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| I was looking back at some posts about the care of diaper covers. When I finally got a more proper diaper pail it just seemed too inconvenient to try to put the covers somewhere else separately. And I guess I didn't realize that people also wash them separately. What exactly do you do with your covers? Where/in what do you put the used/dirty ones? How do you wash them? Is it worth the hassle of caring for them separately? What will happen if I continue to store and wash them with the dirty diapers? How could I reverse what I've done? Luckily I have only had mostly some cheap covers and have only started building up my stash of airflows in the last month. But I have some more AF coming, and I don't want to ruin them if I am totally on the wrong track. I am using a dry pail, and a FL. Since we only have one child (so far...) the regular laundry isn't done nearly as frequently as diapers, and I prefer to keep things as simple as possible (I guess I want the best of both worlds...maybe I'm being too idealistic, but is anyone else getting away with what I've been doing?) Thanks for taking the time to help me out! I really appreciate the info and advice I can get on this forum! Thanks!!! |
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The risk you run by storing your covers with your diapers is that odors can get set into the covers and can be very difficult to remove. So you could be setting yourself up for very stinky covers. I don't think you'd be causing any actual damage to them, although I think they will also probably last longer if treated as clothes, i.e. not the pre-wash, hot wash you likely use for your diapers.
I just toss my covers in with the regular laundry and wash them with pretty much whatever load I have going. I will say that when I got to the L size, I got 8 covers to make it easier to always have enough covers. If you don't do laundry often enough to function with the number of covers you have, you could try just rinsing them under the tap or giving a quick wash with handsoap. |
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Yeah, what she said. I just throw mine in the laundry hamper and then just wash with regular clothes in cold. No hassle at all, but it's true that you do either need to make sure you do regular laundry fairly regularly (they can be washed with anything at all, doesn't have to be whites or anything) or have more covers. Or rinse like aavt suggested so that the ones you have last longer between washes.
KIaren.
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| I also have only one baby and I don't wash clothes often enough to wash diapers with the rest. I used to hand wash the covers, but now that I have more (I have 3 ML and 4 L and my son can use either during the day, although he needs L at night with liners) what I do is I rinse the soiled covers (with my diaper sprayer) and keep them with my son's regular dirty clothes (which I keep in his room, separate from my DH and my dirty laundry). Every other day, I wash his diapers with his clothes and covers in warm water, then I remove the clothes and covers and run a hot rinse with only the diapers. |
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And as far as I've read, I do a plain water and baking soda soak for a few hours to help get rid of set in stains? are we talking LOTS of baking soda?
Thanks! |
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I would think that baking soda would be more for odors than for stains. For stains, there's nothing better than good old sunlight.
As far as a baking soda soak, you're limited by how much baking soda will stay in solution, but since baking soda is pretty mild stuff, I would think it would be better to err on the side of generosity. |
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| ooops, I meant to say odours! not stains. Thanks! |
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Another point. I am unsure of what ME says about drying covers but I don't. I usually take them out of the wash and hang them on a hanger in the bathroom to air dry. I am training my 7 year old to move clothes from the wash to the dryer and then turn it on. I usually make a friendly reminder to my whole family(meaning myself, daughter and hubby if he is home) that there are covers in the washer. That way when my old dryer cooks everything else my covers are still intact
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| Ditto that. The covers air-dry so quickly anyway and I have to believe that it's better for them not to go through the dryer. The shower rod works great, hangers, one of those hanging driers with clips, even the sides of a laundry basket and they're dry within a few hours. |
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I wash my PUL covers with my CD wash, then hang dry. In between washes i store them either on top of the diaper pail, back of the toilet or on the shelf with the rest of our fluff.
When DD was younger and had the occasional breast milk poop blowout, i would rinse them off and hang them in the bathroom until they dried, then washed with my CD's. |
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| Ours were getting stinky so we now keep them separate from the diaper pail in their own little bin...but we wash them with the diapers (we don't wash clothes often enough to do them with regular laundry). We haven't had any issues with them smelling since we started keeping them separate, even though we wash them with the diapers! |
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| I store my dirty covers on top of the diaper pail. I then take them down and wash them with the regular laundry, but I try to make sure I know when I wash them so they do not go into the dryer. I hang mine on hangers as well. They dry in maybe 2 hours at most. They take longer to dry if I handwash. I do store my AIO in the pail, but I don't use these everyday, and I think it does make em a little stinky. |
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| I also throw them in the regular hamper, wash with my regular laundry and then line dry. |
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