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Oh my friend, I'm so sorry. I'm bumping this for you!

You could throw a towel in with your diapers to trick the washer into thinking you need more water.

@Chillybear: I miss them. We quit using them a few months ago because H kept peeing out of them and I was doing so much laundry.

I hope your new washer works well for them!

I didn't realize until after we bought our washer that it doesn't have a pre-wash function. I was glad that we don't CD any more because I didn't even think to check for that feature, I just assumed it would be there.

What you could do instead is run a rinse and spin cycle, and then run a regular cycle, maybe the deep water wash.

We have an HE top loader (new as of a few months ago) and it works fine! I run a plain rinse cycle first (which took a little bit of figuring out to find how that worked but it does it) and then put in the wash cycle. I feel like with the rinse it gets heavy enough to have the water it needs, but it also has a deep water cycle, but I'm worried that would be too soupy to wash. There is the occasional diaper that makes it through about once a week that somehow didn't get the poop clean - it got tucked in the pail liner or wadded in a ball or something, but I just put it in the next wash and it's fine. That being said, our last rental also had a top loader without an agitator (can't remember if it was HE as well) so I've never used the "best" washers for cloth diapers.

ETA: Our wash routine is this: plain rinse/spin, then "whites" wash on heavy duty with "clean boost" (whatever that is) with a scoop of Tide powder. No extra rinse (I never really saw a difference so I stopped). Then hang dry pockets and inserts/wipes in dryer.