Stinkies!

Oh boy we had a bad case of them.  Not us silly but in our cloth diapers!  My diapers would smell nice and clean coming out of the washer and then as soon as the urine would hit them - bam!  They would stink.  Johnny-on-the-spot stink.  Ammonia smell can make your eyes water and that's what was happening.  I knew it was a problem when Brady our oldest would say 'Pierce stinks' and when I would check it was only pee in that diaper.  The smell was making me not want to put the diapers on our 6 week old.  So what's a mama to do? Well, first I changed detergents.  I was using BumGenius detergent and switched to Ecosprout.  I did the big soak and nothing happened.  Then I purchased some Funk Rock and tried that twice!  Nothing happened again.  I tried adding another rinse and sunning outside and nothing.  I was about to do the Dawn method of stripping but found that was only for diaper cream build-up and we don't have that.  After reading all kinds of blogs and websites on what to do I decided to take a chance.  After talking with another cloth diapering mama I used the XXsanitary cycle.  The cycle you aren't supposed to use but I was desperate people!  And it worked - HAPPY DANCE!  My diapers don't stink and came out nice and soft.  Cloth diapers aren't perfect but ya' know what, either are disposables.  And you don't have to cloth diaper 100% of the time to make a difference. We are going to keep on keeping on in our cloth!  :)