I'm just getting into cloth diapering and I'm wondering if it is ok to wash other clothes with them. My baby is currently exclusively breastfed if that makes a difference.
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I've never washed clothes with cloth diapers.
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I don't..... They go through a whole long process and not the same wash cycle that my clothes go through (cold rinse, gentle cycle hot, and two cold rinses) and my normal clothes just go through a normal wash, so it wouldn't make sense to do them together. I also use different detergent.
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Yep, i do. I first do a soak/rinse with cold water, and once that's done i'll throw the clothes in there. More clothes mean more water, which mean cleaner diapers.
(i make sure the poop is rinsed off with a sprayer or in the soak cycle before the clothes go in though)
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I don't really worry about it because I use a really long wash cycle (pre-rinse, extra wash, extra rinse).
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I do... but it's complicated. First... rinse the diapers alone with HOT water. Then add the clothes. Then smell the diapers and make sure they actually came out clean. Move the clothes to the dryer, rinse the diapers again (to get out any detergent residue).
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I wash them separately.
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@Beyond2: We mistakenly did this in the beginning and realized it was a bad idea because her regular clothes kinda had a smell even though the diapers smelt fine. It was weird. So now we wash the diapers separately with the pail liner. Our LO was also exclusively breast fed at the time
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I keep the diapers separate.
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Nope. I think that's icky... but my son is now on solids too!
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@pastemoo: i always thought it was cold first, to make sure the diapers don't stain? Have i been doing it wrong this whole time?? :S i just follow the directions on the rockin green detergent bag.
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I will wash my shells with clothes, but the actual cloth inserts I wash separately. Cold Wash no detergent, Warm Wash (per the instructions) with detergent, Cold Wash no detergent, 3-5 rinses. We have really really hard water.
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I wash together.
I do a COLD prerinse with just diapers.
Then I put everything else in WITH SOAP and wash HOT, rinse COLD, extra rinse.
It is not gross at all. In fact, once I ALMOST dried my diapers after the cold pre-rinse, and they were almost totally clean. I just thought hmmmm these are slightly stained more than normal.....then it hit me. So, I'm telling you, after the pre-rinse, they are almost totally clean and are super fine to wash with clothes.
Plus, the disposable diaper people get 'blowouts' all the time (which cloth diapers seem to avoid--yay) and those people are washing their clothes with the poop and it's all good.
My poop is still EBF. When it gets solids-yucky I'll be using a diaper sprayer, and suspect I can still then do the same routine.
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@caffeinated: I do same as you.
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I sometimes throw other stuff in there with them--like the nursing tanks I wear to bed (I refuse to wear nursing pads at night and wake up damp) or his blankets and clothes.
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I used to, at the little baby stage when they seem to go through sleepers like no one's business.
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@caffeinated: I have a wet pail (cold/room temp water), not a wetbag that the dirty diapers go it so I can do the first wash hot. I don't have any stain issues yet....@cvbee: Agreed! I used to wash separately until I realized all baby stuff is pretty gross.
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