Washing Cloth Diapers

After using cloth diapers for the last seven months I think I pretty much have the care of my diapers down to a science.  We have a bucket that we keep next to the changing table that we put dirty diapers in.  Every night I take the bucket to the bathroom and shake the solids into the toilet (unless they are super stinky then they get taken care of right away) and I rinse all the diapers that were used that day and put them in the diaper pail.  Our diaper pail is simply a medium size trash can (about 8 gallons) after three or four days I put the diaper pail full of rinsed diapers into the shower and add a 1 cup scoop of oxyclean and fill the diaper pail full of HOT water to soak overnight.  Then in the morning I dump out the water from the diaper pail and wring out any excess water so its not so heavy to carry (we have to go down two flights of stairs and drive to my inlaws to do laundry.)  Once I dump the diapers into the washer I add two scoops (I pirated this one out of a small oxyclean container) of Lulu's in the Fluff Glamour Wash (http://lulusinthefluff.com/) also available at http://www.fluffenvy.com/. I have the washer set on 30 min soak with Hot Wash and Cold Rinse and always do a second rinse.  I also have the water set on the super load size. 

I have also discovered that there is a prepping that should be done on prefolds and on any organic insert.  I didn't know this when I started and the only prepping that my prefolds got was a wash in diaper soap.  Now I know that any prefold and organic insert needs to be washed five or six times before use to make sure you get the natural oils off of them.  One other thing that I have found is that you have to be careful with the diaper rash ointments that you use with cloth diapers.  Some can leave residue on the diapers that stop absorbancy.  Our new found diaper cream is called CJ's Butter, I love the Cucumber Melon and the Cherry Almond scents.

Well that is my explaination of how I wash my diapers...hope you enjoyed it!

Cloth Addiction Update

Ok I have now received two diapers from Diaper of the Month Club from http://www.fluffenvy.com  However, I can only tell you what the first one was...Another BlueBerry Minky...this one is the cool Saphire Blue color.  The second one I got is really cool and I LOVE using it and I am contemplating buying more of them.  But it would be really unfair to disclose what it is until every one in the club gets theirs.  I am lucky enough to be local to Fluff Envy's location and I get to pick mine up on the first of the month.  Almost every one else has to wait for theirs to come in the mail. As soon as every one gets their diaper I will write my review of it on here.

Here is the updated list of my diaper stash

1 Blue Camo Blueberry Minky pocket diaper (snaps with bamboo insert)
1 Saphire Blueberry Minky pocket diaper (snaps with bamboo insert)
1 Chocolate KnickerNappie pocket Diaper (snaps)
1 Red KnickerNappie pocket Diaper (snaps)

1 Twilight Katydid pocket diaper

2 Groovy Print WeeHuggers (hook/loop) cover
1 Round-About print weehuggers (hook/loop) cover
2 Pistacio weehuggers ( one hook/loop & one snaps) cover
2 Chocolate sky weehuggers ( one hook/loop & one snaps) cover

1 Twilight Flip One-Size Diaper conver (snaps)
1 Moonbeam Flip One-size diaper cover (snaps)

1 Mango Thirsties Duo Wrap (hook and loop)
1 Ocean Blue Thirsties Duo Wrap (hook and loop)

1 Meadow Thirsties Duo Wrap (hook and loop)


1 Scrappy cover from Cheeky Diapers (both snaps and hook and loop)

1 Red, black and white Ooga Booga Print Happy Heiny pocket diaper (hook and loop)
1 Ocean Tye Dye Happy Heiny Pocket Diaper (Hook and Loop)
(all covers and wraps are used with prefolds)

At this point I feel driven to purchase every cute print of every diaper that I know I like.  My current favorites are the Happy Heiny diapers that I have purchased in the last month and the new one that I can't talk about yet.  They keep coming out with adorable prints and I keep wanting to buy these adorable prints even when the baby really doesn't need any more diapers.  Joining the Diaper of the Month Club was theoretically supposed to quell my desire to spontaneously buy diapers but I think it is just making it worse.  Honestly I am leaning more toward using exclusively pocket diapers and if I were to do that we would need to get more for sure.  I love the convience of just fastening the diaper on the baby and not have to worry about getting the prefold in the right spot and folding it over in the right way or making sure all the corners are tucked in so the pee doesn't wick out onto his clothes.