To think surely other people must also think it’s gross to…

Can someone let me know how they wash the baby's reusable wipes. Do they go into a bucket of water then into the washing machine
If there is lots of poo on them do you try and get that off first somehow or just hope the bucket of water does the trick
Also how do you clean the bucket? Sorry if I sound clueless! I am!

Why is it assumed it's the woman doing the washing?

We use reusable wipes. And nappies. My husband usually puts them on to wash and hangs them out.
'Normal' wipes are shit. Bad for the environment and bad at cleaning babies bums! I've yet to meet someone who's used reusable wipes and gone back to plastic ones. They are much much better.

Yes you can!

Reusable nappies, wipes, makeup remover cloths and sanitary towels. We still use flannels in the shower too.

In our case DH stuck the wash on at 5 a.m. on his way to work and I'd stick it on the line/drier depending on weather when I'd had breakfast.

Oh dear lord, I don't think I can face that!

I refer you to the long,long, thread on washing tea towels with underwear!

No I don't think it's gross at all. I used cloth nappies and wipes for both my children. It was an absolute breeze and all very hygienic.

The bamboo ones we have for hands and faces are amazing. So soft and lovely, have stood the test of time. My eldest is now 6 and uses them occasionally!

Sadly team reusable is the minority and attitudes should be changing really. If it was normalised in society people wouldn't be so weird about it.

It really didn’t feel like extra work. Use wipes, put in washing machine with other washing, take them out, put in box ready for the next use. Didn’t even dry them etc.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. Do you throw away baby clothes if they have a poonami? Or if a potty training toddler has a poo accident? We have used reusable wipes with all of our DC, and cloth nappies. They go in the washing machine on a normal 40 degree wash and come out smelling clean and fresh.

If anything is disgusting it's disposable nappies and wipes. They are terrible for the environment, those nappies will still be sitting in landfill long after the baby has grown up and died of old age.

I used them for my kids when they were babies. And cloth nappies, nothing wrong with using them.

I'm just wondering how much stuff these people throw away? Everything that gets a bodily fluid on it?

Actually, you can buy washable toilet wipes for adults. I used washable wipes for my kids when they were babies. Just for wee not poo. Wasn’t gross I promise you.

Er, flannels, dusters, old towel for car windscreen, teatowels, hand towels, those microfiber cloths for wiping down kitchen and everywhere else.

All washable and reusable in my house.

Indeed. I'm male and never found a bucketful of soaking nappies too daunting. I might have found it harder before washing machines were invented I suppose.

DS had food allergies. Every poo was a neck to knee poonami.
It was the early days of modern style cloth nappies and Cheeky Wipes so I started off with disposables as it was the default thing.
At home, I'd end up showering him down. Nursery asked me to take a baby bath in. When it happened when we were out and about, it used to take half a pack of wipes to get past the smearing stage and actually clean him.
When I started trying reusables, firstly, the nappies were much better at containing the explosion, then a mere 4 cloth wipes could clean up. Far far less time and effort.
There was no way I was binning every single outfit he ever shat in so the washing machine was used for dealing with poo anyway.

When I had two in nappies, I had plenty of bin capacity left at the end of each fortnight.

I use reusable sanitary products since then and they're also far easier and more comfortable than disposables. No more thrush from getting dried out. No more having to check for bins with capacity. When I'm out, empty cup into toilet, wipe with toilet paper, reuse, wash later at a convenient time. For pads, put into a wet bag to wash at a convenient time. The capacity is greater than plasticy disposables and there's no rubbing or reapplying sticky bits. I haven't used disposables for a decade and do not miss them one jot.

Disposable products are a blip in human history but will loiter in landfill for centuries. Modern reusables are well designed and easier to use than their traditional counterparts.

Overzealous fussing about hygiene is bad for the environment (waste, use of resources to manufacture) and has no health benefits anyway.

Isn't a reusable wipe just a thin flannel?

Used plenty of decades-old terry nappies cut into four for that.

There is residual water in your washing machine which has to be emptied via the filter at the bottom now and again - that water probably has all sorts in it.

I agree. If they are re-usable, that means they are washable so no problem.

I use reusable make up remover pads and wouldnt go back to chlorine bleached,plastic wrapped cotton wool if you paid me.

It’s one thing not to use them, but to openly judge and sneer at those that do is just rude and small minded.

Napisan

Soak them till you wash them

Job done

God.

We managed perfectly fine back in the day with terry nappies and reusable liners

And cotton wool and water.

My nappies were always spotlessly clean after washing

They sound like a good idea if someone is fine with cleaning them. Surely if you've a baby then there's shite and vom all over the place anyway so no point being squeamish. You don't have to use them.

@isthismylifenow - it's a miracle! ✨

This could possibly put some folk on here into a state of shock....

I have much younger siblings who are in cloth nappies when I was a teen. We only had a cold fill washing machine. And yet there was still a line of sparkling white nappies drying in the sun.

Nappies AND bum flannels washed in COLD water. And yes, we are all alive and well.