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Hi there...
My ME Sandy's dipes are only a couple months old, but are already badly stained now that DD is on solid foods.
What's the best way to get rid of the stains? Leaving them in the sunshine doesn't seem to do a darn thing  |
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I sold some used diapers for a friend, and she'd been putting hers through the dryer, thus baking on those poopy stains. I wanted them looking fresh without using bleach. Sunshine alone didn't do much for the solid-poo stains, but once I put straight lemon juice (just buy a big bottle of generic from-concentrate) on them and hung them in the sun, the stains faded away so much that you would have had to have known to look for them. It may take a couple of rounds, but I'd give that a try.
Also, do you use a fleece liner? It can really cut down the amount of poop that actually makes it onto the diaper, thus reducing your staining. |
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I'll definitately try the lemon juice!
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| I read that the lemon juice works the best if you put it on while the diapers are wet. Also oxy-clean works really well for getting out stains and i*think* washing soda. Doing a soak in either of those might help. GL |
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| You know, I tried Oxy-clean several ways on the afore-mentioned diapers, applied directly as a paste, soaking, in a wash, etc, and none of those seemed to touch the stains. I imagine that I probably did put the first round of lemon juice on wet diapers, although subsequent rounds probably were just on the dry diapers, applying it as they were hanging on the line. |
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| Try laying them flat on a deck or picnic table in the sun. Sunning didn't work for me until I tried this method. I usually leave them for 2 or 3 days, and it really seems to work. I had 1 that I purchased second hand (she threw it in as a freebe, probably because of the stain) anyway nothing I did would get it clean and I was going to throw it away. As a last effort I laid it out on my deck rail and forgot about it, it was out there for about 5 days and when I checked it the stains were completly gone. |
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Hi, I was reading your post. I am semi-new to cding. I read about the fleece liner- do you use them instead of rice paper liners? Do they keep baby dryer? Also, I too have been putting my dipes in the dryer for 20 min and then sunning because they were so scratchy feeling (my ME and my homemade dipes... any tricks for the scratchy issues, too?)
Please email me at ericnjen1113@charter.net |
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Fleece wicks the moisture so it keeps a pretty-dry layer next to baby's skin. Poops also cleans off it more easily (when you're lucky, it rolls, but, alas, my DS is not going through a rolling stage!), I guess because it's smoother than the diapers (not the terry loops?).
I don't worry about diapers being stiff from line-drying, because the fleece is always soft, even when line-dried.
You can add some vinegar in the rise as a natural softener, and drying more slowly, like in the shade, is supposed to be less crunch-inducing (but not as good for stains!).
Personally, unless the diapers are stiff because of detergent buildup, I wouldn't worry about it. Use fleece so you don't worry about baby, but honestly, my two have never seemed to notice line vs. drier (and, more importantly, no difference in skin reaction). |
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