[tash]

Please help! All of my dipes are stained! What am I not doing right with this

machine?!

Here is my routine with 2 tbs of cheer:

Heavy Duty Wash on HOT
I select: Prewash, 2nd rinse

Today I even did a rinse and spin on cold water before my normal wash.

I'm losing my patience!

What works for you?

My sprayer should be here tomorrow-but my DD is EBF.

 

[kimberlylibby]

Dude, that's scary sounding. I don't own a HE3T but the name is intimidating.

 

[ustasmom]

I have more trouble with breastfed poo than I do from my 2yob. I have a Whirlpool Duet frontloader and I add water. I find that the diapers suck up every drop of water with room to spare. This fights the buildup issue. I don't usually battle stains. But I do spray them as well as I can. Poo does not go in the diaper pail.

 

[mmskids]

I choose normal cycle, prewash, second rinse and also hot/cold water. I did find via this wonderful group, someone recommended adding more water. When I did that, it came out even cleaner (nothing in second rinse). As it's filling up, just pull the soap part out and add more water. I did this for the past two washes and it appears to help. I did it just during the 1st rinse and prewash.

I use 1-2 tsp tide (not HE) and a little vinegar (really soft water). I put the tide into the washer with the diapers for the prewash cycle and I put the vinegar where the detergent goes.

I do presoak (wet pail) the stained ones in totally toddler. I like the way it smells. So far, not a single stained diaper.

You may want to just line dry them if they are really stained.

 

[kimisaur]

One of my three had the most incredible staining BF poop....it's not always innocent and sweet!

I always do a normal cold wash, and hit 2nd rinse. (Poop is a protein stain, so it will set in hot water.) Then I do the sanitary cycle. I still have had some staining on prefolds from the really nasty poops, but they fade fairly quickly. They always smell wonderfully clean regardless.

HTH!

-Kimberly

 

[nonnymoose]

I have a Duet HT, so I presume the cycles work the same way...

if you hit "prewash" on a hot cycle, evidently you get a hot prewash, which is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I do a cold quick wash, then a whitest whites. I keep a bottle of spray'n'wash on the toilet and hit the poopy dipes with that while they're in the potty pail. I don't get too many stains, but when I do, they sun right out.

 

[Oceanone]

Yep, what Jennifer said. A quick cold cycle first. Actually, mine's not quick because I add a soak. Normal wash cold with soak. Whitest whites wash. I don't have any stains. Good luck. It takes a while to get down the routine that works for YOU.

Your sprayer will probably help too...

 

[danaalex]

no matter what my wash routine was with exclusively breast fed poops i had stains. some more than others but all noticable none the less. we did a lot of sunning. they come RIGHT out, unlike toddler poop stains. i get the occassional stain now, but mostly my dipes are stain free.

i rinse all poop off of my dipes, every last bit of it, before it goes in the pail. then i do a cycle on whitest whites or sanitary. i add the presoak/prewash option but i DO NOT add detergent until the dipes have aggitated some. this way i can see if there was any residual detergent in the dipes. then i add literally a teaspoon of detergent to the dispenser. i then run extra wash/ rinse cycles until there are no suds and no cloudy water left. usually only one but sometimes more. every smells clean, is stain free, no stinky hemp...................

works for us

 

[mumztheword]

I also had stains in those early EBF days... nothing I tried worked, except the sun. And I must say that there was something very therapeutic about hanging up a bunch of gorgeous fluff and watching them wave at me in the breeze.

I finally just accepted that my milk + ds's poo = stains. Now that he's older, I have no problems at all. It will be interesting to see if I have the same issue with #2...

Sorry I can't be more help. Spray N Wash and Bac Out and maybe Zout are good things to try too...

 

[tash]

thanks for all of your routines. i will try them ALL!!

For those who spray their dipes...forgive my ignorance here, but do you rinse poo, then stain treat? obviously it might not work to put a stain treat directly on the poo right? Clueless!

And Danaalex, how do you put detergent in after the cycle has started?

Obviously, someone (me) hasn't read her manual!

:

I'm new to CDing and I really appreciate all of your help!

ETA: Thank God for the sun! It really is a miracle worker at getting out these stains!

 

[danaalex]

i don't stain treat, just wash it all off and throw it in the pail.

to add the detergent -- i pause the cycle, open the door and add the detergent right into the water.

then hit start
hth

 

[WhitneyVL]

Here's my HE3T routine:
Express wash on cold (no detergent)
Whitest Whites cycle w/extra rinse (1/3 scoop of Tide HE)
Express wash on cold (no detergent)
I never had a problem w/breastfed poops staining, I'm wondering if you're using enough detergent. I know a lot of people swear by the little or no soap routine, but some machines really need it. Just make sure to rinse well. And I do find that the mini-shower makes all the difference since Noah started solids (blech!).