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I know... weird huh? I never heard of anyone washing crappy diapers in the bathtub without removing said crap. I never let stinky diapers just sit there and stink. I dumped, rinsed, and plopped into diaper pail all in about a minute or two.
Throw the mess in the washer (hot water) and then dry. I did dry them all in the sun before my son was even born. (I lived in a house then.)I would have preferred to do so after he was born, but we were not allowed to hang laundry in the apartment complexes.
Thanks.
Some people are making it sound like cloth diapers are the hardest thing to use, and expensive to boot. Yes, it might cost $20.+ for a dozen REGULAR diapers and a few bucks for rubber pants. Just use the basic ones that mothers have been using for eons. I have looked online at the price of these new cutsie diapers with their multi-colored "covers" (glorified rubber pants that cost a fortune!) and was not impressed. What's wrong with plain white diapers and covers and diaper pins? What could be cheaper? I know, diaper pins are not as easy as velcro... but one does get good at using them with practice.
I realize it was 30 years ago, and I don't really know the cost of cloth diapers these days. Even if a dozen diapers cost $50. then $400. investment on diapers and covers (while pregnant) results in 3 years of diapers (and burp cloths, then rags ).
Everyone has laundry, so using the excuse that they can't get to a machine is beyond whiny. Don't their babies wear other clothes? Don't they have blankets and bedding that needs washing? What is the big deal then about going to the laundry mat to wash diapers?
I think it is one of two reasons. First off is that feces makes a lot of people sick. They have no clue that they are supposed to actually dump the stuff in the toilet before throwing the diaper away. Nope, no clue; they wipe baby and wrap it all up and throw it all away. We not only have disposable diapers filling up the landfill, but human feces throughout the landfill.
Laziness is included in this group because it is just lazy to not clean crappy diapers.
The second reason is probably the same reason I could never use disposables on my son... allergies. (I found this out while still in the hospital and they had him in Pampers and he came home with a real nasty rash.) Some baby skin is so sensitive to soaps.
I will also say that one does not need to expend all this extra care on cloth diapers that some are going on about. I washed diapers in hot, soapy water - I did use baby soap, but this was no more expensive than the other laundry detergent... and lasted longer because it was only for his diapers. I actually washed his laundry in whatever soap I used for the rest of the household laundry. He was exposed to it anyway when he was on my clothes. He was fine with that. I dried diapers and baby clothes without fabric softener.
Really, this is each mother's choice. I am just writing to let others know that cloth diapering is not the nasty process it is made out to be.
I think if you are going to wash them every day it's enough. However, if you can afford to buy another package, I would. I don't know, I had two kids in cloth diapers at one time, and it seemed like I had about thirty diapers max. I did wash them every day because I didn't want them to sit in that murky water overnight.
I do know this - you can save a TON of money using cloth diapers! Oh, and I used diaper pins as well. It all worked fine. In no time, you become a real pro at changing the diapers as well as rinsing them out, folding them when they're dry, etc.
I always thought there was something restful and wholesome about hanging them on a line to dry.
They make great dusting cloths when it's all over......
That still doesn't kill the germs, or fungal infections if that's an issue. That's why our moms and grandmothers boiled them on the stove. If you can't wash them in super hot water in a machine (hotter than you can hand wash with) you have to boil them.
Can you READ? Evidently not. YOU WASHED YOUR DIAPERS IN A WASHING MACHINE. Others here are trying to say that if women can't go to the laundromat because of cost or transportation, that it's the easiest thing in the world to wash diapers in the bathtub EVERY DAY. Even if you remove "said crap" in the toilet (which is what someone would obviously do) before you washed them in the tub, you still can't hand scrub poop soaked diapers enough to get them clean without a WASHBOARD, and then you would need to boil them to disinfect them. You admitted yourself that it was a pain to do a half dozen diapers that way, and all you did was swish them around in the sink and pour boiling water on them, which was fairly lazy.
