washing dipes with other laundry

[Adasmommy]

So if you don't have a lot of wet/dirty diapers, do you combine diaper laundry with clothes? I don't like to let diaper laundry go more than three days without being washed, but what if there isn't enough to so a decent small load?

I'm using soapnuts for laundry, by the way.

I haven't seen a poopy dipe in a week, but baby is 2.5 weeks old and I know that things will change a lot on this journey. Wish I could count on no poopy diapers forever . . .

[theboysmama]

we use underwear during the day and water proof trainers at night. Rarely have poops but if we do I rinse them out really well. I "store" all soiled items in the diaper pail w/ a wet bag liner and then just sort them into the appropriate color piles and throw them in w/ my regular laundry.

[sapphire_chan]

The one time I've had a problem with combining laundry, was today, when the insert I didn't take out of a pocket diaper was still wet and urine scented out of the drier. (Oddly, the diaper smelled bad, but was only slightly moist, fleece is weird.)

So, there you go, just remember to disassemble the diapers before you put them in. If you do have a poopy diaper, I've had no problems with just squirting some detergent (er, "pouring" for people who don't keep their detergent in a condiment bottle) on the poopy region.

[Adasmommy]

Thanks so much for the input!

[tranana]

My cloth diapers have a slight odor to them even after they have been through two cycles. I have put towels in with diapers, but only during the second wash. Even then when they are dry the towels smell like the diapers. I wouldn't put regular clothes in with the diapers because of that reason.

[zoebird]

i wash them with our regular clothes, though i do presoak them if they need it.

usually, they don't need it and they come out smelling fine.

[oma to 9]

Originally Posted by tranana

My cloth diapers have a slight odor to them even after they have been through two cycles.

If the diapers smell odd, they may need to be stripped. Put them in a hot wash with RLR or a couple drops of Dawn dishwashing liquid and run through. Repeat the wash with just clear water until you see no sudsing at all in the wash water. Add some vinegar to the final rinse and that should take care of the smell.

HTH

Trisha, Oma to 9
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[tranana]

Originally Posted by oma to 9

If the diapers smell odd, they may need to be stripped. Put them in a hot wash with RLR or a couple drops of Dawn dishwashing liquid and run through. Repeat the wash with just clear water until you see no sudsing at all in the wash water. Add some vinegar to the final rinse and that should take care of the smell.

HTH

Trisha, Oma to 9
simpleadditions.etsy.com

Thanks, I will try that. What is RLR?

[sgmom]

I use waffled cotton underwear and prefolds (and I have lots of them) so I wait until I'm almost out, then wash one big load of diapers.

The reason I wash them alone is because I don't want my regular clothes laundry (Ecos) to leave any residue on them, so we use a special detergent just for the diapers.

Diaper covers however, will sometimes get washed with the regular laundry.

[BlackSheepPDX]

We used prefolds, and washed them on a sanitary cycle in an HE machine. Since there aren't a lot of my other clothes I want washed in scalding hot, I didn't combine loads, other than if there were potty soiled clothes.

We do use the same detergent (Charlie's Soap) for all our laundry, however.

[zoebird]

yup, i wash my poopy dipes by hand (with a bit of oxyclean), and then i run them through the regular wash with the laundry because we don't go through enough. right now (traveling), it's about 3/day with misses. one poopy one.

[riboflavin]

We wash everything together too. If there is a poopy doopy one, we just rinse it out first. We use soapnuts sometimes as well, and also 7th Generation and ecover. I thought we wouldn't be able to do this after real food started, but turns out we never had to stop. Only very occasionally have we had to redo a load because of odor. But we do wash and dry everything on hot.