Changing and washing poop diaper in kitchen sink

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD pooped and a little got on her clothes and leg. The person watching her took her to the kitchen sink, put her giant poop diaper in the food prep sink and continued to wash her poop off her in the sink. I found this to be disgusting and totally unacceptable. Person watching her seemed to think it was no big deal and thought I was overreacting. We have 5 bathrooms in our house. No reason to wash DD in kitchen sink.

What do you think? Ok to wash DD in poop in kitchen sink?

Person who did this is now mad at me because I was so upset.

As long as the person cleaned and sanitized the sink, I don't think this is a big deal. Perhaps they were closest to the kitchen, and felt like it was better to do it there than run your DD through the house and (potentially) get poop everywhere.

I'm with the folks that say there is yuck in there anyway - chicken pieces, beef blood, fish bones, veggies and fruit fertilized with manure and God knows what else Monsanto can come up with.

[Anonymous]

Can everyone washing poo into their kitchen sink please post their addresses so I never eat in your home?

It’s every recommneded that people no longer wash chicken as it aerosolizes the campylobacter, and the like. I’m not even sure what using a sprayer on a poopy diaper looks like.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/never-wash-raw-chicken/

http://drexel.edu/dontwashyourchicken/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can everyone washing poo into their kitchen sink please post their addresses so I never eat in your home?

It’s every recommneded that people no longer wash chicken as it aerosolizes the campylobacter, and the like. I’m not even sure what using a sprayer on a poopy diaper looks like.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/never-wash-raw-chicken/

http://drexel.edu/dontwashyourchicken/

Sprayer for the baby. Unless it’s a cloth diaper.....

[Anonymous]

WTF that is disgusting. She should have dumped the poop in the TOILET, then clean whatever is needed in the bathroom sink.

[Anonymous]

Gross but, anywhere you do that is going to be gross. Do you really want to brush your teeth where this happened? At least in the kitchen there's a garbage disposal :0

Just bleach it.

[Anonymous]

Nasty. If you don't have a laundry sink for this, then I agree the bathroom sink is more appropriate. After the task was done, all areas need to be sanitized.

[Anonymous]

I almost just barfed at my desk. I'm not a germaphobe, but that totally skeeves me out.

Why not dump poop in toilet and rinse kid off in tub/shower??

[Anonymous]

I think the "person watching her" is OP's MIL.

At first read I was totally grossed out. But thinking back I did bathe my babies in the kitchen sink, which was fully sanitized before and after. While it's not a dirty diaper, it's still a dirty butt. So I guess it's a fine line.


With all things, my advice is to let it go. You've made your preference known, now it's time to move on.

[Anonymous]

I'd rather a kitchen sink than a bathroom one. But I have a disposal and figure a kitchen sink is meant to handle solids better than a bathroom one.

[Anonymous]

My question is what was the alternative? Anywhere you washed her off, whether it be the tub, the shower, or the bathroom sink, is gonna require cleaning and bleaching to be usable again. That’s just the nature of poop. Unless you wanted the person to take her outside and hose her off in the yard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My question is what was the alternative? Anywhere you washed her off, whether it be the tub, the shower, or the bathroom sink, is gonna require cleaning and bleaching to be usable again. That’s just the nature of poop. Unless you wanted the person to take her outside and hose her off in the yard?

I love common sense. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

^^btw while I have never washed my poopy kids in the kitchen sink I have caught my MIL doing it a few times. MIL has clinical anxiety about germs and cleanliness (seriously) and afterwards she scrubbed the sink down like it had the Ebola virus, but in the moment I guess she judged it was the best of her options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My question is what was the alternative? Anywhere you washed her off, whether it be the tub, the shower, or the bathroom sink, is gonna require cleaning and bleaching to be usable again. That’s just the nature of poop. Unless you wanted the person to take her outside and hose her off in the yard?

I love common sense. Thank you.

Op has already said she has 5 bathrooms. Seems there was alternatives.

[Anonymous]

Team DH on this one.

Team DW - why didn't you step in and deal with it yourself if you are grossed out by poop in the sink?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My question is what was the alternative? Anywhere you washed her off, whether it be the tub, the shower, or the bathroom sink, is gonna require cleaning and bleaching to be usable again. That’s just the nature of poop. Unless you wanted the person to take her outside and hose her off in the yard?

I've also used this method before. In my defense it was a million degrees outside.