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my mil washed my dipes in all in one detergent with fabric softener in it bc she is illergic to tide. i have been having diaper repelling issues ever since. also the soap that she used was heavily scented and i have been having lite stink issues. should i go ahead and strip these in my mother's HE washer? or should i wait until i get home bc i have no idea how to do it in a HE washer. also, can i wash covers on the sanitize cycle with the diapers?
also, we are tentavely suspecting a pregnancy judging by the way that i have been eating and sleeping and been having crazy emotions all over the place. we will know by next month if the tentative guess was correct or not. if this is indeed the case, i do not want to be washing dipes every day when the new baby comes. how many more will i need to purchase? also, how do i fold the os to fit an nb? i cannot follow the video instructions as some of you know. also should i purchase a few sandys just in case the os does not fit right away? how many of these will i need? |
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First, congrats on the suspicion! That is great news and from your previous posts this is a very welcome addition.
On to some of your questions. Sounds like you may have a built up problem on your hands. That fabric softener detergent was probably not such a good thing, especially if you were on the cusp of having a regular detergent build up. You can do it in an HE. Have someone mark where the hot water setting is and where the long wash cycle is and run it a few times, adding nothing. A good sign is having zero bubbles during the cycle. I would avoid the sanitize cycle with the covers. I imagine the exposure to super hot water for a long period would age your covers quicker, but I could be wrong.
As for diapering 2 at the same time, keep in mind that your washer only holds so many diapers, so even if you have more in your stash, you will still have to wash when you reach, say 18 or so diapers. Having more diapers will cause less wear and tear as your rotation is larger, but you can still only wash your maximum in a load.
Folding down the front on a newborn can be with a little practice and feeling for the snaps once it is folded. Can you practice before baby comes? Sandy's may be easier, but I am sure you will get the hang of folding the one size. I know of people who successfully did one size with their 6lbs babies. It is bulky but that does not bother baby.
Looking forward to hearing about baby!!! |
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The sanitary cycle on a front-loader should work well to strip the diapers, and if you don't think they're good, just run them through again. If you have some vinegar, you could put that in the detergent drawer, but I think the very hot water is probably the key at this point.
I would NOT wash the covers on the sanitary cycle, though. They will probably survive, but I don't think it would be good for their longevity. I mean, once probably won't kill them, but if you have other clothes being washed, just toss them in there instead. I usually wash my covers on cold or warm, and that's fine to get them clean.
When I had a two-year-old and a newborn in diapers, I had about 40 diapers total. I probably washed every two or three days, and did line dry nearly exclusively. Just how often you'll have to wash will depend on how often baby is changed and how you dry, but getting more than about 36-40 diapers gets wasteful, since you can store and wash only so many at a time anyway.
I really appreciated the OS during that time because the same diaper fit my 6.5-lb baby and my 33-lb toddler. I would actually use up my S Sandys right away in the rotation, because 6 OS will go a lot farther than 6 S Sandys when you are waiting for diapers to get dry and you toddler has just pooped! The OS will definitely be bulky on a newborn, but one-piece outfits are great. My boys, totally different builds, both were able to wear most clothes for their aged sizes, as long as I stayed away from things with waists.
To do the newborn setting, if you have the OS in front of you, fold the top up as though you were going to put it on your toddler. Then fold the front part of it down about two or three inches (it will fold nicely just on top of where the extra layer is sewn inside), and you will feel snaps that are on the inside if the diaper is folded up, but are now facing outward (these are the snaps that are used to secure the snap-in liner inside the diaper when it's fully open, as for your toddler). There are two layers of snaps. The top is smooth--these are the backs of the snaps from the other side. The lower row is indented, the "female" snaps you'll need to snap into.
You'll need to line these snaps up with the snaps on the wings, so for now you can grab where the front folds over and slide it upwards (you can check you position now relative to the back, although when it's on the baby, obviously that's not an option). You'll figure it out on baby, but having the front folded over allows you to position the back of the diaper roughly where you would on an older child, somewhere around the waist; if you do that, the front of the diaper should naturally come to a height that will make it line up okay for snapping.
When the snaps are lined up, you fold the left wing in, and snap the left wing into the first and second holes from the left on the front part. Take the right wing and fold it over, snapping the right snap of the wing into the snap second from the right (right next to where the left wing is snapped). You still have the left snap on the right wing, and that goes into the middle position on the left wing--there is a "female" snap part on the top of the left wing. If you feel the left wing after you've snapped it, you'll feel smooth, indent, smooth, and the left snap from the right wing will snap into the indent.
Man, I hope that makes sense. I've been trying this out with my eyes closed, but I just hope I'm describing this okay. You can vary how you have things snapped, as you don't really need every single snap holding. So if you have a narrow-waisted baby, you can slide the left wing over one or even two positions. If you had it all the way over, you wouldn't have anything to snap the right snap of the right wing into, but you'd still secure that wing into the middle of the left wing. You could wrap it even tighter, by moving the left wing along and holding it with only one snap, or by fastening the right snap of the right wing into the middle of the left wing, but I can't imagine you'd need it that small.
When baby is big enough that you don't need to cross the wings, but still need the shorter rise, just fasten the left wing into the two left snap holes on the front, and the right wing into the two right holes on the snap front. Or slide even further out and hold by one snap if you need the width but baby's rise is still short. |
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| that does make sense. perhaps i can try it on that doll that my mother got me during my last pregnancy so that i could practice diapering. i am not sure about if i am pregnant or not because my emotions were crazy on saturday and sunday when my dh stayed the night with me when he came home from his class to stay the night. i was crying all over the place those 2 days,. and today, i am fine. however, i have just gotten off of my period 2 or so weeks ago and am slightly cramping. i am not sure if that would be a sign of extremely early pregnancy or not. and right now, we cannot afford a pregnancy test to find out for sure. i have just calculated in my head and today is day 21 of my cycle. oh yes, my breasts and nips are tender as well, especially when my ds nurses sorry if tmi. i am not nauseated or anything like that, but even now, i am more tired than usual. |
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