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I’m still here, and I’m still rinsing diapers!
I got my RLR laundry treatment. I can’t keep my kiddo in disposables, even a few hours leaves his hiney with raised, red welts. So I bought two packets and washed the diapers in two batches. Then I rinsed, rinsed and rinsed some more.
Yesterday I decided to declare war. It’s full fledged warfare, me vs. the diapers.
I started by soaking them in bac out and lil outlaws most of the day. Then I did a cold heavy duty wash with a 3 hour soak and extra rinse. I followed that up with a hot heavy duty wash with an extra warm rinse.
Then, it was just me and the inserts. My diapers hung over the washing machine and the inserts gave them a panicked look. They should know better than to mess with me!
>Well. I’d hoped that since I’ve been using Lil Outlaws detergent and cloth safe diaper cream, I wouldn’t have to strip my diapers. I’ve finally succumbed to the microfiber stink! They weren’t particularly offensive, just rather musty smelling. This particular smell appears to be very common with BumGenius diapers.
To strip diapers, you use the classic blue dawn, or plain ivory dish soap, suds the diapers up, then rinse until there are no more suds. This can be a lot of rinsing, so I did only 5-7 at a time, since I only have 15.
>Part of my going with the flow has actually been not using a diaper pail. I went from 3 to 6 to 12 to 15 diapers, so I was/am constantly washing. I was essentially using my washing machine as a diaper pail, which only became a problem when I was doing laundry (pretty much every other day).
When that happened, I just put the diaper sin the utility sink. That’s fine, but it can get a little smelly.
If my husband changes a diaper, he just puts the dirty one there, and I have to fold the laundry tabs and pull the insert.
I’ve been interested in trying a pail liner, probably one with a drawstring, to see if it would fit in my diaper dekor pail. However, since I wash daily, it seems like an extra step. It would work wonderfully if all diapers had their laundry tabs folded in and their inserts removed before being put in the pail, so I could just dump it into the washer and go. Otherwise I’ll be left wading through a dozen stinky diapers to find inserts & tabs. I’d probably still miss one and up with a diaper chain and an insert wadded up inside a diaper.
So the other thought was keeping a wet bag in the laundry room . I wanted to do that anyway so I had a good place to keep dirties after spraying. If I put them all in there, my husband could still just put the rare diaper he changes, into the sink. It’s a short trip to the laundry room, which is outside my kitchen, so it’s really no big deal.