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Tumble drying baby clothes?
daisiegg
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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...
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...
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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.I'm C, Mummy to DS 29/11/2010 and DD 02/11/2013
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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.
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I agree, use the low setting which would be the easycare one I think.
They shouldn't shrink. I tumble dry almost everything!Putting these winter preps here so I don't forget!
Curtain pole installed in the living room
Paint curtain pole
Window quilts for landing window & french door
Add shrink film to the kitchen door & insulate
Insulate front door
Bubble wrap windows & french door
Wash front door curtain
Blind for the bathroom
Find wrist warmers & the wool socks!
Wash heated throws
Wash duvet & wool blankets
Buy vest tops to go under clothes and PJs
Buy nets for bathroom and kitchen
Buy or make blind for kitchen0 -
DIL tumble dries every single thing in the USA. The boys are fine.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
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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 first0
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