Storing pooey nappies

[ChocolateMoose]

A question about the less glamorous side of cloth nappies - don't know anyone in RL to ask. If I dry-pail for 1 or 2 days nappies which are covered in bf poo, will they be stained after washing, and would it help to use any special detergent? At the moment with the ones where a fair bit of poo has escaped the liner I'm just putting them in the washing machine straight away at 60 - usually there's a day's worth of wet nappies to wash as well, but not always, and I'm not feeling it's very eco-friendly or economical. I'd like to wash every other day but I like the whiteness of my Flexitots at the moment!

Any advice gratefully received.

dry pail, they'll be fine

any staining goes v fast in sunlight (brigth windowsill is fine if you don;t normally line dry)

some peopl euse Napisan (which is basically Oxy powder) but it's not good to use regularly on wraps or on nappies with elastic

I dry pail, I don't always wash them for 2 or 3 days. Do they get stained? Yes! Do I care... no! No-one's going to see them, and they're only going to receive more of the same.

But if you want to keep them white you might have to keep washing more often...

dry pail. Bf poo probably won't be a problem and as MrsBadger says, a bit of sunshine will sort it out.

But you might as well get over the whiteness fetish - they will get stained anyway when you move onto solids

They're more likely to be stained if just washed at 40 with usual liquid, but two scoops of Lidl's W5 'Vanish' powder plus a large swig of cheap vinegar will then get the stains out.
I tend to wash my Kushies twice a week so there's clean ones for nursery.

and if you are using reusables for environmental reasons, I think that washing a day's worth at a time is going to cancel out any environmental benefit. That's a terrible lot of water and heat to waste.

Try using a sanitiser like BioD rather than napisan whcih is quite harsh. Sunshine is best but seems to be in limited supply atm!

Don't be tempted to use too much detergent as it will build up in the weave of the fabric and reduce absorbancy.

I store mine in an extra large MonkeyFoot wet bag rather than a bucket.

You could chuck them in with whites if you aren't fussed about mixing your washing. Would save on lots of extra washes.

and I dry pail, or rather leave the bagged nappies in a pile next to the dry pail. Great fun when opening them up to put in the machine and guessing which ones contain Poo Surprise

A is 14 months and eats loads of solids and I haven't got irredeemable stains yet - although my fourth-hand Bumbles are somewhat greyish.

notcitrus - do you use washable wet bag or nappy sacks? The nappies should be fine stored in a wet bag.

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I have Guess The Poo Surprise from nursery sometimes - some of the staff are happy to drop the poo down the loo but some wrap it up carefully and send it home.
I do undo them every nigth though so they never get too rank

Thanks for the advice. I know washing every day isn't very eco-friendly, but I've only recently started going full-time in cloth so I'm cutting myself a bit of slack at the moment until I get the hang of it. To wash less often I probably need to buy a few more anyway...

Just do what makes life easiest for you!

Octo - nursery chuck the dirty nappies in those ultrathin plastic baggies. It works pretty well now I've dinned into them that if they've run out of paper liners to TELL ME and use a disposable or two if need be that day. And I only give them one-piece nappies which they seem to have no problem with (prestuffed pockets or AIOs) - the head of baby room really wanted to get to grips with nippas and wraps but despite various demos she always ended up with leaks and/or a broken nippa (how???). Whereas the others don't leak at all.

The baby changing table is in the main baby room so staff can't really go take poo to the loo.