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 Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:56 pm
As some of you know, I have a baby now heart Which brings up a whole new category of potentially green decisions, the current being cloth diapering. So now I have questions. 3nodding
Something I didn't think about until the first time I washed them, is how do I keep them from staining, or how do I get the stains out? My mother (who has, frustratingly, been here for the last two weeks) bleached them, but I'm not happy about putting bleach against Lily's bottom, plus I think bleach is hard on the fabric. I read on a cloth diapering blog that laying them in the sun takes out the stains, but I've yet to try this because it's been rainy.
So how do you get stains out of whites without bleach?
Also, I'm reluctant to use conventional baby wipes both because of the waste factor and the ingredients like alcohol and sulfates that're in them. In the hospital, the nurses used a kind of softer paper towel with plain water, but my fiance insists that gives her diaper rash.
What would you suggest to use instead of baby wipes? I've thought about cutting up old t-shirts for rags to wipe with, which would be softer and better than paper towels, but should I use plain water or what to clean her with?
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:59 am
Bleach is a good thing, it kills bacteria. Just double rinse the diapers and don't use fabric softener, which causes the fabric to repel liquid. The tumbling action of the dryer helps soften the diapers, and you can also put a couple rubber balls in the dryer with the diapers to "beat them up" a little and help soften them.
Just wash her bottom with any mild soap or plain water. Desitin is your best friend (or hers) where diaper rash is concerned. Be sure her bottom is dry, then apply a good layer at diaper changes. It protects and heals, and not just her bottom----try it on your feet, or your hands if they're in the water a lot.
Diaper rash is caused by the ammonia in urine, and by being wet in general----it's really more like a chemical burn than anything else. The Desitin coats the skin and keeps it dry.
As for drying diapers in the sun----they'd have to be out there a long time to be white again!
Don't feel bad about using disposable diapers. They generally keep skin dryer than everything you can do with cloth diapers. It's Lily's bottom, after all. Babies with diaper rash are miserable, just as we would be. I've used both cloth and disposable diapers, and babies are different----some can handle the cloth diapers just fine, and some really need the drier disposables.
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:23 am
Thanks ^^ I was mainly mad at my mom because she spot-treated the diapers using pure, undiluted bleach, straight onto the cloth.
Desitin has definitely been my friend; so far she hasn't had diaper rash, despite many very, very wet diapers. I haven't been using it every time, just when she starts getting a little red around the tush. Hmm.. That would probably be a good idea for my fiance's feet, they've been wet almost constantly lately at work because he works in a mine and it's been raining and snowing a lot.
We've been using disposables when we go out usually, or when all the cloth ones are dirty, and she doesn't seem to really have a preference. She has more blow-outs with the disposables, though stressed The cloth ones have been great, but we sprang for the expensive all-in-ones that're practically just like disposables on the changing part, lol.
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:15 pm
i have this oroganic cleaner called awesome. i think it can do it.
its at our local flea market but i think it can be ordered online...let me go look
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 2:12 pm
There will be less chance of diaper rash and fewer blowouts as she grows. Babies seem to come into the world throwing everything at you at once! It will get better.
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:01 pm
we use g-diapers with the compostable inserts, that way they get put in the compost pile and eventually make their way into the garden!
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:58 pm
I'm glad you brought up the gDiapers, StregaMama, because I'd forgotten all about them. I'm gonna get the ok to order some soon, so we'll have a nice earth-friendly option to use when go out or leave her with her grandparents heart
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:18 pm
Cloth diapers? Damn girl, you're committed to the cause xd
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