Washing my homemade AIOs

[mandica]

I'm preparing for the birth of my first babe, and sewing my own AIO cloth diapers.

I have No idea how to wash these?? Hot vs cold water? Detergent?

Should I soak them? Or leave them in a dry pail? What do I put in the wet vs. dry pail? Do I NEED to use bleech?


I hope to hang dry most of the time.


Help me,
what do I do?

[Michigan Mama]

what kind of fabrics did you use? that will help us be more specific, but my general routine looks like this:

cold rinse with 1/3 scoop country save. 2 hot washes (or one hot wash, one hot rinse, but I don't have a hot rinse setting so if i forget to catch it and spin it out, then it ends up being the whole wash cycle). dry on medium.

Here's a list of diaper friendly detergents. Natural fibers are usually more forgiving than synthetics, but everybody seems to like something different!

I use a dry pail. if you are ebf'ing, the poopy diapers can just get tossed in without rinsing. Easy peasy.

Good luck!

[mandica]

THanks for your reply!

I'm using mostly flannel with some fleece soaker pads and PUL