Wahmies/Drybees Cloth Diaper Care

Preparing Your Diapers For Use

Please pre-wash your Wahmies/Drybees cloth diapers before use. Wash your diaper in hot water with a reduced amount of detergent. You may dry your Wahmies/Drybees Cloth Diapers in the dryer, or outside on a clothesline. Wait until diapers are completely cool before stretching, pulling on, or stuffing diapers or you can ruin your elastics. Wahmies One Size, DryBees Pockets, Night Times, or Hybrid AIO's are all washed the same. Brightly colored night time diapers should be washed seperately the first time because some of the outer fleeces do bleed for the first wash. Washing brightly colored laminated diapers in extremely hot or boiling water may cause these diapers to bleed as well. Generally, this is a guideline for international customers as their washing water tends to be much hotter than what we use in the USA.

Microfiber inserts should be pre-washed on hot with reduced detergent. Please dry your microfiber inserts on low in your dryer or outside on a clothesline.

Bamboo Diapers should be prewashed two times or more for best absorbency before use. Bamboo fabric should be handled more gently. Do not stretch while wet or fresh out of the dryer. When line hanging Bamboo diapers hang so you are not pulling in the direction of the stretchiest part of the diaper (ie, hang sideways for diaper and soaker)

Washing your Wahmies/Drybees Cloth Diapers

Washing your Wahmies/Drybees cloth diapers are very easy. First, fold back your laundry tabs. This ensures that you won't find the dreaded "diaper snake" after you wash your diapers. Take care the first few times to match up the hook and loop carefully until your diaper tabs "learn" where to fold easily. Next pull out the inserts. Finally throw it all in the washing machine. Choose the water level that will completely cover all your diapers and use a reduced amount of detergent. You can use a second rinse to ensure all of the detergent is rinsed out. Please dry your diapers in the dryer or outside on a clothesline.

Tips and Tricks

• Avoid using Free and Clear, baby detergent or cold proceessed (natural) soap based laundry detergents. These can leave a residue that builds up over time causing stinky dipes! A heavy smell of urine after your baby pees is an indication that your diapers need to be rinsed more completely.
• If your Wahmies/Drybees Cloth Diapers get a stain, simply lay them out in the sun, and the sun will bleach away your stains naturally!
• The waterproof material used to make Wahmies/Drybees Cloth Diapers was made for for the medical industry. Don't be afraid to toss them in your home dryer!
• While consistent and frequent use of product such as bleach or stain fighters will reduce the life span of your diapers, we feel that sparlingly use of bleach once a month will help keep your diapers sanatized, clean, and fresh. Too much bleach, or using it more often than once a month will begin to wear down your diapers too quickly. Be sure to rinse completely.