When did you stop pre-wear washing baby clothes?

[Loulovesummer]

Just wondering the above really.

DD is 6 months. I have been washing all of her clothes before she wears them ever since she was born.

my mum has bought her a lovely outfit to wear tomorrow for my birthday lunch. I want to put her in it so as not to upset my mum and also think it’s lovely but I can’t get it washed and dried between now and then.

is 6 months an ok age to not faff around with pre-wear washes?

Me too.

I wash new clothes before wearing most of the time but would not worry about the baby wearing the new dress today. It won't hurt her.

Also, happy birthday! Have a lovely lunch

For all those spouting forth about chemicals on new clothes, there are plenty of chemicals in laundry detergent.

I wash all new clothes before we wear them.

Never did. I don't wash mine before I wear them either.

The question was “What do you think you’re protecting them from”

Answer: Nothing they aren’t going to meet day and daily anyway. Unless of course you actually do put your kids inside a sealed bubble.

Is “death” really the line here?

Most clothes we wear are produced far away and will be covered in chemicals against mildew and insects, probably with a flame retardant thrown in. Formaldehyde is very commonly used and often responsible for that “chemical smell”. I’ll just leave here this Berkeley article about research linking formaldehyde exposure with brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s….
https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/study-exposure-to-formaldehyde-associated-with-increased-risk-of-brain-disease#:~:text=A%20study%20by%20researchers%20at,disease%2C%20and%20amyotrophic%20lateral%20sclerosis.

These chemicals are not something you would choose to feed your child presumably, and it is not really different to let them absorb them through skin.

It is fine to opt not to wash clothes, but factually incorrect to say the chemicals in question cause no harm to human health.

If the “chemicals” on clothes damaged health then:
1 they’d be banned
2 we’d we warned to wash clothes

Aside from that, skin is the largest organ in the body, its function is to be a barrier! Re your “feeding” comment I wouldn’t feed my child body cream , shampoo or shower gel either.
This has no scientific basis and not environmentally responsible.

Yes, but different chemicals...

There are çhemicals in everything, the important thing for health is understanding the difference between them.

1. They are banned above certain levels, but on tests the levels are often found to have been exceeded.
2. We are warned to wash them

Also @Maelil01 the skin is not a barrier to everything.

Some chemicals that cause long term harm are absorbed via the skin, including the ones sprayed on clothes.

Always wash clothes before wearing (everyone's). They're mass produced in factories, and then sit in warehouses, probably tried on a fair few times, or even returned item (yes it is obvious sometimes such as lipstick stain, faint perfume odour; but not always as obvious).

All new bedding states wash before use; I believe it's the same for all clothing; just as you would wash the cups and spoons before first use.

I don't wash new clothes before wearing them, I like the new clothes feel! I didn't wash DS's clothes before wearing either, even as a newborn and he's lived to tell the tale

I do wash second hand clothes first

Mine are 15 and 12 and I still do!

Mainly because DD has eczema and both have issues with textures so washing helps soften everything.

Never did.
I rarely wash anything before wearing, although I did recently was a new duvet cover before using as it smelled of the very plasticky packaging it had been in.

How have I reached almost 60 and not ever heard of this let alone done it.... I wear everything straight away, somethings are never the same shape wise once you've washed them.

OP, I washed all my babies clothes and stopped probably around 6 months. But always wash their new vests and pyjamas before they wear them now. But to put on a new outfit when your baby will have clean washed vest on underneath will be fine!

just as you would wash the cups and spoons before first use.
Nope, wouldn't do this either unless they looked particularly dusty.

I did for maybe the first week or so. That was it. We have got pets though, so it felt a bit silly to be too precious about hygiene. If we have another then I might not bother at all 😳

Incidentally, I had a friend at uni (from another European country) who washed everything before she wore it, even things she ordered online. She was mildly horrified that this wasn’t common practice in the UK.

I never have done, took all the clothes for ds being born to hospital still in packs.

Completely ridiculous.

I bought SIL a Tesco F&F Tiger Who Came To Tea babygro which I gave her when she came to see DP’s the other day. As she was staying over night with them she said she’d put it on him the next day which she did. It wouldn’t have been tried on another baby, was only in the shop and warehouse so how many germs it got there who knows?

It’s not eco friendly to wash clothes before you wear them anyway.

Second hand clothes are different. If they’re steamed does this sort of freshen them up?

We always wash clothes first for everyone in the family due to the chemicals used in manufacturing - they can cause an allergic or other sort of reaction. I thought everyone knew that and did the same. But clearly not. Each to their own.