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Are you breastfeeding or formula feeding? Breast milk poop is water soluble so just a cool rinse cycle and then a normal cycle is fine. It might stain but you can lay them out in the sun on a blanket and then wash again if you’re worried about that. Some people bleach theirs but I don’t allow bleach in my house. We store dirty diapers in a dry pail not wet and wash daily or every other day tops. You can add a little baking soda to the cool rinse cycle to help too. For formula poop I would probably rinse before storing poopy ones.
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Ok so I’ve started using a couple AIOs and today I’m doing prefolds. Do you pre rinse the poo and get/keep the diaper wet? The AIOs are already dried out because it was during a time when he wasn’t peeing/pooping that much. But today with the prefolds it’s like soaked and there’s a lot more poo so I’m sure they’d stay wet in a bag. How do you get these clean or will they get clean in the washer with the multiple cycles? We don’t have sunshine so I can’t hang dry most of the days.
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Da
A wet pail is full of water and a dry pail isn’t. I feel like wet pails get moldy and gross faster. I have a Dekor diaper pail upstairs that is like a diaper genie but instead of disposable liners I use a large pail liner wet bag and then I can just pull it out, carry to the laundry, and d ump it in to wash. Downstairs I just use a large zippered wet bag and take it up at night and do the same thing.
Ri
I used a wet soaking pail.for the first couple of weeks but every where i red said it wasn't necessary and was just real smelly. I put all my nappies in with all the other washing... rinse poo ones before I chuck them in. then put the whole load on a rinse cycle then a wash cycle. I just treat them like all the other clothes in the house and I used sunlight soap gel as my washing liquid
St
Breastfeeding...what’s a dry pail vs wet?
Baby poop is water soluble until they start eating solids, regardless of whether they're formula or breastfed. Though if the poop is especially thick, like the consistency of peanut butter, I would personally spray it off and squeeze out as much excess water as I could before putting in the bag, just to give my washer less work to do.
If you’re exclusively breastfeeding, it’s super easy. I’d recommend throwing the diapers in an open wet bag (they actually don’t stink so much in the beginning) until wash day. And you can just wash them normally. Throw them all in the wash for a rinse cycle (with or without a bit of soap - your call). Then a heavy duty wash, hot water, extra rinse, with plenty of soap. Then go ahead and dry them how you normally would. They may stain a bit, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t clean. Also, if you don’t want to use bleach occasionally, I’d recommend doing an extra wash with Grovia Mighty Bubbles every 6 weeks or so. Works for us!
If you wash every 2-3 days then you can toss dirty and wet diapers into a wet bag or diaper pail or whatever you’re using and do nothing until wash day (assuming you breastfeed rather than formula). I prefer putting wet diapers in an open wet bag. The air actually makes them smell less. Dirty ones go in a diaper pail with a wet bag as the liner. You don’t have to pre rinse or soak anything. When I wash, I do a quick cycle first and then add other stuff (burp cloths, towels, whatever) and run a regular cycle. You can machine dry but be careful not to use super hot water or high heat on anything that has TPU or PUL (the waterproof part of the diapers and wet bags) as you can damage it.
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