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Dd has been dry for about a month. We are only using CDs for naps and night now. I've been washing the diapers with my regular laundry. Does anyone else do this or do you continue to do separate diaper laundry?
I live in a country with limited water resources so I don't like the idea of running a wash for only a few diapers. However, I have build up issues and my diapers just don't smell clean straight out of the wash  . |
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| we are still fulltime cding, but when i only have a few diapers to do, i just throw them in with towels or my regular laundry. if you use cloth menstrual pads as well, i would suggest doing the same. throwing them in with diapers and towels and things. where do you live if you dont mind me asking? |
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| I have the same problem now since I have only one diaper a day to deal with, or even every few days (my son wears them for naps and night, but they often stay dry). I soak the overnight diapers in water until wash day since they really smell, and it's especially important now that it can be 3-4 days between washes. I try to wash them on hot when I can with towels and the like. It seems to work decently, although I do think they smell a bit less fresh than they used to. I figure it will work for now as long as they don't really develop a smell or cause a rash. I haven't really found a solution so I'll be curious to see what others say - I am due with #2 at the end of August, so I figure if I can last until then the problem will be solved by the return of the daily wash! |
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We've been down to night-only diapers for about a year now. I tend to go 3-5 days (sometimes he alternates dry nights, but even if it's only one diaper, I don't go longer than 5 days). I rinse out the diaper really well and use a soggy pail. If it's getting stinky, I will sometimes do a wet pail. I put the diapers and anything like dishcloths, kid-dinner-face-cloths, muddy socks, accident underwear, that sort of thing, through a pre-wash with hot water and a splash of vinegar. I try to catch it before it goes through the rinse cycle, to save the water. Sometimes I just do a cold rinse, but I like the idea of the hotter water. Then I toss in all of our other whites/hot (thus this is the type of laundry that I tend to be most caught-up on) and do a hot wash with detergent. Maybe twice this year I've run all six of the diapers I'm still using through a sanitary cycle (with dishcloths, etc., anything that might benefit from the heat). I haven't had any real issues with stink/build up. I've run out of the Country Save I had been using on the diapers/whites, so am curious to see how the citrus/eco detergent I've been using on the rest of the laundry works.
Anyway, I do prefer to do some sort of rinse on the diapers first just to get rid of most of the urine, but hate the idea of wasting the water/electricity on running just a few diapers by themselves. |
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Thanks for the input! I didn't think that I could go that long between washes. I think that if I was only washing every 4-5 days then maybe I will designate a diaper wash. I also like the idea of prewashing the diapers and then washing them with whites that can stand a hot wash.
A couple of questions:
1) What do you put in your wet pail besides water?
2) How much detergent do you use in a regular wash that also includes diapers? Do you do an extra rinse?
(I live in Israel) |
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I never use anything except water if I wet pail. I used to when I started out, because I thought I had to, but found it to be troublesome. I eventually just switched to a dry pail, but with rinsing those night diapers out it's soggy anyway, and if I wait a while between loads, just having water in there seems to help. You can always change out the water.
Not sure if I said this in pp, but when I run the rinse/quick wash on the diapers/other heavily soiled things, I put vinegar in with them in detergent drawer. With the normal load, I just use the same amount of detergent as always, since I use the same amount for diapers and regular laundry, about 1/4 of the recommended amount. I don't do any extra rinse. I guess I figure that the pre-rinse with vinegar (and I like to do hot water) can help to keep the build-up away, too. |
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