Hello girls!
I hope you don't mind me jumping in. I have a few questions.
I started DD on cloth a couple of months back. All went well, I like her big bottilicious bum. She's wearing BBB + wool cover at night (sometimes PUL if the wool is in the wash)
day time, we have some Green Kids pockets, Peapod pockets & Swaddlebees OV pockets (using the hemp inserts in some, bamboo terry trifolds in others). I like them all. I jsut find the washing really hard to deal with. It wasn't so bad in the beginning, but I am pregnant now and have a sensitive nose and weak stomach. And her wee seems really strong. I dry pail and have recently washed every day to combat the smell problem. But when I open the nappy bucket, I find the urine smell sooooo overwhelming (I usually spray the room with orange oil first to "distract my nose". The smell of her morning nappy is also hard to handle. DH does the first nappy change most days as I just can't stomach it right after getting out of bed. But he's really over it and I think he just wishes we'd go back to sposies.
Now with the warm and humid weather, I find my whole laundry smells like a train station underpass. It's really gross. I have to do something about it. Any ideas? is there anything I can add to the nappybucket, to neutrlise the smell a bit? I have tried adding some Baking Soda, but it doesn't do anything. Somebody suggested nappy pail deodorisers, but where do I get something like that?
I'm usually not such a woos when it comes to smells, but I think pregnancy is not helping atm.
My mum is also coming next weekend to stay with us for 6 weeks. She's pretty opposed to cloth as it is, and I really don't want to turn her off even more. If anything, I had hoped to win her over by showing her that it isn't as bad as you'd imagine (she only ever used sposies on us and doesn't know anybody who did or does cloth). But atm, tbh, it is that bad. To me anyway.
I keep persisting, because I jsut spent all that money on my stash, and I kinda like it and am feeling I'm doing the right thing. And I already notice a big change in DD as to her awareness of her bodily functions. I just think I must be doing something wrong. I dry pail, rinse dirty nappies with the LS (DD has pretty creamy poos, that don't just roll off). Wet nappies go straight in the nappy bucket (lined with a bin liner). I don't really want to rinse them, I try to minimise the handling as I find it so hard to stop myself from vomiting...
Oh, I'm just a whimp...
Thanks for listening and any tips you might have.
Saša
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