How To Wash Cloth Diapers
. How to care for cloth diapers
Washing your diapers isn't as hard as you might think!
You should start off with washing your diapers every one to three days the more you wash them the more you don't have to worry about stains. Contains affiliate links.
1. How To Get started with storing them in a dry diaper pail. You can either use a large wet bag that you can also wash with your diapers or you can use a five gallon garbage can that has the lid opener with your foot. That makes it so easy! You can ether line the garbage can with a wet bag or use disposable bags. If you are out and about put your soiled diapers in a traveling wet bag this also comes in handy if you have soiled clothes and need a place to put them!
2. Preparing Soiled Diaper For Washing
Wet diapers: take the inert out of the diaper and place it in the diaper pail.
Dirty diapers: take the insert out and fold it in half dirty sides out then using a diaper sprayer and holding the diaper front and back edges together above the toilet and spray down one side then turn and spray off the other side.
note: If your baby is eating food or formula you will need to spray your diapers off. But if your baby is nursing you don't need to worry about this!
3. Washing Diapers, after accumulating one to three days of diapers you can wash them. Start with putting the diapers in your washer and running them on the regular cycle with one scoop of detergent. After that is done you will run the washer another time with two scoops of detergent and 1/3 cup of Clorox (this will get your diapers extra white and kill any bacteria) on the longest/soiled setting. They should come out nice and white and not smell at all like Clorox! If you don't want to use Clorox consider drying your diapers out in the sun. The sun is a natural bleacher! CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO WHITEN CLOTH DIAPERS NATURAL
4. Drying Your Diapers you and ether use the dryer on low or hang dry them. I will say that they don't come out of the dryer completely dry so I always hang dry them. You can hang them in your house and us a dehumidifier to speed up the process or out side in the sun which is a natural bleacher so that is a way to get them white also. (Note, if you prefer to use the dryer to dry your cloth diapers you should always dry on low. The dryer is harder on cloth diapers so it does decrease its life span.)
