Laundry

It's funny to me that as soon as you have a baby, you're supposed to go through and replace all your detergents and soaps with mild, hypo-allergenic, fabric-friendly products.  I know this is supposed to protect the baby's skin from chemicals, dyes, and other unnatural ingredients, but I'm pretty sure it's a conspiracy cooked up by the baby clothing industry.  After seeing some of the things that come out of both ends of our baby, what they really need to recommend is extra-strength, heavy-duty, quintuple-concentrated, bleach-filled, stain-fighting super-detergent.....the kind of stuff used in hotels to clean the sheets after a rock band has been through.

Kate had one incident the other day where her diaper leaked out the back.  The blanket she was wrapped in has now been washed once in Dreft (the baby-friendly detergent), once in color-safe bleach, and once in Oxi-Clean, and has also been through a couple of spot treatments.  And yet, there's still a big orange stain that won't go away....what's up with that?