Hi everyone,
I am having some major problems with my son's cloth diapers and was hoping I might find some answers here.
Here are the details:
-My son is 10.5 months old, he's been in cloth since about 4 months. I've always used pocket diapers on him. I use mostly Happy Heinys and Baby Kangas with microfibre inserts (though I do use some cotton inserts as well).
-Around 9 months, he started getting some really bad diaper rashes. I wasn't sure if it was from teething, so we kept using cloth. We then had to go on a trip for 4 days and I didn't want to haul along cloth diapers so we put him in disposables for that time. The rash quickly cleared up.
-After some advice and suggestions from mama friends, I tried doing multiple hot water washes/rinses to make sure the diapers had no detergent build-up in them. It didn't help. The rash came back.
-It was then suggested to me that since we have an HE washer, there might not be enough water in the machine, so I added wet towels to "trick" the washer into adding more water. It didn't seem to do anything.
-I then tried stripping the diapers with blue Dawn and doing multiple hot rinses after. Still no improvement - the rash came back even worse.
-The last thing I have tried is adding vinegar to the rinse cycle and it still has not helped.
-I am using Claudia's Choices detergent, but have used Tide Free a couple times, on the suggestions of others.
I am getting so frustrated!! My son has been in disposables for nearly a month now - with brief attempts going back into cloth all resulting in a nasty diaper rash returning.
I am thinking he may have developed an allergy to fleece. It seems to be the only explanation I can think of.
Does anyone have any ideas they can pass along or share with me? I am pretty much at my wit's end. I really want to keep my son in cloth, yet I just can't deal with this rash and all the problems we've been having with his diapers! I am so disappointed that I've spent nearly $800 on diapers I've used for less than 6 months. Please help! I really appreciate any advice you mamas might have!
Thanks in advance!
Sarah
I am having some major problems with my son's cloth diapers and was hoping I might find some answers here.
Here are the details:
-My son is 10.5 months old, he's been in cloth since about 4 months. I've always used pocket diapers on him. I use mostly Happy Heinys and Baby Kangas with microfibre inserts (though I do use some cotton inserts as well).
-Around 9 months, he started getting some really bad diaper rashes. I wasn't sure if it was from teething, so we kept using cloth. We then had to go on a trip for 4 days and I didn't want to haul along cloth diapers so we put him in disposables for that time. The rash quickly cleared up.
-After some advice and suggestions from mama friends, I tried doing multiple hot water washes/rinses to make sure the diapers had no detergent build-up in them. It didn't help. The rash came back.
-It was then suggested to me that since we have an HE washer, there might not be enough water in the machine, so I added wet towels to "trick" the washer into adding more water. It didn't seem to do anything.
-I then tried stripping the diapers with blue Dawn and doing multiple hot rinses after. Still no improvement - the rash came back even worse.
-The last thing I have tried is adding vinegar to the rinse cycle and it still has not helped.
-I am using Claudia's Choices detergent, but have used Tide Free a couple times, on the suggestions of others.
I am getting so frustrated!! My son has been in disposables for nearly a month now - with brief attempts going back into cloth all resulting in a nasty diaper rash returning.
I am thinking he may have developed an allergy to fleece. It seems to be the only explanation I can think of.
Does anyone have any ideas they can pass along or share with me? I am pretty much at my wit's end. I really want to keep my son in cloth, yet I just can't deal with this rash and all the problems we've been having with his diapers! I am so disappointed that I've spent nearly $800 on diapers I've used for less than 6 months. Please help! I really appreciate any advice you mamas might have!
Thanks in advance!
Sarah
After that it did something to her skin and even totALLY buying brand new diapers shes suddenly reacted to the stay dry polly inners and we from then on HAD to have pure cotton only.
To answer the questions asked, he doesn't really have anything else polyester, so I don't know if it's that fabric in general he reacts to.
(after a while). I was actually having issues with leaky covers (bummi and literaps) and those were totally restored after adding bleach. I used the clorox ultimate thats formulated to be gentle on fabrics its actually not designed for disinfecting but well it totally worked for us. I'd put about a table spoon worth in with a full load and always ran the extra rinse cycle.
