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Washing new diapers - color bleeding??
steenbean18
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I'm just getting around to washing my stash so that I can get it put away for baby. I have a mix of all different colors of diapers. The ones that are bright colors recommend washing separately 6 times to avoid color bleeding. How well do I need to separate them?? Does each color need to be washed separately? Or can blues go with greens, reds with oranges, etc? I don't want to ruin my new dipes! TIA!
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Re: Washing new diapers - color bleeding??
BFP #1 9/7/10, EDD 5/14/11, Violet born 5/27/11.
BFP #2 4/9/12, EDD 12/16/12, M/C Rory 4/24/12.
BFP #3 10/6/12, EDD 6/16/12., Matilda born 6/17/13.
I had bleeding once, with an Oh Katy diaper. It's red and a few little streaks of red ended up on both of the microfiber inserts. It wasn't too bad and I was able to get the stains 95% out by sunning them.
I only have a light green BG and haven't had any problems with it bleeding.
BFP #2: 8.31.16 Dx w/ GD @ 28w DD Born @ 36w: 4.21.17
I washed my sassy and mirror flips with all the rest of my diapers that I just prepped a couple of weeks ago. I put in a few shout color catchers with the load, so that might of helped though they didn't really have much color on them when I took them out.
I did wash my new orange and pomegranate tots bots separately because I had read that the pomegranate one had bled for people. The color catcher was definitely reddish when I finished the load. I have also read about the zinnia bleeding, so I would probably wash that one separately and get some shout color catchers to throw in with the other ones. I also used some of these when I washed my baby clothes because I was worried about colors running, and didn't have any problems.