to throw baby's clothes away if soiled?

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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.

Absolutely ridiculous. What a waste of money and material.

Baby poo is water soluble pre-weaning. It’s really very easy to wash in a machine. If you’re worried use bio detergent.

FFS, they’re all out today. First someone starts a gleeful thread about buying new crockery every week and chucking it in the bin after dinner bc she literally CBA to rinse it, then people chime in with how they always buy new socks as it’s too much of a ball ache to wash and pair up used ones, so they just chuck them away. And now this.

With the planet dying on its arse and a lot of families living hand to mouth, even in this country, I can’t believe how fucking loathsomely wasteful, privileged and tone deaf some people are.

Sorry if you’re an anxious new mum and all that, OP, but yes, people are questioning if this is real bc it sounds completely ridiculous. If you really can’t bear to wash and reuse, then wash and give it to a charity shop for their rag bin - they get paid by the kilo for bags of unusable clothing, so at least that way it’ll be partially recycled.

Shove them in with vanish and get on with it, if you binned everything soiled you'd spend a fortune!

My parents were the same. Some of our old terry nappies were cut up and used as cleaning cloths around the house.

My Dad also kept a couple that he used for washing the car. Especially the windscreen.

It all worked pretty well.

Line drying in the sun removes stains as does a Vanish Soap BAR (not the other stuff. They don't work anywhere near as well)
And a hotter wash seals a stain in, not removes them. It's a common misconception.

Was napisan not developed specifically for this purpose!

Use a stain remover powder vanish and fairy have good ones. I would prewash the soiled clothes and then put them on a properwash after.

Periodically, run your machine on a cleaning cycle. I do mine once a month. Also make sure you clean your filters regularly.

I agree, I did the same. DD had very sensitive skin and eczema so I couldn’t use Vanish by the way , it’s too irritating and needed extra rinses which was not good for environment either so I just binned them .
save what you can save and bin what you can’t.

It would be incredibly wasteful to do this. Stain removal and bio detergent should do the job.

I am a bit anxious about cleanliness though.

I think we can see that. Babies shit a lot, on everything, without warning.

It’s far less environmentally friendly to bin everything that gets poo on, and buy new. You must see that.

Detergent and not-that-hot water will kill any bacteria. Stains may remain but you can soak with a stain remover if that worries you. Stains aren’t ‘dangerous’ though. None of it is, really.

Just wash them as normal, and use them as normal. It’s usually the vests that bear the brunt and you can cover those up with other things if you’re worried how it looks.

However, if it’s head to toe caked in shit, then probably just Chuck it. But don’t make it your habit to bin everything that’s even slightly ‘soiled’.

Milk poos are water soluble. It just washes away. I would get through an outfit a day if I did this. Look into the environmental impact of cotton growth before you throw away.

Dettol laundry cleanser and Pink stuff stain remover, quick wash on their own then put in a normal wash with other stuff.
BTW Pink stuff stain remover is the business, it's removed all of babys apocalyptic arsehole events.

Rinse thoroughly. Soak in a solution of Milton and then wash.

If possible hang outside in sunshine to dry.

Will be fine

(And I used to have cloth nappies and breast-fed babies who could fill a babygro with poo)

True, I put Milton in my post but Napisan probably better

Personally, I'd also probably move house.

More seriously OP, it'll be fine.

I washed all of mine which had poonami stains on them, which happened every other day. I would have never been able to replace them I couldn’t afford it! I think there was one I threw out because I couldn’t get that yellow tinge out.

More money than sense.

@pizzaHeart you can’t really say drain removers aren’t good for the environment but then bin perfectly good clothes!

To be fair, whether or not a hot wash will remove a stain/cook it in depends on the stain.

It's true for blood stains and some other kinds of protein (egg and maybe sperm? For some reason I have a little Dr. Beckmann's stain remover bottle that claims to remove all these three) but for grease based stains it usually helps as it helps to dissolve the grease. And for fabrics in general it can help as it opens up the fibres more to help particles come away from them. Smells in particular come out this way I find.

And the hanging outside trick works in any weather, even moonlight will do it.

no, of course not, I said that washing with Vanish required 2 extra rinses on top in my case due to DD’s skin sensitivity so I ended up using more water and electricity and THAT was not good for environment. My point is that every decision has some effect on the environment some more some less but none zero.

I think my mum did similar. I used reusable Totsbots for my second and sold them on.

I just can't believe we live in such a disposable society where dirty clothes are thrown away. And people tell use we are in the middle of a COL crisis.

I’m currently using prefolds that first saw action with DS as floor cloths and when there’s a big flood (dishwasher I’m looking at you).

He is in his 30s.

My husband throws out clothes with poo on them. 😬 I try to stain remove poo and food but in all honesty, stains don't always come out. I've tried elbow grease, vanish, hand washing beforehand etc. Vests, babygrows and white t-shirts with stains tend to end up being binned.