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washing cloth diapers? - Chinese prefolds
Hi All,
For those of you who wash cloth- what method do you use? I have the method from weebees.com, but it seems like it calls for an awful lot of cycles. I have purchased Chinese prefolds from weebees and want to identify the best method for keeping them in good shape - I'd like to use them for multiple babies. This will be a newborn if that makes any difference. TIA for any info!! -L. |
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washing cloth diapers? - Chinese prefolds
"-L." wrote in message m... Hi All, For those of you who wash cloth- what method do you use? I have the method from weebees.com, but it seems like it calls for an awful lot of cycles. I have purchased Chinese prefolds from weebees and want to identify the best method for keeping them in good shape - I'd like to use them for multiple babies. This will be a newborn if that makes any difference. TIA for any info!! -L. I wash once with detergent and a cold rinse, and then I do a cold rinse with no detergent. I've used the same diapers for 2 babies so far. |
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washing cloth diapers? - Chinese prefolds
-L. wrote:
For those of you who wash cloth- what method do you use? We do a 60 degree wash with a vinegar rinse, then two clear water rinses (one hot, one cold). Still being used on the first kid, but seem to be holding up well. -- "In Finnegans Wake, he just made up words. Now that's just not sporting!" ...A friend on James Joyce |
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washing cloth diapers? - Chinese prefolds
"-L." wrote in message
m... Hi All, For those of you who wash cloth- what method do you use? I have the method from weebees.com, but it seems like it calls for an awful lot of cycles. I have purchased Chinese prefolds from weebees and want to identify the best method for keeping them in good shape - I'd like to use them for multiple babies. This will be a newborn if that makes any difference. I ran my cloth diapers through a soak cycle and then washed like anything else. Others may give you more cycles, and wash in various things like vinegar. What I did worked for me, the diapers lasted just fine, were absorbent, and we had no real problems. Good luck and enjoy your baby! -Aula |
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washing cloth diapers? - Chinese prefolds
"-L." wrote in message
m... Hi All, For those of you who wash cloth- what method do you use? I have the method from weebees.com, but it seems like it calls for an awful lot of cycles. i am certain some people make washing nappies into something absurdly complicated. no idea why. I have purchased Chinese prefolds from weebees and want to identify the best method for keeping them in good shape - I'd like to use them for multiple babies. This will be a newborn if that makes any difference. TIA for any info!! no idea what chinese prefolds are, but i soaked the nappies in a bucket with soaker stuff until the bucket was full, then did an ordinary warm wash cycle (just of nappies, nothing else). baby #2 didn't stay in cloth nappies too long (eczema) but his poos were much more liquidy than baby #1, & sometimes "shadows" stayed on the cloth, but after being dried in the sun, there was no problem. soaker solution's not even needed for wet nappies, a quick rinse will do, but i quickly worked out it was easier (for me) to just add them all together & do a nappies-only load. i still have many of the nappies after 8 years - after being used on bottoms & for protecting against spit-up on shoulders & the other many & varied uses you'll find for these wonderful objects, i've found the thickest brand i got are still in good shape whereas the thinnest brand are frayed at the edges & a bit too thin to be used as nappies on bottoms - so i'd recommend anyone to buy a thick good-quality brand from the get-go. they're good for years after for wiping up big spills & millions of other things. using a dryer wears fabric much faster. kylie -- www.rdj.com.au |
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washing cloth diapers? - Chinese prefolds
k3 e81 writes:
Thanks to all who replied (and will reply). These diapers are 100% cotton, 4X8X4 Chinese prefolds. Seems that weebees method is overkill - they wash poopy diapers 1X in cold, then add peed dipes, and wash twice - once in warm, once in hot - all with washing soda and detergent. But they don't soak the pooped ones, so that may be why. Interesting how there are so many methods out there! Probably a *lot* depends on your machine as well - incidentally I'm still mystified as to why the typical US washing machine seems to be so primitive by comparison with the typical W. European one! We dry pail, then do a cold rinse without detergent and then a 60C cottons/linens cycle with non-bio washing powder. For the latter we press the "extra wash" and "extra rinse" buttons, but that's definitely machine dependent - ours is designed to default to the economical/environmentally friendly option which isn't quite enough for nappies. This works fine, including for very thick shaped nappies which are harder to get clean than prefolds IME. So I don't think it's the lack of soaking that's the issue, since we never soak. Nothing beats experimentation though... Sidheag DS Colin Oct 27 2003 |
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washing cloth diapers? - Chinese prefolds
In article , k3_e81
@yahoo.com says... Thanks to all who replied (and will reply). These diapers are 100% cotton, 4X8X4 Chinese prefolds. Seems that weebees method is overkill - they wash poopy diapers 1X in cold, then add peed dipes, and wash twice - once in warm, once in hot - all with washing soda and detergent. But they don't soak the pooped ones, so that may be why. Interesting how there are so many methods out there! I run everything through a presoak and rinse in cold water. (If we're in the solid foods phase, I'll probably add a second cold water rinse in here.) Then I wash everything on hot water. Then I put in some vinegar for a final rinse. I've found that without the vinegar, the first set or two of diapers may not have any odors, but it will build up and the other clothes will start to have a slight odor, too. It's much more pronounced in the solid food phase, of course. Michelle Flutist -- Drift on a river, That flows through my arms Drift as I'm singing to you I see you smiling, So peaceful and calm And holding you, I'm smiling, too Here in my arms, Safe from all harm Holding you, I'm smiling, too -- For Xander [9/22/98 - 2/23/99] |
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washing cloth diapers? - Chinese prefolds
Michelle J. Haines wrote in message .. .
In article , k3_e81 @yahoo.com says... Thanks to all who replied (and will reply). These diapers are 100% cotton, 4X8X4 Chinese prefolds. Seems that weebees method is overkill - they wash poopy diapers 1X in cold, then add peed dipes, and wash twice - once in warm, once in hot - all with washing soda and detergent. But they don't soak the pooped ones, so that may be why. Interesting how there are so many methods out there! I run everything through a presoak and rinse in cold water. (If we're in the solid foods phase, I'll probably add a second cold water rinse in here.) Then I wash everything on hot water. Then I put in some vinegar for a final rinse. I've found that without the vinegar, the first set or two of diapers may not have any odors, but it will build up and the other clothes will start to have a slight odor, too. It's much more pronounced in the solid food phase, of course. Michelle Flutist Have you ever tried vinegar in a Downy rinse ball? One site I read suggesting doing that, then just throwing it in the wash so that you don't have to try to catch the rinse cycle. I thought that was pretty clever, but I wonder how well it really works. -L. |
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