Cloth diaper check in!

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How goes it ladies?

-We going on vacay without LO next week & my mom is going to use disposables during the day but CD at night
-I'm getting some flack from mom & daycare about her CD's interfering with her rolling and sitting up better now...urgh!

I'm finally selling a few of mine.  I've got some SBish & a BG Elemental Marie if anybody is interested.

[mimsy]

Post the Marie on the CD b/s/t thread. It'll go fast.

Cloth is not interfering with her rolling or sitting. That's BS and I would be outraged.

[Deleted]

lol...yea. i roll my eyes & ignore them. She'll roll soon enough.

I posted it on the Swap 2/2 thread. I sold 2 Grovia AIO's. Is there a different BST Thread?

[briarrose]

LO sits for like 20 min in cloth. BS.
We are struggling with a patch of dry skin above LO's penis that wont go away. He was in sposies and Desitin all ay yesterday and nothing. I suppose I should run to the store for some cloth safe cream but I HATE going to the store just for one thing. Why wont this rash go away?!

[mimsy]

Burt's bees is cloth safe and you can get it at the grocery store. Or coconut oil.

[mimsy]

Feb 6, 2015 12:40:47 GMT -5 @zoegirltx said:

lol...yea. i roll my eyes & ignore them. She'll roll soon enough.

I posted it on the Swap 2/2 thread. I sold 2 Grovia AIO's. Is there a different BST Thread?

That's it!

[lotsacake]

My kid sits, rolls, and pulls his feet to his mouth in CDs. I call BS.

We've just moved out of the water soluable poops... I'm still trying to get my husband on board with spraying/plopping. He does the diaper laundry normally, but is pushing back on this one. =(

[minervamae]

Mind if I join? We did almost exclusive cloth with DD1, about half with DD2 and I'm just hitting my stride with DD3.

I need a good stripping routine. I didn't do it much with DD1 because we used bamboo and never dried them in the drier, so they didn't ever stink, etc. Since we've been drying them they are getting some build up, and the cotton we've added in stinks a lot. I've done bleach and dawn dish soap. Is there something better? In case it matters, we use Charlie's Soap.

[briarrose]

Ugh, went to Wal-Mart and didn't even think of coconut oil. I will have to get some at Aldi on Monday. Stupid Walmart, all they had were Desitin and A+D.

[mimsy]

Dawn is terrible. It's only good for spot removing.

I'd say a hot water strip. I've not heard people have a lot of luck with Charlie's. If I recall, it is not a soap and doesn't always clean as efficiently.

[minervamae]

Feb 6, 2015 15:55:18 GMT -5 mimsy said:

Dawn is terrible. It's only good for spot removing.

I'd say a hot water strip. I've not heard people have a lot of luck with Charlie's. If I recall, it is not a soap and doesn't always clean as efficiently.

How's a hot water strip different than the normal hot water wash? Sorry if it sounds dumb. I really haven't had time to do more research in years.

[minervamae]

Feb 6, 2015 16:02:08 GMT -5 trichie5 said:

If you have detergent build up, then got water strips (waking in the hottest water you have without detergent, until there are no bubbles) will help. But if you have hard water, or minerals, you might need an rlr strip. I just had to do this. Luckily, my diapers seem to be fixed.


Dawn is only good for getting non CD safe creams out, and then only in small amounts for spot treating.

You make a good point.  The water softener went on the fritz for a while. What's a rlr strip?

[bkroxfan003]

Total BS for sure on CD interfering with sitting and rolling and stuff. Tessa can now roll back and forth and can sit up for at least 30 seconds before falling over to the side and she just turned 5 months. Plus, babies have been wearing cloth diapers waaaayyy before they started making disposables.

[annapunkalunka]

Feb 6, 2015 16:53:22 GMT -5 @slmck said:

I believe you can also make a homemade rlr strip with borax, calgon and washing soda if you can't find rlr. Mix all together in tub (equal parts, I think 1/3 cup each?) in hot water and let sit until water cools. I've been told adding the detergent you use to your strip solution will help prevent leaks after stripping. I did this to get rid of mineral build up because I was using a poor detergent (plant based so it turned out I wasn't using enough) in hard water. I now wash with gain and borax for my hard water and my diapers come out spotless and smell nice. Also avoid extra rinses if you have hard water

This. Stripping our like this and revamping our wash routine made all the difference! We wash with powdered tide and all is well!!

[harleyquinn]

Itty bit is in cloth full time now. She moved to size 3 diapers and started peeing out of them (we had a ton of disposables).

As a side note...I'm not looking forward to her first poop now. She's started solids so idk how I'm gunna do the whole...wash or whatever before tossing in the pail...

[hham10]

Finally back on cloth after a month or so off from constant yeast rashes but think we have cleaned out diapers good. So happy to be back in them but do miss the slim fit of disposables. We do use disposables at night but it's only one because he sleeps for 12 hrs it is just better. Need to stock up on more AIOs.

[bkroxfan003]

Feb 9, 2015 18:53:49 GMT -5 hham10 said:

Finally back on cloth after a month or so off from constant yeast rashes but think we have cleaned out diapers good. So happy to be back in them but do miss the slim fit of disposables. We do use disposables at night but it's only one because he sleeps for 12 hrs it is just better. Need to stock up on more AIOs.

Best Bottoms are pretty trim if that's what you're looking for.

[gahorseygal]

I started sewing some hybrid fitteds! Yay! I need more fabric as I've just played around with what I have on hand at the moment. I'm dying for a serger now.

I can not find a detergent that works for us. LO is very sensitive so I use Tide Free and Clear on her clothes but it was not getting her diapers clean enough. I don't like the smell of regular tide it just never smelled clean. I'm currently trying Arm and Hammer and they smell very fresh and clean but I have only used it on laundry twice now and I'm making sure she doesn't have a reaction. Anyone have any advice?? I have hard water and use Calgon. She currently has a rash but I don't think it's from the detergent and it's almost gone.