Tumble drying baby clothes

[Bambam2019]

Due to give birth in a few weeks, so getting everything ready and washed now.
A lot of people have said not to use a tumble dryer to dry baby’s clothes, due to shrinkage, however I really don’t want to dry them on radiators around the house as I feel it takes longer, they never feel as fresh, and over time could cause damp. Plus, when baby is here I assume I’m going to have washing galore, there’s only a certain amount of radiators to use!
Does anyone else use the tumble dryer? So far we have found that the ‘baby care’ setting isn’t drying the clothes as well as the ‘extra dry’ option we use, could I realistically just use that?

I often wash baby clothes at 60 to get all of the associated yuck of them - poo, vomit, food, mud, snot, etc. And then tumble in the winter because I just don't have enough surface space otherwise.

If it shrinks, so be it. Life's too short for bad quality baby clothes.

The baby will grow out of them quickly enough without worrying about shrinkage. Tumble them - it’s depressing having washing slowly drying around you in the winter if you can avoid it.

I don't tumble dry as it does shrink them slightly each time. I put them on the large electric towel rail in the bathroom, they are dry in 6 hours.

Having tried a some different brands of baby clothes I think that much more an issue rather that the tumble drier itself. Everything I had from George shrunk to the next size down but m&s and John Lewis were fine.

I have the same policy as kumquat. Survival of the fittest.

I always tumble baby clothes (after they have been over the airer) the waist bands can be quite thick.

My friend puts them on the airer and that it's. I don't believe that they can be totally dry after that.

Each to their own.

We have a washer-dryer (no space for separate washing machine and tumble dryer) and it does shrink clothes plus we obviously can't wash and dry different loads at the same time. We recently had baby number 2 and bought a heated airer for drying laundry. We put it in a small room with a dehumidifier running and the laundry dries really quickly. It's only in the winter or wet weather, anyway, we dry laundry outside in dry weather from spring to autumn.

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DH once asked me not to tumble dry his work tops. I told him if his clothes needed special treatment he should do them himself.

Funnily enough he copes with tumble dried work tops instead (they don't shrink, it was something about the way the feel).

@Frlrlrubert I think it’s about the slightly different feel too. Although when his snowflake tshirts do get accidentally tumble dried, he doesn’t actually notice (unless he’s folding the laundry). If they’re just in his drawer, he is absolutely none the wiser. 😂

Due to using cloth nappies we washed everything at 60deg for the first 4-6 weeks but dried on the line. As she grew out of the first size/up to 1month clothes I could tell which were my favourite baby grows as they were slightly smaller.
We have washed her 0-3 month cloths at 40 but now dry using a tumble drier and haven't noticed shrinking or variablilty in sizes. I don't know if this makes a difference but I separate items out before tumble drying so dry all the baby clothes together, then the muslin nappies then our clothes so that the small bits don't get extra tumble drying time whilst it waits for the bigger items to dry. I also use iron dry settings rather than cupboard or extra dry.

@Seriously79

I always tumble baby clothes (after they have been over the airer) the waist bands can be quite thick.

My friend puts them on the airer and that it's. I don't believe that they can be totally dry after that.

Each to their own.

I've got a 3 month old, no tumble dryer and have been drying everything on laundry racks next to a radiator. Everything (waistbands included) is bone dry by the evening, every evening 🤷‍♀️

They dry fine on the airer.
We have washable nappies. The night ones are thick bamboo, and can go in tumble dryer. But tbh I only use tumble dryer if I’m running out of them. They still dry overnight on drying rack indoors fine.
I also did throw odd baby grow in tumble dryer if needed, but I think they do shrink a bit and loose more fibres so not as soft overtime. I prefer using rack. Everything including waistbands are bone dry.

If you house is heated warm which most are with small baby, stuff should dry easily in one day/ overnight.
My orders house is cold and damp, stuff never drys there and smells musty as it takes so long to dry

*orders = parents

Depends on brand. Next shrink horribly. Frugi and Maxomorra not at all