Washing baby clothes

[mrsleomcgary]

I admit,I just chuck my daughters stuff in the machine with mine and my husbands and put it on a quick 30minute cycle at 30 degrees. But saw an ad earlier for anti-bacterial soap powder which got me thinking. Day to day I suppose 30 is fine but for the washing that's a result of a leaking nappy and covered in pee and poo 30 degrees really isn't hot enough is it? What should I be doing with it?

I soak clothes that have been leaked on or have bad food stains in a plastic tub of very hot water (normally I just leave them there while putting ds to bed). Then dry them on the side of the bath before putting them in the laundry basket.
Then I wash everything at 30 the same as you all bunged in together.

I just bung everything in. Poo stained stuff got an extra spoonful of napisan.

I wash out pooh or food stains in water before sticking in normal wash, and if its a big stain I put it in with a 40 wash.

Best thing to get rid of pooh stains on clothes though is sunshine (short supply in scotland sadly) a day of drying in the sun and that pooh stain will literally vanish (honest :-)

Oh and I use cold water when I wash the stain by hand before putting in machine.

I tend to put the pooey stuff, which tends to be light coloured, in with the whites and do it at 60. Everything else, or pooey coloureds/darks gets done at 40, sometimes with an extra stain remover in. Really soiled stuff I would rinse first. I do towels and bedding at 70/80, sometimes even 90! Only do delicates at 30.

Anything stained sits in a bucket of cold water until it goes in the machine in our house. It would get a hotter wash than 30 though - like Forago I would probably do a whites wash at 60, but generally 40 is the minimum for actually wash anything rather than giving it a quick refresh.

I'm doing better than I thought then,I usually do soak anything poo stained in cold water with a bit of detergent for a few hours. Have the machine on at 60 just now though for the first time ever,having nightmares that everything's going to come out tiny!