Sometimes when I talk to moms who still use disposable diapers, I ask them why they don't switch to cloth diapers despite all the benefits for baby's health and mommy and daddy's wallets. The most common answer I get is that many parents are daunted by the prospect of washing soiled nappies.

Well, I figured that with more and more moms in the first world switching to cloth nappies, there must be new innovations in the task of washing poopy nappies. So I did some research on it and I found that by far, one of the most popular gadgets that American parents use to wash soiled nappies was something they called a "diaper sprayer"!

A diaper sprayer? "What's that?" I asked myself. So I looked it up...


Imagine my surprise when I found out that what these parents were calling a "diaper sprayer" is really just a good old bidet! Apparently, bidets are not common in the USA, and many Americans don't know what bidets are! But Bumgenius, one of the most popular cloth diaper manufacturers in North America, simply repackaged a handheld bidet manufactured by a Florida company and called it a "diaper sprayer" instead. The bidet found a new use, and cloth diapering parents all over America are now using handheld bidets to wash their babies' soiled diapers.

So last week, I went to Ace Hardware and asked for the best bidet they had in stock. The price? Only around P500! I also got the necessary valve and a few days later I had a handyman come over to install the whole thing for me. (It took less than an hour.)

And here is my new hand-held bidet, a.k.a. "diaper sprayer":







The pressure from the bidet is super-strong, so now, when my son soils his nappy, I just hold the nappy over the toilet bowl, spray the poop with the bidet, and within a few seconds, most of the poop is in the toilet bowl!

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