[engineer_mama]

I just had to put to kids in cloth last night. I feel compelled to try it again every once in a while. Plus, I have the perfect system -- a trifolded Samuel's soaker in and Angelwrap windpro cover. It's so soft and cushy, breathable, leak-proof, and relatively trim. So I open both diapers this morning with trepidation and voila! Perfect skin and no ammonia smell. But other mornings with the same system, it's super-stinky ammonia and red, almost burned looking skin. What gives? I always use the same washing system. Maybe the kids just pee stronger sometimes? They both drink a fair amount and the diapers are quite wet in the morning, so I think they're well hydrated. I keep meaning to pick up some bleach and try bleaching the SS's and see if that helps. Maybe I'll try it tonight.

 

[Kermit]

Some variables may include how old the diaper is. Are any of the SS newer than others? If some have been included in a strip or something like that recently and others not.... If the diaper was wet in earlier in the night some nights than others....
Some nights Caden doesn't pee until 3 in the morning. Others, he pees much earlier and therefore, the urea has more time to decompose till morning.
Have you considered boiling them first? It's a PITA, but it works for us if I boil for a good 10 min. or more.

 

[MamaMonica]

I agree with Holly about them possibly peeing earlier in the night and having time for it to smell/cause skin irritation. The times I didn't change ds at night and used hemp there was a horrible ammonia smell in the morning.

The funny thing is that I never had this problem with dd when I used ME OS and a stack of cotton doublers- and I never changed her at night. I think hemp is the problem.

 

[Jamesina]

i had the same problem for about two weeks... even after i stripped my diapers... what i didn't realize was this:

when i was stripping my diapers, there were still some next to the changing table that didn't go in that particular wash. so, while i thought i had done all my diapers, a few of them didn't get the treatment. so every now and again, it was HORRIBLE.

good luck with it...