That you just wash the baby clothes

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I'm in a fb group about babies of an age similar to mine and there are a lot of mums in the US.

A post popped up about nappy leaks/poo explosion/poonamis and the US mums are saying they throw out entire outfits weekly?!?

Now, this is my second child so I'm no stranger to a horrific code brown, but am I being silly I find this incredibly wasteful?

Sure it's hideous, but don't you just crack on with it?

When I said I just scrap/recoil/soak where necessary/loadsa stain remover/wash/job done I was basically a minority.

I know some blow outs are bad but aibu thinking it's just plain frivolous?

One of the most vivid memories I have from my childhood is the view out the back bedroom window of our house to the back gardens of neighbours' houses stretching into the distance, and beyond them the future houses of more neighbours, under construction. Each garden had a long washing line and each family seemed to do a big wash one day a week. Thanks to the baby boom of the mid 60s in Ireland, the lines featured dozens of nappies. Weirdly, each family seemed to have its own signature state of the nappies. Some were white as snow and some were grey or splotchy. Same went for sheets. I am not so sure that line drying makes much difference therefore. Or maybe lack of sunshine was affecting the nappies.

Wrt American laundry quirks - I have only ever had older top loader machines, both individual and communal (in apartment building basements). A hot wash is pretty hot if the water heaters are set to the max temp, and if Tide detergent can't get out a stain you might as well throw your hat at it. Clorox 2 will also tackle a lot of grime, and Oxy powder and sprays ditto. Plus wonderful Borax.

But if you have missed a bloodstained pair of undies and it goes into the hot and quick dryer (dryer cycles take under an hour for a full load ime) you will most likely never get the stain out without degrading the fabric to the point where the effort is actually counter productive.

I usually wouldn’t throw it away.

But I have thrown a whole outfit away when this happened on a visit with friends. Pretty much everything was covered in poo. DD1’s clothes luckily weren’t especially pretty or handmade and I did not want to carry around a ball of poo soaked / coated clothes all day...

You can let the blood dry, and it still comes out with two minutes, warm water, a nail brush and a decent stain removing soap

Yes. But cold water works better ime. :)

I'm from the U.S. and haven't known of any friends or anyone from my very large family that regularly threw out baby clothes just because of a mess in/on them.

I don't know why anyone wouldn't even make an attempt to remove the stains from the baby's clothes. Just wasteful not to.

Reusable nappies. I do have a nappy wash sanitizer. But then a lot of people use similar for all sheets and towels etc. Sometimes stains are persistent. Sunlight is great for errr. "Organic" stains.