How to wash a newborn's clothes?
The current level of technology allows us to produce laundry detergents that can be quite effective. They remove stains, make things whiter, and maintain texture and color. Everything would be fine, but young or expectant mothers will definitely have a question about how to wash their newborn’s clothes, and are these modern washing products suitable for the skin of a newly born baby?
The washing process is not so pleasant, but it is mandatory, so this issue is very relevant and cannot be ignored. Of course, a young mother will have a lot of worries, and washing is included in this list, as well as ironing and other worries associated with the baby.
Preparatory work for washing
This may seem strange, but such work exists. First, you need to decide on the container where your baby’s things will be put for washing. Dirty baby diapers should not be placed together with adult clothes. This is an axiom. Mommy can take several bags or a basket and put things there. For convenience and to save time, you can immediately arrange them according to the following criteria:
- white;
- colored.
It should be noted that it is undesirable to leave dirty things without washing for a long time, since microorganisms appear in dirty (and also wet) things that can be harmful to the baby.
Products for washing newborn clothes
No matter how much progress is made, and no matter what means are offered, the older generation is 100% confident that there is no better product for washing, like laundry soap, 72% soap. It's hard to disagree with them. After all, we know that this particular soap is made from natural ingredients and does not contain questionable ingredients.But this soap has a significant drawback. And this is what it is.
It can only be used by washing things by hand, the process is tedious and long. But this soap is not suitable for automatic washing machines. True, you can try an ordinary activator machine, grate the soap on a coarse grater, and throw it into hot water.
The automatic washing machine allows you to not be near it, and performs all operations without human intervention. But when starting this process, you need to take into account all the nuances, and what to wash the newborn’s clothes with.
- The laundry detergent must clearly indicate that the detergent is suitable for washing items such as newborn babies.
- The product should not contain substances such as surfactants, phosphates and chlorine.
- It is possible to use air conditioners, but you also need to look at its composition.
- Strictly follow the instructions for the amount of product used.
- You should not buy detergent for future use.
Rules for washing baby clothes
- For hand washing, you can use baby and laundry soap. You need to wash in very hot water, or use boiling water. You need to rinse the laundry a lot (5), each time making the water colder, regardless of the detergent.
- To wash in an automatic machine, select the children's wash program, and if there is none, you need to set the temperature to 60-70 degrees, + additional. rinsing.
- Washing adult and children's underwear is not recommended.
- If the diapers are just written, then only rinsing is enough, but provided that the baby is breastfed. In this case, the baby's urine does not have an unpleasant odor.
- Diapers that have remains of feces are first cleaned of them, the dirty area is washed, and only after that they are put in the washing machine.
- Pay attention to the recommendations for caring for children's things.
- Do not use bleach. This is fraught with manifestations of allergies, and even poisoning by residual vapors.
- Choose conditioners without fragrances.
- It is advisable to dry your baby’s clothes in the fresh air, since drying them in an apartment will lead to increased humidity levels. What is completely unhealthy for all residents, and even more so for the little ones, is also because it (humidity) is the first friend of mold and fungi, which, in the course of their life, negatively affect the air in the room.
These rules are quite simple and do not require special knowledge. Love and care will tell a young mother how to cope with laundry, and our recommendations will simply complement them.
To iron or not to iron? - That is the question!
Protecting the baby from infection is the mother’s main task, especially in the first month, since the umbilical wound heals during this period. Therefore, the issue of ironing things is not discussed. They need to be ironed on both sides using the steam mode. Steaming is an additional means of disinfecting things. It’s great if the washing machine program has a steam treatment option, in which case steaming with an iron is not required. But you will still need to iron things.
The existing assertion that what is too much is also not healthy is not unfounded. And that's why.
The baby must get used to the world around him and everything that surrounds him, including germs and bacteria. His body must learn to fight and resist them.
And excessive sterility can lead to the fact that the baby’s body will take too long to learn to resist bacteria, and this in turn will lead to constant “grabbing” of even minor infections. Therefore, after the navel has healed, there is no need to be so zealous with ironing. Some items can be ironed, while others may not need it at all.
Set aside the time that ironing takes for the second participant in the process, the emergence of a new life, for your husband. He is already “tired” that little attention is paid to him, he wants to feel care and love. And, of course, he also wants his mother, as the beloved woman who gave him a child. Dad must know that he is needed not only as a provider, but as a loved one and a desirable man!
Conclusion
Even before a mother becomes interested in the question of how to wash her baby’s clothes, she must determine a place to store children’s clothes. This can be a separate chest of drawers, or a shelf in an adult closet. But we can definitely say that storing both adult and children’s things in one place is undesirable.
- Firstly, this is quite inconvenient, since you will need to rummage through all the things to find what you need.
- And secondly, it is not hygienic, because the baby is too small to withstand adult odors, microbes, and residues from adult powder.
Children's underwear is sorted and laid out so that even at night in the dark you can immediately find the item you need.
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1 reader comment
My wife and I spent a long time choosing a powder for our child, and in the end we accidentally came across “Dosenka” washing powder for children in a hypermarket and decided to try it. Everything washed off fine, and we’ve been using it ever since.