Does anybody wet pail their MCNs?

[mumtotwo]

Charlottes poos have been TOXIC lately and its staining all my nappies :-( not helped by the crappy Canberra winter weather.

I wonder if wet pailing would help with stains??

[AliP]

What did you end up doing Beanie? I wet pailed in the beginning but got worried about having a bucket of wet water around when Isabel became mobile.

[Ali]

I wet pail mine - mostly because they are only night nappies now, and I'm not going to wash them daily.
I have found that with my front loader, if I do a clothes wash and put the nappy in, it doesn't rinse thoroughly enough and really irritates the skin.
So I wet pail until i've got enough for a load, then wash. I often do a second wash cycle with no detergent as a rinse too. I know it's not the best use of water - but then, I can bucket off the water out into the garden so it's not all going to waste!
Ali

[lindys]

I wet pail in plain water- my bucket is up in the laundry trough. I do this instead of an initial rinse cycle in the machine.

[AliP]

Good idea Lindy!

I'll soon be washing every day though so it probably won't be as much of an issue for me

[Beanie]

Ali, I started washing every day. I throw our own underwear and a towel or whatever in with them, so the load fills up. It has made a definite difference to the smell etc.

[kerri_mum_of_5]

I have been using MCN for the last 17.5 months, I have never dry pailed always soaked them in a bucket of water with half the recomended amount of napisan. I have never had any problems with the elastic going or any sort of smells or anything. I know nappisan isnt recomended.. but I did it at my own risk, and so far every thing is ok

[Bec259]

Only with poey nappies. I give them a rinse under the tap, them in a bucket of plain water.

[johT]

now bree has toxic toddler poo i rinse and or scrub in the laundry tub then dry pail - sometimes i give night nappies a rinse, she usually manages to poo in it before i get it off anyways wet ones get dry pailed still...

[Biddy]

I wet pail in plain water- my bucket is up in the laundry trough.

I too do this with the pooey nappies.

If the weather is nasty I dry them inside on a clothes airer and try to position it in the sunniest spot in the house to help with the stains. Funnily enough, this is usually the laundry!