to throw baby's clothes away if soiled?

[inftup]

Putting in the washing machine seems gross!! DH says most people wash anything a baby has used but I can’t think this would come out clean?! We have an eco friendly machine that doesn’t go higher than 60 degrees and below 90 just makes me even more nervous about it.

You dont give a shit about waste or the environment?
You do know that that your lack of concern will have a direct impact on your children when they are older and their children right?

How do you think people coped before the invention of disposable nappies? Even some still use cloth nappies! YA so BU!!!

Heya! Don’tfeel embarrassed, you sounds anxious. I was also v anxious when my lo was younger, but I just used napisan for every wash, it kills every thing even at 30 degrees, and I use it on reusable nappies. Good luck :)

Presumably you don't regularly shit/throw up on your clothes though? Honestly, it will get very expensive and wasteful if you do this!

We used cloth nappies. You’d be horrified to see what we used to put in the washing machine.

Sorry I meant poo. Sick or wee etc I am fine washing.

Due to the nature of the English language, stating she means poo and then qualifying that with what she is fine washing (a list which doesn’t include any instances of poo) indicates she means every time.

I give no fucks about how permanently stained a thing is after a soiling. It all gets washed and it all gets worn again. I buy it all in bulk on marketplace so some of it comes a little stained anyway. When I’m done, I give them away in bulk to a lady I met on Freecycle. She also doesn’t give a shit about stains. They’re babies. Who cares?

I did once chuck away a pair of leggings that were filled with shit. I was changing her nappy right before security at the airport and I had better things to worry about than rescuing a pair of £2 trousers so that I could cart them off to the Canary Islands and rinse the shit off them by hand. I had my eyes on a G&T in Departures!

If it only happens occasionally (one-off accident, not a chronic condition) then yes, I chuck them in the bin even if they are new.

Did your babies stain their clothes every time they did a poo?

The sun is like magic when it comes to getting rid of poo stains - just hang them out to dry outside.

Just shake the clothes so any bits of poo come off and then put in machine. We had to do it when working in a care home - it happened all the time because people were incontinent, smeared etc. It won't hurt you or your baby. People who don't have much money don't have the option of throwing clothe away. It's fine.

Washing detergent and heat will kill bacteria. Stains are caused by the pigments in the poo, not the bacteria!

Sometimes they did and sometimes they didn’t. Like most babies. And it wasn’t ‘poonami’ dependent.

And she’s clearly not just talking about stained clothing, if she’s going ‘sick and wee I’m fine washing’. She isn’t fine washing all poo covered clothing because she’s worried it’ll stain. She’s communicated this clearly and most people on the thread understood her.

If that’s not what she meant, she’s fully capable of correcting us should she wish to do so. You’re being weirdly dogged about this.

What?!

I've had two kids and, yes, I've thrown the odd thing away when it was totally shit covered and I just couldn't be arsed to deal with it.

But routinely I would wash things, regardless, as it's incredibly wasteful to regularly chuck perfectly good clothes away. Especially in the new born and early baby days when there's regular epic shit explosions.

If the stains bothers you then hang stuff the sun for a bit and they will fade.

I never really wash anything above 40oC and my kids have come to no harm!

Presumably you’re familiar with soaking, Vanish and Milton OP?

You’ve picked a very strange hill to die on. Are you okay? Or are you feeling judged as a fellow chucker of perfectly usable clothing? 🤔

Wash on a higher temperature with biological washing powder and Vanish.
I used cloth nappies for four children and they were always snowy white.

Shake!?

Have you ever seen baby poo?!? 😂

I just chuck them when they have a serious amount of poo on them. I cba with the faff and don’t like seeing the stains

DS had food allergies. He blasted through every disposable nappy from neck to knee until he was ready to toilet train at 3. Binning all his clothes would have been ridiculously wasteful. He had a baby bath at nursery because it took half a pack of wet wipes to clean him up. Washable wipes were a game changer, and washable nappies that sealed his output in much better. Lumpy stuff down the toilet and soaking/ cold rinses to deal with the rest of it.

Cold rinses, napisan and lots of sunlight and fresh air on the washing line will redeem just about any baby/ toddler related bio hazard. Washable wet bags were also great for containing soiled items until they could be dealt with.

I had a few vests that were still coming out stained, I soaked them overnight in the sink with oxy stain remover then put through the machine in the morning and in most cases the stains were gone.

and wouldn’t keep my own clothes in that situation so I wonder what others do.

@inftup most people rinse them, soak in Napisan then wash them in the washing machine. Honestly, it does work. It would be expensive to keep buying new clothes after a poo explosion, not to mention bad for the environment.

Assuming you aren't joking. You do realise that your offspring need a habitable place to live in 50, 60, 70 years.

Wake up

No more dogged than you. You said "You genuinely believe people throw out baby clothes every time a baby poos?"

Which is a dramatic overstatement and typical of mumsnet. I get bored of these kinds if unhelpful antagonistic replies, especially when they put words in the OPs mouth. Also I'm killing time before work.

The irony of having an “eco friendly” washing machine and proposing to throw all the dirty clothes away 😂