vader]

Napisan (available at most supermarkets)

[darth vader]

...sorry, to continue, Napisan (available most supermarkets) - shove some in with the wash, or if still not removing the stain then pre-soak in napisan and water.

[xyzzyplugh]

I found this link for you :-) http://www.cuddlebabes.info/stained-nappies.htm

[woodpam]

soak the clothes in some Oxyclean mixed with water. The stain will disappear if it's organic - she sounds too young to be eating crayons etc yet so it should do the trick.

[coggles]

Firstly, thanks Ed for posting question for me. Hope the problem I had posting it was a one-off... Secondly, thanks everyone for all your advice, I shall try all listed products - probably all at once!! Also, I have viewed website and learned that one thing I have been doing wrong all this time is soaking them in BOILING water, instead of cold water! I shall try that tomorrow....

[Kit]

It's amazing how much bleaching power the sun has, even at this time of year (assuming it's out, of course...) I had very few problems with breastfed poop stains, even on cloth nappies - however, the after-effects of tomatoes, carrots and bananas are something else... I'm just putting 2 nappies through their 3rd wash at the moment!

[sft42]

Alternatively folks why not soak the sprog in the bleach solution for a while?...this should remove the stains once and for all!

[tracymort]

ooh don't give solids yet! too young at 4 months. my 7 month is not on them yet he is not ready and my health visitor says that its lovely i have waited. current recommendations from WHO (world health organisation) and the NCT (national childbirth trust) say babies should be exclusively breastfed for 6 months with no solids. the required digestive enzymes have not been made yet and undigested food can end up triggering allergies or intolerances that otherwise would not be there if solids had been delayed. watch baby not the calender. http://www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com/faq.asp?new
sid=5633 also those growth charts in the red book are irrelevant to a breastfed baby as they are based mainly on bottlefed. on the leakage front why not try real nappies, it is real nappy week starting on the 7th too! i rarely get leakage from my sons lovely cotton, chemical free nappies!

[coggles]

tracyh, thanks for advice, regarding starting her on solids, don't worry, I am only giving her 1 tspn of baby rice to 1 tblspn of milk, as recommended by the health visitor/nurse at surgery. Mind you, the way she eats it, I think she will soon be eating meals the same as Daddy!! I remember from feeding our eldest daughter, the mess spag bol made of her bibs - got that to look forward to again... sft42, bleaching the baby...interesting thought. Do you have lots of cats & dogs & no ankle-snappers or have you just got a (much appreciated) warped sense of humour? Kit, as for hanging things on the line, the sun was out yesterday so, with summer over, I shall have to wait 'til next year now.....

[Gef]

" i rarely get leakage from my sons lovely cotton, chemical free nappies!" Please, please, please when will people realise that everything is made from chemicals. Some are good, some are bad but please don't blame the chemists.

[elainep]

I have a 3 month old son and he uses washable nappies, although very good I do find that thay stain every time he poos and all over his clothes sometimes.  I do not know how to get the stains out but I have been told not to use bleach.  A product called stain devils usually gets the stain out for indivdual items but does any one know of a product that I can soak the nappies and clothes in.