Do you rinse poopy diapers?

[sora]

Hi,

Do you rinse poopy diapers before putting them in the pail? I've been rinsing at the bathroom sink and it's really gross. If I don't rinse and just dry pail newborn poopy diapers and wash them every other day, will I have stains? What would be the best method to wash poopy diapers? I have tried mini showers before but installing always makes my toilet leak. So I gave up on it. Thanks.

[alegna]

Oh heavens no. Newborn diapers I just toss them in the pail. Ds is two now and I shake off what will fall in the toilet (with a *gentle* nudge with tp) and the rest goes in the dry pail.

-Angela

[fruitfulmomma]

No, rinsing and leaving in the bottom of a bucket can cause mildew to start growing. NB poop washes out really well and with older children I just shake out the chunks.

[TheGirls]

Definitely not! I just dry-pailed DD's until she was 12 months or so. Now I use a flushable liner, but I doubt those would do much good for newborn poo.

I have had stains, but a couple of hours of sunlight gets rid of them easily. In winter I don't get to sun diapers much, so I always have a bunch of stains by spring, but they all sun out the first day I hang them on the line, even though they're usually 4 or 5 month old stains by then.

I drypail and wash every 3-4 days. I use pockets & prefolds...

[Baby_Cakes]

DD is 20 mo and has this horrendous thick poo. I can usually scrape the excess off into the toilet, but I don't rinse the diapers. I just fold them, toss them in the dry bag and then they go into the wash. I do one wash cold/cold and then one wash hot/cold. Never had any problems.

[Galatea]

The mini-shower is garbage. I had it for years and it leaked like crazy. Then I got The Diaper Sprayer, which was cheaper and comes with several rubber washers to assure you of no leaks. I wouldn't diaper without it b/c my babies' breastmilk poo stains if I don't spray it off, and their other poop never really firms up b/c of all the fruit we eat.

[jeminijad]

The worst of the worst I'll hold in the toilet, flush, and let the stream of water knock most of the mess of. But 90% of poo dipes I just shake off what will come off and toss the diaper into the pail.

[sora]

So as recommended, I have been dry pailing newborn pooped diapers without rinsing. I have a HE front loader and I find it using not enough water to wash out newborn poops very well. I don't have prewash or soaking cycle so I do a short cold wash and do a hot wash. Normally I have light stains but today I have a really terribly stained diaper- bright yellow all over after it came out of the dryer. I think the only difference was that I put some soap in the short cycle. Would it this sun out or is the stain set forever as it was in the dryer. Can I soak it in Oxiclean?
How can I wash the diapers so that they don't stain? Should I just wash it cold water? Not only the prewash with cold takes about 20min extra but it also does not wash out the poops very well with my washer anyway. I think what happened was that the short cold wash did not clean out the stains and hot water settled the stains.

Do I really have to go back rinsing the poops? I'm so frustrated with CDing as there is so much laundry that I had to do, and with this staining issue, I might just want to give up CDing....
Please let me know what I can do to prevent staining! Thanks so much.

[november]

I don't rinse in the sink, no. That would gross me out. I use the BG diaper sprayer and it works wonderfully.

[cristeen]

Originally Posted by sora

So as recommended, I have been dry pailing newborn pooped diapers without rinsing. I have a HE front loader and I find it using not enough water to wash out newborn poops very well. I don't have prewash or soaking cycle so I do a short cold wash and do a hot wash.

This is a common problem with FL machines. The diapers just absorb all the water it's pouring in, so there's none left to wash in. I pour an additional 2-4 gallons into the rinse and initial wash with a bucket when I'm doing diapers. Just enough so that I can see through the window that as it's agitating there's some water standing. I have a rinse/spin cycle on my machine so I don't have to do 2 full cycles. So I do rinse/spin with add'l water to get the poo out. Then I do a full cycle (with soap) with an extra rinse at the end, and pour add'l water into the initial fill. If I feel like they still need it after that, then I'll do another rinse/spin cycle with extra water.

