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washing cloth diapers
Hi Everyone,
I am a new mom of a 6-week-old baby. I just start using cloth diapers from disposables. I need some advice about that: 1. can I wash the cloth diapers with other baby clothes? 2. for dirty diaper, after wash away the poop, should I soak diapers with vinegar before putting into the washing machine? 3. how often should I change the diaper? once it wets? Please give advice for the newbie. Thank you in advance for wisdow words. Jen |
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Jen writes:
: Hi Everyone, : I am a new mom of a 6-week-old baby. I just start using cloth diapers from : disposables. I need some advice about that: : 1. can I wash the cloth diapers with other baby clothes? Early on, when we had LOTS of diapers we washed them seperately. After a couple of months, though, we washed everything together. : 2. for dirty diaper, after wash away the poop, should I soak diapers with : vinegar before putting into the washing machine? We actually risnsed twice, first with a vinegar rinse, then with plain water. : 3. how often should I change the diaper? once it wets? Sounds good. : Please give advice for the newbie. Thank you in advance for wisdow words. : Jen Good luck, Larry |
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Jen wrote:
1. can I wash the cloth diapers with other baby clothes? 2. for dirty diaper, after wash away the poop, should I soak diapers with vinegar before putting into the washing machine? 3. how often should I change the diaper? once it wets? Caterpillar is almost 8 weeks old, and this is what we do. - Poopy diapers get changed relatively soon after I notice them. We don't rinse, just dump them in the dry diaper pail (no water, no vinegar, nothing but diapers in a nylon bag in the pail), but Caterpillar is breastfed, so everything is pretty liquid. Formula-fed poop is different, and I have no advice about it. - Wet diapers get changed somewhere between "wet in front but not in back" and "soaked everywhere." Wet diapers don't bother her, and she's not rashy, or I'd change more often. - When I'm ready to do laundry, I take the bag with diapers, covers / wraps, and wipes (ours are heavy enough they don't disintegrate in the wash) and turn it inside out, so the diapers are in the washer and the bag (now dirty side out) goes in too. Add a scoop of detergent (we use Biokleen). Wash one cycle on hot with no fabric softener or anything else. Toss in the rest of the white laundry (mostly baby clothes, washclothes, and our underwear). Wash one cycle on warm with a scoop of detergent, white vinegar in the fabric softener dispenser, and nothing else. Diapers and covers and bag go on the clothesline (or in the dryer with no dryer sheet). Everything else goes in the dryer (with a dryer sheet if no diapers, otherwise I don't mind staticky undies). Phoebe |
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"Iuil" wrote in
: "Jen" wrote Hi Everyone, I am a new mom of a 6-week-old baby. I just start using cloth diapers from disposables. I need some advice about that: 1. can I wash the cloth diapers with other baby clothes? If I'm going to do this I run the nappies (diapers) though a rinse cycle with vinegar first. how much vinegar should I use? with HOT water? |
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Jen asks:
1. can I wash the cloth diapers with other baby clothes? 2. for dirty diaper, after wash away the poop, should I soak diapers with vinegar before putting into the washing machine? 3. how often should I change the diaper? once it wets? It seems like everyone who uses cloth diapers has their own way of doing things. We keep used diapers in a bin full of water with about 1 c. of vinegar thrown in. Dirty diapers get scraped in the toilet; wet ones just go straight in the bin. When the bin is full, we pour off the excess water and wash the diapers in hot water (letting them soak in the hot water for a little while before letting the wash cycle go). Our bin holds about 20 diapers, or roughly two days' worth if you have one child in diapers. We always wash the diapers separately from everything else. As for how often to change, I usually just stick my finger in there to feel whether it's very wet. My husband says, if you have to ask yourself whether the baby needs to be changed, the answer is yes. :-) -- Alpha alphawave at earthlink dot net |
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Iuil wibbled
I don't soak, just rinse the dirty ones. I have a bin in the bathroom beside the toilet for nappies which gets emptied into the washing machine when full. *Then* I rinse with vinegar. Soaking can actually destroy the waterproofing in the covers and the elastic if you're using fitted nappies. Do you know, we hadn't actually thought of that... The instructions on ours (Boots) say to pre-soak but I'm not sure quite what timeframe they had in mind. I think this is going to take some experimentation! Jac |
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