I have recently discovered (why did it take me like 12 years?) that it’s so much easier to just wash cloth diapers that same day they’re used!

Making cloth diaper laundry easy

making cloth diaper laundry easyToday, I couldn’t find my diaper pail.  Why, I’m not sure. I’m thinking it’s outside airing out under the carport, and it’s cold and raining so I’m not going to go looking for it.  Each time we changed Jett’s diaper today, we just sat it on top of the dryer.  I’ve always been a dry, open pail mama, so having them out and exposed isn’t really that big of a deal for me.

After there were three or four piled on the dryer, I did a load of tshirts, and just decided to throw the diapers in with them.  (If you’re grossed out.. get over it!  Grown men’s tshirts are often nastier than baby pee – and sometimes have baby pee (and worse!) ON them!) As I went to do a second wash on them, I decided to smell the diapers to see if there was any urine smell left over (just to make sure it was necessary for me to do a second wash on them), and I smelled nothing.  They were clean.  All I could smell was the cold, wet smell of clean laundry!  My guess is that that urine didn’t have time to sit and really permeate the fabric like it normally does when you leave the diapers in the pail.

This could actually be the beginning of a new love affair with doing diaper laundry, again!

(Of course, he didn’t poop today, so it was easy to just do one wash cycle!  One can dream, right?)