Hello, today we're gonna be talking about pee and poop. I know exciting!
Okay, so today I'm gonna be adding to the series which I started a while ago and I never continued it. Oopsie!
That's talking about cloth diapering.
So before I had mentioned about the pros and cons related to cloth diapering.
Today I wanted to talk about what do you do to clean your cloth diapers now?
I know there's a few different options and I'm just gonna let you know what I do
and then I'll give you two options for the drying part.
Okay, so let's just get started!
First I'm just using a wet bag.
So I put all the diapers into the wet bag. If you want to separate the poop and the pee you can.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
Then I go down into my washer and dryer
and I.....
tpically have like a plastic bag or something to throw the wipes in
because we do use regular wipes.
So I tend to keep those in the diapers.
So I just if it's pee in the diaper and that's it, I just open it,
throw the wipe out, pull out the insert, because I have pocket diapers,
pull out the insert, and put it into the washer.
If it's poop kind of depends if it's a more solid poop,
then I can just open it and put the poop into the plastic bag.
Then just go ahead and put that into the washer.
If it's a little bit more like diarrhea or something like that, a little bit less solid,
then I do have a sink right next to my washer.
So there I can use that or you can use a shower, whatever you want to do,
but I just tend to use the sink.
Just turn it on kind of like full force, so it's really fast water,
and then I get all the poop out into the sink and then
later if I need to... like solid pieces, I can wipe those and throw them out.
So I put those all into the washer.
Then you can add in to your detergent some people prefer to use powder.
Some people prefer to use liquid.
I prefer to use liquid and I just use regular Tide.
No additional, just the original Tide HE.
But original Tide.
Then put any detergent, close the lid, and then for mine I tend to use the heavy-duty.
You can use normal, but I just tend to use heavy-duty.
Um, then there's a pre-soak
and then I add in a second rinse.
You can add in like a spin a second spin if you want,
but just make sure there's a second rinse. That's really important.
It kind of depends on your washer, which type you have. Some people will do...
like a rinse and spin first
and then they'll go ahead and do their regular cycle.
So that's perfectly fine.
I just tend to put everything in, do the pre-soak,
do the heavy-duty, and then do the second rinse,
and then I'll use the soil level to be heavy.
If it's all just pee then you wouldn't need to do the heavy soil level.
So then I've got that and then once I'm done with that,
I take everything and there's two options.
If you're a good person, unlike me, you will use like a dry rack.
Which I'll show you here.
You can, you know use a rack either outside if you have that you can clothespin it outside
or you can just use the line rack like I have here and do that.
That would mean you need to leave them overnight or throughout the entire day,
just depending when you wash your diapers.
If you're in a hurry, which I typically am because I usually forget,
I put them into the dryer. Now if you do put them into the dryer you could...
ruin some of the PUL lining inside the diaper.
That's the barrier part. So that could kind of fade a little bit quicker.
But again, that's up to you. If you're busy. You might want to just use the dryer.
I've been using that for a while because I'm bad.
If you use the dryer, I just put that on
a regular... I always tend to use the more dry cycle on mine.
If you do have hemp inserts,
then those are gonna take longer to dry even with the MORE DRY cycle.
Still, I typically have to take those out and then leave them to dry overnight, regardless.
So just kind of FYI on that.
But typically you just... I put it on the MORE DRY... leave it.
I don't put any of the dryer sheets or anything inside there.
Just leave that go. Once that's done,
Usually most things are fine and that's usually what I do to clean my diapers.
So I'm just curious what do you guys do to clean your diapers?
Do you use different settings? Do you always use a dry rack or....
do you use an electronic dryer?
Let me know. I'm curious your routine.
But just like I said, usually I do this like every about two days.
It just depends on how many diapers you have.
But if you use... well, yeah if you use the dry rack
just remember you need to leave those overnight
or like I said all day for them to dry.
But if you use an actual like dryer, then it doesn't really matter.
It's just the regular cycle and then they're done
Okay again, leave a comment down below.
Let me know if you use cloth diapers what your routine is for cleaning?
Washer, dryer?
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