Diaper Day
- EZ
- Aug 18, 2016
- 2 min read
I'm not sure if you know this but washing diapers isn't as disgusting as it used to be. I'm on my third cloth diapered kiddo and it's gotten easier with every one of them. For my darling Alice we used prefolds and rubber/plastic covers. These are the diapers people frequently buy for burp/spit cloths, a little thicker in the middle and rectangular. With a little experience and baby origami they worked well enough. And they're cheap!
For Corbin we invested in some Kawaii pocket diapers and inserts. And oh my! These are shaped just like disposables and they snap. No origami! No pins! No issues! Well, carrying a wet-bag isn't always fun and sometimes diapers are just icky but nothing too bad. Not only that but for under $200 we diapered Henry right up until he went into potty-training mode and we used pull-ups for awhile. He's 5 now so that's in the past for him!
As for Aleksander...he inherited Corbin's diapers and we added half a dozen new ones as well. So that $200 keeps on giving. Admittedly, I have to wash diapers once or twice a week. We have 35 or so diaper covers and 70 + inserts so they last awhile even when he's having what my husband refers to as a "watering can" sort of day.
Everybody always wants to know about, well, how to deal with poop. It's pretty much a non-issue once you get used to diapers though. When the poop is still all soft and runny you just dump the diaper in the diaper pail (I use a lidded kitchen trash can) and wash then with all the others. When it starts to get solid, as they start to eat solids, just roll what you can into the toilet and wash the residue.
My washing routine is pretty simple. I separate covers and inserts first of all. Covers then get a prewash, a full cycle with detergent in hot, a full wash with tea tree oil (anti-bacterial and gets rid of all smells) in warm, and a final rinse cycle in cold. Then I dry them on warm. Inserts get a prewash, a full cycle with detergent in hot, a full wash with tea tree oil in hot, (every two or three washes, I'll use a little bleach instead of tea tree) and then a rinse in cold. These get dried on high.
And that's it! We do use disposables when traveling and on days when we're going to be out of the house all day so that I don't end up with a purse or van full of dirty diapers. But even adding those in, I think our cloth diapers have more than paid off.
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