Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / May 2009

No and no.

If baby clothes are not able to put up with multiple milk/puke/poo incidents
and can't take a pretty hot wash then they are not worth having.  Better
that they shrink the first time you use them if they aren't up to the job,
then you can just chuck them away.

So what ya selling?

I didn't know babies came with a care label. In these days of health and
safety, maybe all babies should have tattooed "This way up" on their
forehead immediately after birth...
Debbie

No, I don't really ever read the tags on clothes... I try and use common
sense - like a pair of blue jeans does not require bleach.
I believe another reply said something similar... If I can't wash it all
together in the washer, it's not worth having.
I tend to even wash my own clothes - that I hadn't noticed were "dry clean
only" until I had the pants for a month or two - in the washer and dryer.
"Dry clean only" pants usually get a gentle cycle and hung to dry.
If I read all the tags on 6 peoples' clothing, well, I don't even want to
think about that.
No, I rarely even look at that care label thing.
The one thing I do kind of take a little more note on "care" is the diapers.
I have about a gazillion different styles of diapers - everything from
fitted AIOs to various fitted, diaper covers and even a bunch of flats - and
at first I just read the label real quick to see if it's recommended to be
used in the dryer or not.