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Mostly you just have to find what works for you.

We have bum genius 4.0 and cotton prefolds and have soft water and a front loading washer. I wash chunks out in the toilet and store in a pail with a wet bag for 3-4 days. Wash plan is pre wash on quick wash cold with extra water and half the soap (Kirkland free and clear) then wash hot with extra water. I hang dry.

I traveled somewhere with hard water and it was really hard to clean the micro fiber.

Sometimes my nanny washes the diapers and I don't think she does the pre wash cold cycle Ave they turn out fine but I wouldn't do that every time. Now that I have an infant the pre wash is more important for yellow baby poop.

I think diaper washing is not as big a deal as people make it out to be...

Mime come out clean. I do unsruff then before I wash because the don't come apart on their own in my washer.

My hard water experience left diapers stained and smelling...

I also have bumgenius 4.0s. I spray the poop in the toilet and then store diapers and cloth wipes I n a wet bag in a diaper pail until I'm ready to wash. I wash on Wednesdays and Sundays and have 24 diapers for my 13 month old. I use country save powder. One scoop in warm quick wash (prewash) and 1.5 scoops + 2 scoops borax (for hard water) in the main wash on the hot heavy white cycle. I hang dry the pockets and dry the inserts and my cloth wipes in the dryer on low. I don't wash anything else with my diapers. We have had zero stink/stain issues but again, you have to find what works for you

ETA: I wash the small wet bags that I send to daycare with the diapers but I don't wash the pail liners because I had issues with some diapers not coming clean because they would get wrapped up in the pail liner during the cycle.

We graduated out of diapers this summer (CD'ed for almost 2 years) but I washed very similarly to @DesertDreams88: I used Persil but other detergents are generally fine, as long as they're strong enough and you use the recommended amount. If I didn't have enough diapers for a full load, I would do the prewash with diapers only and add clothes to the main wash, since they're already much cleaner (generally just baby clothes - don't add anything too big or it might not agitate properly).

ETA: I did dry diapers, inserts, and wet bags/pail liners in dryer on medium heat - no issues.

@pachamama: we had diaper pail. and did laundry every few days. we kept them dry in between . where possible we would air dry rather than put them in the dryer
we didnt pre was and we didnt wash with other laundry

I use mostly bumgenius Freetimes, which are microfiber. I do a quick wash with half detergent then a heavy wash with full detergent (I use Tide original powder, as I think it's the faintest smelling full-strength detergent).

Since we have a front loader, it is important to fill it to 3/4 full to get good agitation, so I have to bulk up the heavy wash. I add anything that can handle a heavy wash, like kitchen towels.

For poop, we plop it into the toilet then I apply liquid detergent over any poop marks (I just squirt it on with a squeeze bottle). I used to soak them in the utility sink with borax or biz, but I found the detergent method to be cleaner. Either way, we have zero stains. You don't have to do these things; I just have a personal preference for nice white diapers.

I wash every three days which is based on how many diapers we have and so we aren't doing diapers constantly. We store them in a wet bag (liner) in a trash can. You need to get the poop off the diapers. We have a diaper sprayer attached to the toilet and have a spray pal to get the poop off that doesn't just plop into the toilet. You absolutely need to do a pre-wash. That's just a short/quick wash cycle on your washer. This removes the worst of the gunk so the diapers get super clean in the main wash by having clean water to clean them. You can bulk the main wash load by adding items no larger than a swaddle blanket. I use our cleaning rags and dish towels. I line dry every thing in the summer but now that it is winter I dry the inserts in the dryer and hang the shells/AIO's in the laundry room. I use Tide original detergent.