To ask how to save my baby's lovely clothes?

[Mnk711]

Have been staying with family for a little while and my 6 month old DS has started crawling since we've been away. Very sadly most of his lovely sleepsuits/rompers have been ruined by crawling on grubby floors. Can anyone tell me how I can save them, as my DD also wore some of these suits and I wanted to hand them on to my sister?

The main culprit of the staining seems to be some kind of red dust from a wall that said family are stripping back to the stone underneath it (this isn't a live project, wall has just been left unfinished so it's small amounts of continuing dust falling rather than me letting my baby crawl around a building site!). There are also black, grubby marks (possibly dirt, their kitchen tiles have pock marks in them so family members say they're hard to clean).

I'm doing my best to keep him from the grubbiest places but I pick up my cup of tea from the coffee table and he's suddenly shot behind the sofa or something so washing advice critical 😂

I don't know about the staining, but I used dark baby jeans or joggers over a bodysuit once they were crawling

60 degree wash, loads of detergent (4 times normal amount) and a huge squirt of washing up liquid in the detergent drawer. Sounds simple but really worked for me! Worth a go. I like this method because it works with non whites too as opposed to bleaching.

Maybe just buy some clothes from a charity shop for him to wear around the house, ones that you don’t mind if they get stained.

Or just spray with stain remover, hand wash first giving the stains a good rub with a paste of washing powder, rinse very, very well to get rid of the stain remover and washing powder and then wash at 60 degrees in the machine. If they are still stained, then who cares, they are clean.

I find The Pink Stuff oxi powder very good. Plus sunlight - anything stubborn gets hung outside or spread out on the kitchen table, as we have a velux window directly above it.