Hello!

I am Jaime, mom to a 10 month old boy. We have been CD since the beginning with prefolds, pockets, fitteds, etc. A total mix of diapers. We went 7 months before we had any issues. We live in Arizona and have extremely hard water.

The problems started shortly after we replaced our old fashioned top loader with a top loader HE :(

Washing routine: Wet bag until wash, then cold rinse, then hot wash with 2 cold rinses with 1Tbsp Rockin Green Hard Rock. Everything is line dried.

The first issue at 7 months was horrible smell (not ammonia) after he would wet. Then he developed a horrible diaper rash - an irritant dermatitis that required steroid cream and disposables for a week :(. We stripped first with RLR and when that didn't work, we used Rockin Green Funk Rock. I assumed we had detergent or mineral buildup.

We have a local CD store that was guiding me with the stripping and issues. When I strip, I put all diapers into the bathtub, hot water, some boiling water, and add 4T of Funk Rock, and then rinse at least 5-6 times and make sure no bubbles.

We then did well for about a month and the same problem occurred, and we stripped again.

That lasted for about a month and then we developed horrible ammonia smell. We stripped again, and now a month later ammonia is coming back.

I am at a loss for what to do. Stripping takes me a good 2-3 days and it is driving me crazy to have to do it once/month. Especially after going 7 months with no issues!!!

Help!!! My husband loves our cloth dipes but is sooo close to giving up!

Thanks.