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Thanks to everyone to answered my questions about washing. I take it newborn runny poo just dissolves in water and goes down the drain? I imagine there'd be some residue still in the washer, I guess that's what running the extra rinse is foor.
Another question, I know you're supposed to wash prefolds through more than one cycle. Do you dry them in between? Like do the wash in hot/rinse in cold... then the dryer... then the washer again? Or do you just run them through the washer more than once? Our baby is due in the middle of winter, so other than a wooden drying rack, it'd be kind of hard to put them on the line outside. :-) Does the dryer tend to make them get more wear and tear more?
And another question, I've seen "gauze" diapers... how on earth would you use diapers that don't seem to absorb anything?
Another question, I know you're supposed to wash prefolds through more than one cycle. Do you dry them in between? Like do the wash in hot/rinse in cold... then the dryer... then the washer again? Or do you just run them through the washer more than once? Our baby is due in the middle of winter, so other than a wooden drying rack, it'd be kind of hard to put them on the line outside. :-) Does the dryer tend to make them get more wear and tear more?
And another question, I've seen "gauze" diapers... how on earth would you use diapers that don't seem to absorb anything?