Washing (pee) CDs with LO's clothes?

emmavenus77 · September 2010

I'm new to this, would you do it? It's only urine, with a squart of poop of EFB baby. What is the harm of washing her clothes with the CDs? I ask because I've just started CD-ing and I'm using the GroVia CDs. I'm using them at night because she only pees so it will be a week before I have enough dirty CDs to run a load of laundry and I don't want it to smell.

MrsBeckO · September 2010

I've thrown the occasional pooped-on outfit in with the diapers (back when she had poop-splosions from time to time), but never the other way around. If you use the same detergent for both, then I suppose there'd be no harm.. I just never had tossed diapers in with clothes.

JulyFiveBride · September 2010

The diaper washing cycle is too annoying for me to do with regular clothes, plus we use a different detergent. The first rinse wouldn't really be necessary, but you'd have to do a second rinse of all the clothes at the end. My CD loads are also smaller than my clothes loads and I would worry that the extra would mean the diapers weren't getting rinsed as well. And if you are only doing pee diapers, wouldn't you have to do a separate load for poopy diapers? It just seems easier to me to have separate washes.

That being said, I don't see a problem with washing them together as far as it being gross or anything. Even babies who are in sposies end up with poo and pee in the wash when they have blowouts, right?

ETA: I would definitely NOT let them sit for a week, it will stink and probably mess up your diapers. I saw a picture once of a diaper that was left in the wetbag while the family went on vacation and it grew mushrooms. :shudder:

emmavenus77 · September 2010

JulyFiveBride:
ETA: I would definitely NOT let them sit for a week, it will stink and probably mess up your diapers. I saw a picture once of a diaper that was left in the wetbag while the family went on vacation and it grew mushrooms. :shudder:

Ew, it grew mushrooms? That's hilarious and gross at the same time.

GypsyEsq · September 2010

I'd just do a small load. Or do the first rinse and then I guess toss in some clothes. But really -- small load of CDs.

nekorayne · September 2010

I would wash a small load of just the CD's. It would be less for the Ewww factor and more that I don't think a big load would get as clean and you have to also be sure to get the suds outs. Also. like PP said, the wash routine is much longer the just clothes. I will sometimes throw in a peed on onsie or burp cloth in if need be. But I would deal with washing tiny loads of diapers twice a week versus leaving them for a week. We usally have to wash every other day.