[melissel]

My toddler only poops in the potty now, so the diapers are just wet ones, and she doesn't go through that many per day (we catch a lot of tinkles in the potty, and she spends a lot of her at-home time in the altogether

). So diaper loads are very small these days, and I hate running the whole thing for one small load! Would it be weird to wash with other laundry--say, towels or sheets or dishcloths? I'd still use my "hot water, squirt of dawn, tablespoon of bleach" routine. I mean, theoretically, the diapers are coming out clean, so everything else would too, right?

TIA!

 

[sanguine_speed]

Not something I've done, but not something I've put much thought into either.

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[alysonb]

I wash my nighttime diaper with towels or other laundry, mainly because I need it every night and only have one that works right now. Anyway, I have not had any issues, though I should add that I use the same reduced amount of detergent and leave a lot of room for swishing.

 

[Erinz]

Every once in a while I will have caught up on all the laundry and dipes and have just a few pee pee ones (no poop) and will throw one load in all together (clothes, dipes, a towell or two) with my regular amount of Country Save (and maybe a splash of Mrs. Meyers geranium for the scent) and lots of swishing room in my HE FL. I've never had any issues, but it isn't a regular even and all other times I was the dipes on HOT HOT HOT so maybe that makes up for the occassional mix in. It doesn't seem weird to me, maybe I'm more grubby than I thought

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[Gemberly]

Before I cloth diapered... I would put my kids pee'd in clothes and trainers when potty learning in the wash with everything else.

I guess, this isn't any different. I would do it.

 

[prothyraia]

I always toss in any soiled baby clothes, and if we have an extra item or two laying around (towel, pair of jeans) that gets dumped in as well.

The only thing I'd worry about is extra detergent residues coming off the other clothes onto the dipes, honestly.

 

[littlemizflava]

i dont give it a thought since i wash everything in dawn dont matter what is in the load it is all going in dirty coming out clean no big deal to me

 

[onyxravnos]

I wash them seprety but it was pointed out to me recently that if i'm trusting them to be clean enough to go on babys bottom they should darn well get clean enough when going through with my clothing.
It wa one of those " oh... i never thought about it that way" type things.

 

[urthmama]

I've done it before, but I don't make a habit of it, I guess.

 

[PatchChild]

I'll toss other things in after a rinse cycle.

 

[les7699]

Quote:

Originally Posted by PatchChild I'll toss other things in after a rinse cycle.

yup me too, towels or underwear or peed on baby clothes

 

[amandapanda9]

I've washed mine with some items of clothing.....baby clothes that got pee or poo on them....undies.....towels on occasion...but I don't do it often....it's not that I find it gross but I usually have a good sized load of dipes to wash and I have a FL washer so I'd rather not overload my washer with other clothing while doing a load of dipes.....I want them to get really clean.

 

[nandodianenicole]

My dh is not cloth friendly, so when he changes a diaper, he puts it in the laundry basket instead of the wetbag and then if he does laundry it all goes in together. I am the folder of the laundry, so I catch a diaper and inserts every once in a while with the regular laundry. Otherwise, I try to wash my diapers seperately because I do a wash and then a rinse cycle to really get out the detergent.

 

[Momma2SoSweet]

I have coin op laundry and have gotten tired of hand washing the cloth diapers

so I wash my dd's laundry and towels, sheets, etc with the diapers. I use Purex Free for everything. I couldn't do an extra rinse just for the diapers if I wanted to so it really doesn't make a big difference.

They come out fine- nice and clean. I don't always do it, but often.

 

[ReneeC]

I throw towels, washcloths, and any pee'd or poo'd baby clothes in with my dipes quite a bit...the towels and washcloths are no different than a terrycloth soaker/doubler, and the baby cloths have the same stuff on them as the diapers do, so it doesn't seem weird to me to do so.

FWIW, I just tried something "new" with my fleece covers...I had read that fabric softener will "revive" the waterproofness of fleece, so I tried it out...and it works great! Now I wouldn't hesitate to toss a fleece cover in with the normal wash (kinda the reverse of what you're talking about), because the fabric softener is actually helpful! I just did an extra rinse cycle to be sure I got all the detergent out, so that I wouldn't have smell problems.

 

[CaraNicole]

i usually only have one load of laundry to do a day so it all gets chuncked in there! *gasp* i don't even seperate colors!

 

[Juliacat]

I sometimes, if I have small amounts, run the diapers through a cold short wash with no detergent, then add dishcloths, towels, socks, etc. for the hot heavy wash. Works fine.