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Skipping the First Soak/Rinse with CD's

kbk84kbk84 member
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Can you skip the first cold water cycle that is typically recommended with CD's? My husband and I are planning to use prefolds for the most part and we live in an apartment complex where we pay to wash, just curious if we should be planning to pay for 2 wash cycles per load or if we can get by with one.

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Re: Skipping the First Soak/Rinse with CD's

  • tommigirletommigirle
    i do a hot wash with a cold rinse at the end. no real problems except for some staining, but i think i'd have stains either way--the girl eats blueberries like they're going out of style. i also have some stink issues w/ my nighttime diapers, but that is related to not enough rinsing of the soap, i think. try it and see!
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  • kmgourleykmgourley
    I think you're going to want to do 2 washes, despite the cost.  If you are only doing one, then the diapers are being "cleaned" in poopy urine water.  Even though there's soap in there, too, they're not going to get as clean as you want.  The first rinse or wash is to get off as much icky as possible, so that the detergent and diapers can really have a go in the second wash cycle to get very clean.  If the diapers aren't clean enough, bacteria can eat at your baby's bum and no one wants that.
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  • kbk84kbk84 member
    Does spraying the diaper or using a flushable liner make a difference? Just curious! Thanks for your inputs!
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  • papiepapie member

    imagekbk84:
    Does spraying the diaper or using a flushable liner make a difference? Just curious! Thanks for your inputs!

    Not really, because some of the poo is really sticky, so it won't come out with spraying, you'd have to soak/rub, like our mothers used to do. ?And often the poo will go around the liners, so it won't get it all off when you take it out. ??

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  • adncarrieadncarrie

    just an idea - haven't tried this myself - but maybe you could cold soak & rinse in your bathtub before you throw them in a wetbag and take them to the laundry for a hot wash? 

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  • smurfetteinredsmurfetteinred

    I know there's a group of women on the dsd board that still swear by using wet pails (minus the 70/ 80's bleach mentality) if it's really a big deal for you to do the extra rinse then maybe this would be an option for you. BUT it's a drowning hazard so I'd recommend keeping it in the bathroom with the door closed rather than in the nursery if you're going to go that route.

    I know some people that have good luck in later months by skipping the first rinse (didn't work for us at all) but when you're still in the nb stage poop is much more of a liquid than a solid and you just can't get it all off (and it's honestly easier on you to let the machine do it anyway). I wouldn't want my main wash to be in the water that was generated from that mess. 

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  • jen5-03jen5-03 member

    I think it would be worth trying, especially if you use a diaper sprayer (I've never used one though). You can try the liners too, but I think they won't work well with NB poo.

    I did stop the pre rinse once her poo became solid and only did an extra rinse every once in a while. But in the BF poo stage I did the pre rinse, wash, extra rinse.

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  • fluffer.nutterfluffer.nutter
    take a look at the washers, too. some washers have a prewash setting or cycle. it adds a short wash to the beginning that drains and then the washer refills for the main wash cycle.
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