So as broke as we are we have gone back to cloth diapering our little one's. I am a bit overwhelmed but I am ok with it. The whole reason we stopped in the first place was because of the ammonia rashes that just would not go away and the barn yard stink. I love cloth, I love everything about it, it just does not love my baby's bottoms.
I have now pulled everything out of the closet and stripped everything, I made a ghetto clothes line in the back yard (pictured above) and now I am trying to sun any nasty out of them. I think I am going to try a wet pail in the kids room for after I spray them down in the bathroom and I am going to try a new wash routine.
Normally I do a HOT wash with no soap, a HOT wash with soap and two cold water washes for the rinse. I was also using Liquid Tide and white vinegar. I am now going to try using Purex for soap, a cold wash with no soap, a HOT wash with soap and one cold wash. I don't know if it will work but I can try. I really want this to work because we just can't afford diapers anymore and I really want to start using my cloth again.
So wish us luck in our cloth diapering journey and hopefully it will all work out, if not I am sure you all will hear more about it as time goes on. I may even have questions for you cloth diapering mama's out there.
Good Luck Mama! Don't give up :)
ReplyDeleteMy little one isn't here yet - giving me the next few months to figure out this wash cycle thing. I still haven't grasped the pattern.
The wash cycle can be a bit hard to get down for what works best for your little one but once you get it your good. Our issue is we have yet to find that "right" wash cycle LOL I am still trying though.
ReplyDeleteThere are also a ton of soaps that you can try that are natural. We just don't have the money for them so we stick to what we can get at the grocery store.