As for stains, sometimes poo stains. Take your wet (clean) dipe on a sunny day, lay it out in the sun for 20 minutes, and you'll be amazed at how quickly that stain disappears. I don't have a clothesline, so I just drape a towel over the porch railing and lay them out there when a sunny day coincides with wash day, which might be once a month or so (I wash dipes 3-4 times/week). Once the stains are gone (sometimes I need to rotate them after half an hour), then I toss them into the dryer.

[Katie T]

No, if there is a solid chunk I will drop it in the toilet or peel it off with tp. I get stains rarely and with numerous washing they always come out on there own. If I were to get a stubborn stain (I don't care about stains but ya know) I would sun it or in the winter use a oxygyn soak over night.

[rootzdawta]

I got a diaper sprayer which was awesome until it started to leak. I was unable to find a replacement washer so I do rinse. It's kind of gross but I just swish it around in the toilet till I get all the poop off, spray with Bac-Out and put it in the diaper pail (poop only touches one hand). Then I wash my hands really well.

Oh, DS is 2 and rarely makes poops that are solid enough to just plop off. I feel like I win a bonus when they are solid turds.

[DevaMajka]

I dry pail. I didn't rinse before ds started solids. Now, I dry pail and rinse right before I do a load of diapers. (he has lots of undigested food sometimes, so it would be *really* gross if I didn't rinse. lol)

I rinse mine in the shower (with the handheld head) into the diaper pail, then dump it into the toilet.

[Beauchamp]

I have always rinsed REALLY well. But then again, I go a long time between washes, maybe 6-7 days? We have the BG diaper sprayer and I looove it. It seemed gross to me to have poo in the diaper pail. I'm sure I do much more spraying/rinsing work than is really necessary, but it's just what I do.

I will spray the wipes in the sink if they need it. I lay the wipe flat and shoot it with the sprayer. Newborn dipes we rinsed in the sink, too, yes. I also cleaned that sink a lot. It was the second sink in our master bath, though, so no one else used it but me and DH.

Maybe it's because I feel like I paid so much for my dipes and I am afraid of stains.

[Carma]

Originally Posted by cristeen

This is a common problem with FL machines. The diapers just absorb all the water it's pouring in, so there's none left to wash in. I pour an additional 2-4 gallons into the rinse and initial wash with a bucket when I'm doing diapers. Just enough so that I can see through the window that as it's agitating there's some water standing. I have a rinse/spin cycle on my machine so I don't have to do 2 full cycles. So I do rinse/spin with add'l water to get the poo out. Then I do a full cycle (with soap) with an extra rinse at the end, and pour add'l water into the initial fill. If I feel like they still need it after that, then I'll do another rinse/spin cycle with extra water.

As for stains, sometimes poo stains. Take your wet (clean) dipe on a sunny day, lay it out in the sun for 20 minutes, and you'll be amazed at how quickly that stain disappears. I don't have a clothesline, so I just drape a towel over the porch railing and lay them out there when a sunny day coincides with wash day, which might be once a month or so (I wash dipes 3-4 times/week). Once the stains are gone (sometimes I need to rotate them after half an hour), then I toss them into the dryer.

I use the 'perm. press' cycle of my FL machine, it uses more water.
Also the 'tub clean' uses more water, if you want a hot cycle with more water.
My BF poo diapers also stain on my pocket diapers (not on the inserts and the flannel wipes for some reason), she has yellow seedy stool. I linedry the pockets outside in the sun, that's also better for the velcro. I am also still trying out different detergents, right now I have 7th Gen. for the diapers. But I use Tide for our other clothes, it get's all kind of stains out much better than 7th Gen. in my experience, but is not recommended for diapers. I might try Tide for the diapers, she has not had rashes yet (2.5 months old now).

Carma

[cinnam0n]

We never rinsed diapers when I was exclusively breastfeeding, we just threw them in the diaper pail dirty. Once DD started eating solids, we invested in the Bum Genius diaper sprayer. Most of the time we can just plop the solids into the toilet and flush, but for poops that are less solid, the diaper sprayer is amazing. After they get rinsed, we toss them in the pail. With our fuzzi bunz we remove the insert before rinsing with the diaper sprayer.