yes, "the jelly stuff" would worry me too, it's the chemicals IN the jelly that are the scarey bit.

the nuture nappies website (under info) used to have a "what is in disposble nappies" article, that opened my mind, about what is actually IN sposies. It's scarey the behind the cuddly cute commericals, what is actually inside those sposies (stuff that is not at all cuddly and cute).

i would re-wash them too - at 60 degrees, prewash, long wash cycle, long rinse cycle.