So today was the second day I washed the diapers, but it was the first attempt at cleaning dirty diaper, not just wet ones :/. So I gathered up all the diapers and everything I would need to clean them (homemade detergent, scrub brush, a bar of Fels-Naptha®, my drying rack and a fan). I started by emptying out my makeshift diaper pail into one side of our double sink and started rinsing them out one by one to make sure each one was mostly poop free, while filling the other side of the sink with cool water and just putting the bar of Fels-Naptha® in the sink when it was filling up (seems to work really well for getting out the leftover stains). I then let the prefolds and covers soak while I rearranged our budget (about 30-45 mins). After that I took them out and re-rinsed them under running water while draining the other side of the sink to get rid of the left over poop-ies. Then refilled the same side up with hot water and adding 1 Tbs of my awesome detergent, again, let it soak while I finished re-working our budget and checking FaceBook (another 30-ish mins). Then finally drained the now-cooled water and added fresh cool water to each side, I then "swished" the diapers around (making a figure 8) for about 3 mins in one side then kinda "smushed them down to get rid of any left over soap that was still lingering. After that I switched them to the other cool side of the sink by taking each one out of the "dirty" sink wringing it out over the water then placing it into the other sink until the "dirty" sink was empty. Finally I "swooshed" them around some more to be certain all the soap was removed then took them out one by one and wrung them as best as I could to remove all the water then hung them up on my drying rack with the fan pointed at them. They should be dry by the time I get to wash the next load :)
Oh and for stubborn stains, especially on the covers, I just took the bar of Fels-Naptha® and scrubbed it on the stain and lathered it up (it wont be very much) I took the scrub brush I had and just scrubbed the stain, working the soap into it. then continued with the rinse and the stain came right out.
The same method can be used to clean out the "diaper pail" (my little waterproof laundry carrier I got from Wal-Mart.
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