The appearance of a baby in the family is a great joy, but new concerns also appear. How to wash diapers and undershirts so as not to harm delicate skin? Doctors strongly advise using only baby soap and no detergents for washing.
What to choose - soap or powder?
The annoying advertising strongly convinces that baby powder is much better than baby soap, and does not harm the baby in the least. However, there is a strong belief that the best detergent for washing children's clothes is laundry soap. It is difficult to disagree with this. Laundry soap contains only natural substances, so it does not cause an allergic reaction. In Soviet times, grated laundry soap, in which baby diapers were boiled, was an indispensable attribute of the presence of a newborn child in the house.
Up to two months, baby clothes can only be washed with baby or laundry soap.
Fortunately, times have changed, and moms no longer have to rub their calluses, endlessly washing and rinsing out dirty children's clothes. Automatic washing machines came to the rescue. However, the problem of choosing a detergent remained.
Children's doctors remain unconvinced - baby clothes can only be washed with baby or laundry soap for up to two months. However, doctors are well-known conservatives, so you can trust your common sense as well. If you decide to buy baby powder, pay attention to its composition. It is desirable that the basis of the powder was a soap composition, and it would also be useful to mark "hypoallergenic". That's all, there should be no more additives in the powder. Only in this case can you be sure that its use will not cause unpleasant consequences for your baby.
How to wash baby diapers
However, it is not at all necessary to wash the described diapers with soap every time, you can simply rinse them in warm water. Indeed, when breastfeeding, baby urine has neither color nor smell, so this method can sometimes be used without overusing it. Of course, this cannot be used when washing feces from the diaper; good disinfection is required here. The traces of the "catastrophe" must first be washed off with cold water, then the stains must be wiped with laundry soap and allowed to soak a little. Only then can you put it in the washing machine. It is necessary to wash in the "Boiling" mode, be sure to rinse twice. If you do not use disposable diapers, but cloth or gauze, you need to wash them in the same way.
After washing, children's clothes must be carefully ironed on both sides, in order to avoid the penetration of infection into the umbilical wound that is not yet overgrown.
When washing children's clothes by hand, the same notorious grated laundry soap can facilitate the task. Pour hot water into diapers with stains that do not want to wash off in an enamel bucket and place them on the stove. You need to boil for 30 minutes. Washes perfectly, no residue remains and your fingers are preserved.
These are the subtleties that exist in such a seemingly simple matter. Keep your little one comfortable in clean clothes!
