Help: Washing Q. Currently washing 1st load of CD's

carolinakiwi

Ladies, please bear with my CD newbie question.  I currently have our 1st load of dirty CD's in the wash.  I did a cold wash first with an extra rinse and am currently on the hot wash.  I used the EFF homemade "detergent" in both the cold and hot washes.

I noticed though that after the cold wash, all of the poopy diapers (EBF) are still 100% stained with poo.  They look like they haven't gone through the wash at all. I am hoping that the hot wash gets the poopy color out.

If you wash your CD's first in a cold wash, does the poop color come out then or does it wait to come out in the hot wash?

Dr.Loretta

I don't really pay attention to them until the end of the entire wash cycle, and they look fine. They may stain here and there, but such is the nature of cloth diapers. You can sun them out if they concern you.

heatherkj

We have yellow poop stains on all of our cloth diapers. It stains. There's not much you can do about it, unfortunately. Like pp said, if you want, you can lay the diapers in the sun and that gets rid of the stains. I've done it a few times with our covers, but don't care enough to do it with the prefolds.

roundtheworldgirl

heatherkj:

We have yellow poop stains on all of our cloth diapers. It stains. There's not much you can do about it, unfortunately. Like pp said, if you want, you can lay the diapers in the sun and that gets rid of the stains. I've done it a few times with our covers, but don't care enough to do it with the prefolds.

This.  The sun works wonders on diapers.  But stains are also a part of cloth diapering.  It really bugged me at first, too, but eventually I got used to it.

carolinakiwi

lucy460:

roundtheworldgirl:

heatherkj:

We have yellow poop stains on all of our cloth diapers. It stains. There's not much you can do about it, unfortunately. Like pp said, if you want, you can lay the diapers in the sun and that gets rid of the stains. I've done it a few times with our covers, but don't care enough to do it with the prefolds.

This.  The sun works wonders on diapers.  But stains are also a part of cloth diapering.  It really bugged me at first, too, but eventually I got used to it.

Yup. At first I was like, "oh no! yellow/orange stains!"  so I sunned more. Now I just don't really care. But you can sun them if you want.

Thanks ladies. I knew that stains would be common and that I could sun the diapers, but I guess I didn't realize how bright the stains would be....it looks fresh, like nothing washed out.

But I am sunning them now so I hope it helps. DH was disappointed to see stains, so I want to keep them as clean looking as possible for his sake. :-)

I asked bc all the diapers that I bought used from other mommas, there were either absolutely none, or few faded stains.

roundtheworldgirl

carolinakiwi:

lucy460:

roundtheworldgirl:

heatherkj:

We have yellow poop stains on all of our cloth diapers. It stains. There's not much you can do about it, unfortunately. Like pp said, if you want, you can lay the diapers in the sun and that gets rid of the stains. I've done it a few times with our covers, but don't care enough to do it with the prefolds.

This.  The sun works wonders on diapers.  But stains are also a part of cloth diapering.  It really bugged me at first, too, but eventually I got used to it.

Yup. At first I was like, "oh no! yellow/orange stains!"  so I sunned more. Now I just don't really care. But you can sun them if you want.

Thanks ladies. I knew that stains would be common and that I could sun the diapers, but I guess I didn't realize how bright the stains would be....it looks fresh, like nothing washed out.

But I am sunning them now so I hope it helps. DH was disappointed to see stains, so I want to keep them as clean looking as possible for his sake. :-)

I asked bc all the diapers that I bought used from other mommas, there were either absolutely none, or few faded stains.

I have noticed this too on my used diapers.  I personally think a lot of people bleach diapers before selling ... or are way better than I am at getting stains out.