To as why the heck so many baby clothes are white

[PaulinePetrovaPosey]

When baby poo so dramatically isn't.

All future baby clothes purchased in this household will be bright yellow to save any need for stain remover.

Can you tell I've had a fun morning?

The answer to your question is bleach.

If they are 100% cotton, then you can wash them all at 90 degrees, and that keeps them white. All the towels, bedding, muslins, vests, babygros etc were white for me, then one wash a week did them all.

But also lots of sympathy and a recommendation for just putting the baby in stained (but clean) clothes - they won’t care.

White clothes stained with baby poo can be bleached. Anything else can’t be.

Yes white is bizarrely the easiest to clean because of bleach! Also if you just leave them out in the sun while wet the poo marks will fade dramatically.

Sick is white too.

Dammit, bleach, obviously.

Much coffee first, though.

It comes from the days when people would boil wash and bleach everything, but nowadays people may not want to do that for environment reasons.

White can also be hung in the sun which bleachers most baby poo stains out easily - not in February though!

I found baby poo just washed out; I never boiled, bleached or washed above 60. Drying outside on the line definitely helps if you are able to do that.

OP Napisan is your friend - not bleach. Wonderful stuff

Get them outside even in February. The sun does magnificent things.

I'm of the 'baby doesn't care if its stained' school anyway!

RhymingRabbit3 Heads up it’s March!

Bleach and sunlight are your friends

I love a soft white babygrow .....until weaning onto solids begins.
Then white is totally off the table in my house until the child is around 10 I breed messy eaters it would appear

I just rinse them and then once a week soak them in a bucket with a scoop of that Oxy again remover that comes in a pink tub - it's bleach free and somehow uses oxygen to remove the stains? No idea how it works or if it's more environmentally friendly but it works! (Then they get washed at 40 once the stains have soaked out.)

People apparently love white babygrows. I hate all white clothes. I think they look weird.

Same goes for adult clothes, walls, bedding and crockery! Couldn't contemplate have any of those things white myself.

I’m determined it’s a con to get us to buy a ton of naice white bits all the time.. the first few sizes it’s yellow shit explosions all over them.. then it’s orange fucking baby food. Why does everything need a tomato/carrot base...

Bleach works but it’s the remembering to bleach things while you’ve had quarter of an hour sleep in 6months.. and not bleaching your entire self

No need to bleach.

Just hang them outside. Sun will bleach the stains out.... even in a cloudy day 👍

I had to bleach - even summer sunshine didn’t remove the yellow marks, I tried multiple times.

Ugh, my DCs primary school insist on white polo shirts.

You'd think my 7yo would be able to keep it clean(ish) by now. It comes back covered in marker, dinner, mud, grass stain - the lot. Same for 3yo but worse!

I soak them in cold water, washing up liquid, whitener & stain remover over night. Then run them on a hot wash with the whitener again, and it's working well so far. Still drives me mad though as it's yet another job!

i thought it was because you didnt know the gender

white baby gros are lovely though.

Oh SUNCREAM is the worst! the yellow marks just don't come out no matter what. Would love to know the answer to that.

I always found rubbing in a bit of washing up liquid before the stain sets in helped break down the fats in the poo and got the stain out

They look so cute on newborns and handy when you don't know the sex in advance

Baby poo comes out with napisan and sunlight!

Suncream on the other hand... Not so.

Great username OP, I absolutely adored that book as a young teen / dancer in my dreams 😄