to wash clothes with the nappies?

[MakeHayAndSneeze]

He thinks I am; I don't - the machine cleans them, surely?! I wash the DSs' clothes (and would be happy to do mine) with them if the nappy load is small enough, pre-wash the nappies and use an extra rinse cycle; he thinks this is gross.
What do you think?

if it's baby clothes YADNBU cause they're covered in sick and poo anyway and needed a "proper" poo wash anyway

Easy solution. Bung nappies in, cold rinse, chuck rest of clothes in with bold 2 in 1 on 60. This kills the bacteria but doesn't nuke the clothes, and includes a fabric conditioner than doesn't reduce absorbancy in towels or nappies. Chuck in a colour catcher as well and it means that you can wash anything together. It's the most ecological and efficient solution as you don't have to have lots of different types of loads, and can always do a full wash. (Only separate wash I do is woollen items on a low wool wash.)

I did, but only if clothes weren't too dirty as I'd only use half a dose of detergent for nappies.

YANBU
I always put my real nappies in with other stuff, and wash at 40 degrees.
Sometimes add a few drops of tea tree oil.
No need to wash at 60, read some research about it somewhere recently... 40 is fine

I do if the nappies aren't too manky. I use disposable liners so there's usually very little, if any, soiling on the actual nappies. If there's a particularly grotty nappy in the load I'll wash them with towels at 60, but otherwise I do them at 40 with clothes/towels/anything that needs washing. I always do a prewash first.

How I look at it is if any clothes got poo on them e.g. during potty training, nappy leaks, I wouldn't wash them at 60, so why is it any different with nappies. Stomach bugs very rare in our house.

Don't do it!

I've always washed nappies and clothes together. Maybe my husband and I go round smelling of wee, but no-one complains. Now I'm feeling like a complete slattern [embarrassed].

I do wash off any poo first, though. And they go in a separate nappy bag.

there is a need to wash at 60, 40 = very close to body temperature! and thrush etc is nasty stuff, also the bugs that grow in the amonia can BURN

and WRAP say that washing at a lower temp isn't even the best way to reduce environmental impact anyway (full loads, no tumble drying, and using them for more than one child makes much more of a difference)

An, they don't need washing at 60 if they are washed with antibac detergent, or if they are bamboo because the fabric itself is antibacterial:www.bamboodiapers.info/
I dry pail mine with tea tree oil in too.

Surely keeping your kids/family away from germs and bacteria makes them more likely to get sick, and less likely to build up a strong immune system Birdsgottafly.
I think the op is being economic, and if everything is coming out clean, I don't see the problem.

We do dedicated nappy washes, but when DS was younger and did explosive BF poo we used to put his pooey clothes in with his nappies. Otherwise I probably wouldn't but I that's just me. We almost always wash our nappies at 40C; occasionally we do the inners at 60C.

I rarely did, but mostly because I preferred to wash nappies at 60 degrees and got into a routine of 2 full loads of nappies a week.

I did sometimes sling a random nappy in with a clothes wash if it was convenient to do so. Everything was washed in either soap nuts or non-bio anyway, and like someone else said, you'd wash peed on clothes or sheets with other stuff (I would anyway!) so why not nappies? We always used liners anyway and flushed most poo down the toilet so it's not like there was great lumps of craps swishing around!

BAMBOO is antibacterial, bamboo FABRIC is not! it is processed into rayon to make it soft and retains no antibacterial properties once processed!

In other countries it is illegal to make antibacterial claims about bamboo FABRICS because it is not true

you have been "bamboozled by bamboo" - google it!

There is a difference between allowing your child to get dirty every now and again, and not properly killing the bacteria in feacal matter or raw meat LoveHandles. The former helps your immune system, the latter will make you sick no matter how often you are exposed.

An, the research I found was on fabric. But regardless, like I say, I use tea tree on them and wash in specialist antibacterial detergent for nappies. I am pretty confident they are clean.

Jury's out on temperature from what I can see....some nappy providers say wash at 60 under 3 months, some say at 60 under a year while immunity develops, some say only a 60 wash when baby is ill. Guess it might depend if you soak in milton first, or vinegar or tea tree oil

at borntofolks great lumps of craps

Bamboo nappies
I would at least put the machine on an empty hot wash now and then to make sure it gets a good clean and no nasties are lurking.

Too much doubt for me, I'd rather wash them at 60. I go by smell rather than if they look clean, mine are on our 3rd dc and we've had ammonia smells build up.

Scrape off/ rinse off poo then chuck everything in at 40. Occasional 60 nappy only wash when I remember- without softener to help absorbency.

The softener does make a difference but not enough for me o bother about it all the time.

I don't understand the " germs" paranoia. Don't your babies wee and poo over everything anyway? Their clothes, my clothes, their bed , our bed ( ick!).
( my disp nappies babies were as leaky as the booth bum one).

I didn't boil was my jeans after poosplosions and we are all still here!

( only bad rash bottom was the youngest before she went into cloth- its why we swapped).

it's not paranoia though is it? thrush is REALLY common in nappy age kids and very painful, and you wont get that out at 40!

Do your family get sick often op????????? If not, carry on.

YANBU. I have washed nappies with clothes for the past two years and it hasn't done either of us any harm.

Not a problem. I always do this

I do, after an initial cold rinse, but on a 60 wash. Not with clothes due to fabric softener, but with the bedding/towels/tea towels.

I would've thought any bacteria or oter nasties would be done for by the line drying anyway, wouldn't they?