https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:11:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cloth-diaper-mold#post-1958402 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:08:25 +0000 sorrycharlie 1958402@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have bleached and had no damage. As long as you do the correct ratio (1 tablespoon per gallon of water) and mix well before adding diapers it's okay. I would check out <a href="http://www.fluffloveuniversity.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.fluffloveuniversity.com</a> . BumGenius detergent is really, really weak! </p> [attach=1296/14/nfk7zy.508x600.bleach.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cloth-diaper-mold#post-1958365 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:54:18 +0000 BadgerMom 1958365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got mold on one diaper once - I think it happened because I left it in the wet bag too long. I have never had a problem leaving the diapers in the washer overnight. But I dry them in the dryer on low, so maybe that makes a difference?</p> <p>We just did the suggested BG stripping routine because our diapers wreaked of ammonia when LO would pee even a little. I just kept washing them over and over all day (after the first wash with dawn and bleach) and by about wash 4 or 5 the bleach smell was gone. No damage to the colors. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cloth-diaper-mold#post-1958339 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:44:42 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1958339@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MenagerieMama: we have the 4.0s and also got black dots on a few. I thought it was mold, my husband thought it was trapped poop particles. We did a mega-wash and sunned them. The spots didn't completely go away (although they eventually did) and our son's bum was fine. We did a bleach wash a few months ago (after over a year of use) and it was easy as pie. Just follow the instructions on the bum genius website. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cloth-diaper-mold#post-1958026 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:30:40 +0000 MenagerieMama 1958026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I felt like I had been doing everything by the books, and we're about 6 weeks into our cloth diaper adventure with a stash of BG 4.0s, but a couple days ago I noticed black dots on about half the diapers and it appears to be mold! I was every 2-3 days with the BG detergent, keep everything in a flip top garbage pail with the lid cracked, lined with a Planet Wise pail liner. I line dry everything and try and make sure things get sunned (or clouded depending on the weather!) before getting put away. The only thing I can think of that may have caused the mold is there were 1-2 times I ran the diaper laundry at night and went to bed without hanging up the diapers until the morning. We have a covered deck I dry our laundry on and you go through our bedroom (where LO sleeps) to get to it, and she fell asleep before the laundry finished and I was too afraid to wake her up to go through! There also have been a couple times I kept things on the deck "drying" in the rain, although they were covered from the rain, but I suppose it was wet out in general. The diaper pail is in the nursery, but it is right next to the bathroom that gets more humid. </p> <p>Anyhow, all the moldy diapers have since been sunned which theoretically kills the mold - but does it really? I'm going to do a bleach wash like BG recommends, but I was too scared to do it until now. I feel like at least this will kill everything. Although I usually wash about 12-14 diapers at once (we have a stash of about 20), so how will I deal with the ones not in the wash? I don't want to bleach any of them twice in a row.</p> <p>Anyone go through this before? Anyone done the bleach wash and can hold my hand while I do it? I just imagine everything coming out smelling like a swimming pool and covered in white blotches!! I also don't want to lose my stash to this yucky black dot plague that I don't have a really good reason to have started! </p>