What to do with solids is a question that comes up often when people start considering cloth and/or first switch to cloth.
Thought it’s not complicated, I thought I would try to cover exactly what you are suppose to do with solids.
There are two types of solids.
Breastfed Solids (completely breastfed)
Formula & Food Solids
Breastfed solids don’t *need* anything to be done to them. You can take the diaper off of your baby, toss it into your pail and then straight into the wash on laundry day. The solids will wash away on their own in your wash cycles. No work needed.
All other solids should be dumped into the toilet and flushed away. This generally includes formula & food solids, or anything that is more truly ‘solid’.
What you will want to do is take the diaper off of your baby and simply dump the solids into the toilet. Unfortunately, not all solids are truly ‘solid’. Some might need some help to actually get off of the diaper and into the toilet.
There area few options.
#1 Diaper liners. I have heard good things about these liners. The idea behind these is to put them into your diapers and then if baby poops, you simply dump the liner, poop and all. No fuss.
#2 Scrape. Some people use some sort of utensil to scrape the poop from the diaper. Perhaps a cheap spatula, knife, etc. bought specifically for this purpose. I do this for diapers that aren’t easily dumped, and then put them into my pail.
#3 A diaper sprayer. These attatch easily to your toilet and you can wash away the solids right there and be done with it.
#4 A laundry tub with sprayer faucet. Similar idea as the sprayer. I have this set up from Lowe’s. The great thing about this is that I can use it for stained laundry (soaking) and for washing and lanolizing my wool 
Once washed out of course 
I do #4 mostly. I also rinse every diaper that has solids in it. Even my baby’s breastfed solids. I just can’t throw them into my machine. I’m awful, I know
I find that the wash tub is nice for me because we had room for it by our washer. I dump solids in to the toilet, put them into my pail. On wash day, I put on my gloves, put the wet diapers into the wash, the ones with solids/remnants into my wash tub and then spray them off. It takes me a few minutes and then I put them into the wash too.
My diapers don’t have any stains, and I really think the sprayer plays a large roll in that Plus, I feel like my diapers get really clean. The less that goes into the wash, the less that the detergent needs to fight Or at least that’s how I see it
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I love flushable diaper liners! I prefer Bummis brand because they feel a little softer – I imagine them being more comfy against my little guy's bum.
I disagree with your assessment – purely formula fed babies' poop is no different than breast fed baby poop. First, its the same consistency so difficult to scrape. Second, it comes out in the wash anyway. We always just threw them in as is when we hadn't started solids yet.
Great post! Thanks! Happy to have found your blog
Great post! Thanks! Happy to have found your blog