save us from the monster smell!

[emc03]

anybody remember the bed monster from calvin and hobbes? this is how i envision the smell from ds's wet bag.

he's 9 months old, so on solid foods. we use liners to catch the poop so we can just flush it. but there is still a bit of, um, residue i guess that gets through. then they (cotton prefolds) go in the wetbag, but the smell gets strong fast. we used to put them in a bleach/water bucket inside the tub, but we want to get away from that for space reasons.

how do you keep the stink down?

[DevaMajka]

My ds is ebf, but here's what I do:
I leave the lid partway off my diaper pail. It smells way less than having it closed all the way!
if I get any hint of the stinkies (any urine smell or a poo smell that is worse than when he first poops), I wash with Tide to the 1 line, and add a bit of Dawn. Then I rinse until there are no suds (takes 3 full wash/rinse cycles for me). I do this for a few washes, so everything gets washed like this a couple times.

If I were you, I'd start by washing everything really really well, and try leaving the wetbag open and see what happens.

[lifeguard]

I was having similar diaper pail problems recently. I started leaving the lid partway off (counterintuitive I know) & I sprinkle some baking soda (scented with essential oils) into the pail with every single diaper. No stink now.

[Ruthla]

I used to sprinkle some baking soda over the diapers in the diaper pail, and I rarely used the lid. When I switched to wool covers, the pail lid "lived" on the floor behind the diaper pail and was used to hold soiled covers.

By the time the diaper pail was full, there was at least a cup of baking soda in there, just from sprinkling a bit after each smelly diaper was tossed in. Half a cup of baking soda would have been enough to use in the washer in place of detergent, so I would just dump the diapers into the machine, invert the liner and put that in after it, then wash- cold rinse, then hot wash with an extra rinse (or did I skip the cold prewash by then?) and I never needed to use any detergent on the diapers at all! I used some vinegar in the first rinse to keep the pH balanced.