BS.
have you ever tried to wash by hands?
seems not.
after removing the crap to the toilet and rinsing the diaper it is going to be WET, store it in a pail with water, so nothing will have to be scrubbed off as if it has been drying for days.
Can you READ? Evidently not. YOU WASHED YOUR DIAPERS IN A WASHING MACHINE. Others here are trying to say that if women can't go to the laundromat because of cost or transportation, that it's the easiest thing in the world to wash diapers in the bathtub EVERY DAY. Even if you remove "said crap" in the toilet (which is what someone would obviously do) before you washed them in the tub, you still can't hand scrub poop soaked diapers enough to get them clean without a WASHBOARD, and then you would need to boil them to disinfect them. You admitted yourself that it was a pain to do a half dozen diapers that way, and all you did was swish them around in the sink and pour boiling water on them, which was fairly lazy.
So you leave the poopy ones for when you go to the laundromat.
Geeze..when you have kids you end up doing lots more laundry then normal anyway.
If these poor women can't get to the laundromat and think it's too expensive then how are they washing their and their baby's clothes never mind the diapers.
Yes, they have a stacked washer/dryer that a friend gave to them. Washers can be found on craigslist all day long for less than 100 bucks. Again, excuses-excuses. I can find an excuse for anything, or I could just get up, shut up, and do the task.
If you're living at a subsistence level, $100 can be a fortune. You know that. Now we're talking about investing $100 in a washing machine, on top of the start up costs of diapers. If you can barely pay your rent and feed your kids, it might as well be $100K
We were DIRT POOR for the first five years of my kids' lives. I mean poor as MUD. (Whatever that means, but you get my drift.) One old car, and by the time we paid our bills, we had $100 left over - for the MONTH. Yep, that's $25 a week for groceries, gas, clothing, you name it. This was in the early 1980s so in today's economy that equates to about $58 a week. Inflation Calculator: Bureau of Labor Statistics We were poor, poor, poor.
Weird thing is, somehow we managed to acquire an old washing machine. I think my husband painted someone's garage or something like that in exchange for the washer. Anyway, that's what we used. For a long time, we didn't have a dryer. Then we got one, but it was always going out on us. So I used a clothesline most of the time.
If you're living at a subsistence level, $100 can be a fortune. You know that. Now we're talking about investing $100 in a washing machine, on top of the start up costs of diapers. If you can barely pay your rent and feed your kids, it might as well be $100K
Give it a rest. That's one month of lotto tickets and scratch-offs -- courtesy of the public dole -- for many of these freeloaders.
So you leave the poopy ones for when you go to the laundromat.
Geeze..when you have kids you end up doing lots more laundry then normal anyway.
If these poor women can't get to the laundromat and think it's too expensive then how are they washing their and their baby's clothes never mind the diapers.
Good lord--are you even TRYING to understand? READ the thread. The problem is that some women can't afford the additional costs at the laundromat to do diapers, especially when you have to run them through three times. Other people here are claiming that it's the easiest thing in the world to wash EVERY SINGLE DIAPER, EVERY SINGLE day, in the bathtub at home. You shouldn't be throwing diapers in with your regular laundry because they're loaded with ammonia and bacteria. They need to be washed separately, pre-rinsed, washed in SUPER HOT water (which most people don't use for their regular laundry because it shrinks cotton), and then rinsed again. You're talking the difference between one or two loads once a week for clothing, and an additional three wash cycles 2 or 3 times a week for diapers.
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YOU WASHED YOUR DIAPERS IN A WASHING MACHINE. Others here are trying to say that if women can't go to the laundromat because of cost or transportation, that it's the easiest thing in the world to wash diapers in the bathtub EVERY DAY. Even if you remove "said crap" 
in the toilet (which is what someone would obviously do) before you washed them in the tub, you still can't hand scrub poop soaked diapers enough to get them clean without a WASHBOARD, and then you would need to boil them to disinfect them. You admitted yourself that it was a pain to do a half dozen diapers that way, and all you did was swish them around in the sink and pour boiling water on them, which was fairly lazy.
