Hi everybody. I love cloth diapers and I'm going to tell you why.
Today, we're actually, mostly going to be focusing on washing,
the washing technique of cloth diapering. I have pre-folds and we're going to be
talking about how I wash my pre-folds. But I also want to explain to you just really
briefly why I love cloth diapers so much, and show you one of my most favorite tools
that I use with the cloth diapering and the cleaning of cloth diapering.
So, stay tuned.
Okay, guys, today is wash day. As I said, we are going to do a load of cloth
diapers. I keep my diapers in the garage because they smell a little bit,
and I usually only go about three days because otherwise, they would really
smell. So out here in the garage, I have a trash can with a lid,
and you're going to want the lid because they're kind of smelly.
Anyways, so I've got the trash can out here, keep it in the garage,
and this is the first step for doing the diapers.
Take off the smelly lid. They do start to smell a little bit, believe it or not.
Weird right? We're going to do one rinse with...to get kind of the urine out.
And if there's any bits of food or poo or anything like that, you're going to want
to rinse that out before you actually start with the soap cycle.
So, on here, I'm going to select the rinse and spin, and I'm going to do it on cold
because there is no sense in using hot water for this yet since
really the only thing your doing is just giving it a good rinse to get the
preliminary pee out, if you will.
So it's on cold and spin speed is high, and I'm going to turn on my cycle signal
so it's loud so I can be reminded. So I'm going to turn on my cycle,
we're going to do rinse, be right back. Okay, our first part of washing our cloth
diapers is complete. We set it on rinse and spin to get out the pee like I
explained. So, that's done and complete. So our diapers are in there,
they're wet but they have not been washed yet. So we're going to start in on the
next step as far as washing the diapers. We use this Biokleen laundry detergent.
It's unscented, it's free and clear of dyes and fragrances. I like it because of
those reasons. And it's also better for the environment, I feel.
Do your research though as far as what works for you guys for washing your cloth
diapers. I can tell you though, you don't want to use Tide. Nothing against Tide,
it's just not right for cloth diapers. Some of the stuff that's in the
traditional laundry detergents can strip out all the good things in the diapers and
make them less absorbent. So you want to make sure whatever you're using is safe
for cloth diapers.
So, I use the Biokleen. And what I'm going to do is, I usually do a full cap,
and then we're going to turn it and switch it over to... I just do normal casual on
mine, if you have a heavy duty, you can do that too. I do normal casual because our
water gets super hot here, so I don't really worry too much about that.
Plus were going to do two wash cycles. So, I guess if you only wanted to do one wash
cycle, you could do a heavy duty if...or the sanitary if you wanted to.
But I do two of the, just the normal. And I'm going to set it on to hot,
so it's got the hot wash and it's going to have a cold rinse. And again,
I've got my cycle signal on loud so I will be told, "Come fix me!" when they are all
done. Yeah, so that's it. So we're going to start on the second step and I will be
back again for the third step.
Alright, everybody. So, we've got two parts of our three down.
We did a rinse cycle first, we've done a wash cycle for our cloth diapers and now
I'm going to check them and we're going to do the third and final piece.
There's a little bit of soap left that I can see, so we're definitely going to want
to do another cycle, but I'm going to check them out, give them a sniff,
make sure they're on the right track. Okay, they smell pretty clean.
Now part of this is due to the fact that I have this awesome diaper sprayer.
We've actually done a video on it before so if you want to check that out,
we should have a little card here where you can do that and it's super handy.
We'll also have some information in it, in the description about it.
So if you want to check it out, go ahead.
Anyways, basically what it is, is it enables me to rinse off the diapers when
there's poo and that gets a lot of the junk off when it is kind of fresh,
basically, so it's not sitting in there like funking, getting gross.
So, that's part of it, but the other part of it is that we've done the rinse and
we've done a super hot cycle. Now, because the diapers aren't super soiled,
I'm not going to do another soap cycle, but I am going to do one more full normal
cycle on hot, with no soap, just to do a final rinse. To make sure that we get all
the soap out. Because as I just said, there is a lot bit of soap residue left,
and I do not want any of that on little baby's bottom because that could cause
irritation. Plus, you don't want the soap buildup in your cloth diapers because that
can kind of cause a problem that you'll have to deal with later.
So, I'm going to do one more hot cycle and then I'll check back in with you guys.
See there is some of the residual soap that we want to make sure we get rid of.
As I mentioned earlier, I love cloth diapers. Number one, it's part of like
helping towards the environment, I'm not throwing diapers away.
Now don't get me wrong, I do a mix of both. I do cloth diaper when we're at home
but I also use disposable. So I'm not super militant about my cloth diapering
because I totally get it.
There are some days where it's just going to be easier to do disposable.
When we're out shopping or when we travel, for example. I'm not taking cloth diapers
when we travel because that's just a little bit more than I want to deal with.
However, when we're at home and we're just chilling, which we are a lot of
the time, I am totally all about cloth diapering because when she gets wet,
I want to change her. But I feel bad, you know you get the diaper,
and there's just one little bit of pee in there. And it's like I don't want to leave
a wet diaper on her but at the same time, you know, it's like I'm wasting a diaper
and I feel bad wrapping up that diaper up and throwing it in the trash.
So, my happy spot is when we're home, I cloth diaper. And because I've probably
got of this particular size, this is the size large I believe. Of this particular
size, I've probably got 50 or 60 diapers and so, I'm good. I wash every three days
or so. And when we're home, I...it makes me feel good. So, definitely,
like for the environment. That's one of the issues. Number two,
economically, it makes a lot of sense for our family. We're a single income family,
I'm a stay-at-home mom. And, any little bit I can ease off of having to pay for
things, I'm going to do it. And I've done the math, washing cloth diapers is by far
cheaper than buying disposable diapers as you would imagine.
Now, once you get... I mean there is an initial investment, but once you get past
that initial investment, it's super cheap. I think we figured out that it was under
$1 a load. So, that makes a lot of sense for me. So those are two huge
reasons why I love cloth diapering, plus, there's something really adorable about a
big ol' cloth diaper booty on a baby. I think it's super cute. So those are the
things that I really...two of the biggest things, there's other things I like about
cloth diapering, but the two big things for me.
Okay everybody. The third cycle is done, and I believe that's all we're going to do
as far as washing goes. So, we did the rinse and we've done two wash cycles.
The first wash cycle had soap, of course, the second one did not just to make sure
we got all the soap out. So I am going to take them out. They smell good.
They're definitely clean. No soap residue, and now I'm going to throw them in the
dryer. And actually, during the summer time, I usually hang dry them outside.
We have this amazing rack which is kind of collapsed right now.
There is actually nothing better than drying them in the sunshine because A,
the sun is bleaching them out naturally, and B, you're not using any energy to dry
them. But, we have been having some kind of weird weather today,
so I am going to be putting them in the dryer. Now, when you dry them in the
dryer, you want to use a hot heat. Because you want to make sure they get completely
dry. Because you don't want to put them away with any moisture in there because of
the possibility of mold. It's not a great possibility, but you don't want to mess
around with that.
So, in the dryer, they go. So, I will dry them probably for about 45, 50 minutes and
check them, just to make sure that they are completely dry. Okay, so,
that's it. Not too hard right? Doesn't look so bad? It's actually not bad at all.
You just pick a day when you're going to be around for a couple hours,
or set timers, or turn your dinger up on your washing machine so it's really loud
and annoying when it's done. And then you're done. You have a big ol' pile of
fresh, clean, not chemically yucky, nothing. You have this nice pile of clean
cloth diapers that you just washed and you're ready to put on your baby.
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