Removing stains from baby clothes that have been stored?

[Biscuits & Gravy]

I'm going through bins of my older DS's baby clothes to see what we have for the baby. I've found a few pieces that have yellow stains, from spit up I'm sure since DS was a reflux baby. He was EBF. Are there any tricks to getting these stains out or are they likely stuck there after being packed away for nearly 3 years?

[pumpkin]

I got a big batch of hand-me-downs recently. Some of it had stains. I soaked in oxyclean. All but 2 items came clean and those particular 2 were very bad.

[Biscuits & Gravy]

Did you use regular or baby oxiclean? I think I have both.

[pumpkin]

I happened to have the regular in-house so I just used that.

[Biscuits & Gravy]

Awesome. I'll give it a try. Thanks!!

[indeospero]

I was going to say the same thing: overnight soak in really hot water with oxyclean. This got almost all the stains out of our baby stuff. Then I dyed the thing with persistent stains, and they looked great! Good luck.

[jocelyndale]

I found that a normal wash + drying in sunlight got out most of the urp stains I found on hand-me-downs (3-5 year old hand-me-downs, at that). Persistent stains succumbed to whatever oxygen bleach I had on hand.

[columbusmomma]

:

[AlwaysByMySide]

Oxyclean, but with cold water. Hot water (generally) will set the stain.

[Biscuits & Gravy]

Well the oxyclean soak did not work. I've had it for a few years though, maybe it isn't good anymore? The sun is finally back so I'll give that a try. If not, at least it is only a handful of items. Of course, one is really super cute and one of my favorites.