Tumble drying baby clothes?

daisiegg

We usually only tumble sheets, towels and occasionally socks/pants. I don't normally clothes even if the label says you can - think it is because my mum never did.

Anyway, I am washing baby clothes at the moment and struggling to get them dry. Can't dry them outside as we are having work done and the garden is taken over. Had a load on clothes horses and four days later bits are still slightly damp!

Wondering if I can put the next load in the tumble drier. Sorry if this seems a really obvious silly question - I know the labels say you can, but will things shrink or get ruined?

Also what setting should I use? There is a cotton setting and an easycare setting. Don't know what that means. The clothes are almost all cotton.

Thanks in advance for advice! If I sound like a complete idiot, blame baby brain...

Ladyluck1

I use the tumble dryer in the winter otherwise I wouldn't be able to dry our clothes! We go through a LOT!
I tumbled all dds baby clothes in the winter (she was born in November) and they were totally fine
Nice and soft too.
Eta; my dryer just has high and low heat setting and I always use low except for towels.

daisiegg

Ladyluck1 wrote: »

I use the tumble dryer in the winter otherwise I wouldn't be able to dry our clothes! We go through a LOT!
I tumbled all dds baby clothes in the winter (she was born in November) and they were totally fine
Nice and soft too.
Eta; my dryer just has high and low heat setting and I always use low except for towels.

Thank you

Fruball

I agree, use the low setting which would be the easycare one I think.

They shouldn't shrink. I tumble dry almost everything!

pollypenny

DIL tumble dries every single thing in the USA. The boys are fine.

carly

I always used to dry my DDs clothes in the dryer, no problems and no ironing either.
Just one word of caution: the press studs/ poppers on babygros can get extremely hot in the dryer ( if metal ) so don't dress the baby with clothes straight out of the dryer, let them cool first