Originally Posted by 00Pepper

I'm right in the middle of building up my CD supply and transitioning from disposables to cloth so I'll be interested in hearing the pro's process. Here is what I've come up with so far.

1. Take off diaper
2. Wet dipes put in a desginated plastic bag (don't have a pail yet)
Dirty dipes get sprayed off and put in the bag as well.
3. Wash - twice if needed
4. I air dry mine but I know you can put them in the dryer.

LOL Thats it!! I don't have many yet so I have to wash them really often.

Originally Posted by Cloyster

So where do you spray the poo to? Just down the drain? The toilet? The garbage? lol..I'm lost.

Originally Posted by Choppystix

I'm not sure if all work this way but the kind I use must be washed several times before their first use. They recommend 5-7 washes but I did three washes (drying in between) and my absorbency and everything is fine.

I stuff all of my diapers as soon as they're dry so I have them all ready to slap on her. Most diapers go in the sink until the end of the day when I have a chance to rinse them but poos get delt with asap. If there is poo in the diaper I will dump (pun ) the poo into the toilet, remove the insert and then rinse the outter shell of diaper in cold water until all poo is gone (in my designated diaper sink in my bathroom) then rinse both the shell and insert in hot. If it's just pee I separate them and rinse in hot water. They go into my trash bag lined bucket until time to wash. Some people may see the prerinse as wasteful but the one week I didn't I had ammonia problems. Super smelly and little booty burns if she spent too long (nap and nighttime) in a dirty diaper.

Everyone seems to have a different method of washing that works for them. What works for us is:
**I wash right before I go to bed so that they can dry over night**
1. Hot wash with detergent (we're using the BumGenius brand atm and it works great for us, no smellies!). Most say the first should be cold to avoid stains but my prerinse before they go into the pail keeps us stain-free.
2. Hot wash, no detergent.
3. As long as there are no suds in the previous wash and they smell good then they're done washing IMO. I hang the liners by the tabs, 3 to a hanger on my laundry room pole thing, the inserts get draped over hangers. If I need more room I use my shower curtain rod as back-up.

Once they're dry I stuff them (double stuffed for nighttime nappies) and put them away.

I think that's about it.