Prepping night

Well my package from my local cloth diaper store Simple Wonders just came in. I loved that she came by to not only give me a demo of the diapers she had but to actually come by and drop off the package herself since she was in the area. I'm so very excited so I'm staying up late till I can put the diapers into the dryer or hang them from the wash so this fluff mail night has become a prepping night since I'm just so super excited just to get these on the twins.

G-force next to the new fluff.

What I ordered was eight softbum shells with 24 pods and mini pods and 4 fuzzibunz. Before any of the new additions came I had already started a wash of my small stash. After getting all the velcro on the laundry tabs and the small stash was removed from the washer. I dumped everything into my top loader. Now I didn't add them into the stash that was already being cleaned while I got the fluff mail ready I've heard something about chemicals in new fluff could ruin the absorbency I'm not sure if this is true or not but I don't want to find out.



Now I did a four stages before going into the drying stage. A pre-wash in cold water with no detergent to get out all the poop out followed by a hot wash in super clean or for my washer ultra clean at this stage I leave the lid open giving me the opportunity once it is filled to change the setting from a cold rinse to a warm one. Followed by one more rinse to hopefully get all the suds out. 

So prewash, wash, rinse, and rinse is my washing routine. For the detergent I use to wash the diapers is All Free and Clear. When I told my husband that I wanted to cloth diaper and that we would be needing a different detergent for the diapers then what we use for the clothes and the clothes of the twins. He immediately started to research about detergents that can be used for the diapers I don't know where he found it but his searched led him to All Free and Clear. So far with the smaller stash it was working on keeping the stink out. So I've yet to try out a striping of the diapers as of yet.

After the wash is all done I put all the pockets and anything else that needs to be hanged to dry separated and placed on top of the laundry sorting station. I've yet to sun these, so I'm not sure how well that will go since we live in the Pacific Northwest and with the rain I will have to try to sun them by a window, but I've bought a used diaper with a poop stain and was able to get rid of the stain not by sunning just by using equal parts milk and white distilled vinegar and letting it stand for a few minutes.