Keeping room smelling fresh?

how do you keep your toddler's room smelling decent? My two are in (cloth) diapers at night and so in the middle of the night or in the morning, the room just STINKS!!! Opening a window is out of the question due to it being cold out. What do you do?

 

Nose plug!!!

 

hahaha, yep I would think that is about the best you could do.

maybe try air sanitizer sprays?

 

I like that Airwick hair fresher that is on a timer. We used that when the twins were little and pooping a lot over nights. Also I hear baking soda does a good job too.

 

QUOTE(Sarah© @ Dec 4 2008, 11:12 AM) [snapback]1097051[/snapback]
I like that Airwick hair fresher that is on a timer. We used that when the twins were little and pooping a lot over nights. Also I hear baking soda does a good job too.



We have the air wick thats on a timer and I just wanted to let you know be careful what scents you buy if you end up going this way. Some of the scents they have when mixed with a poop or pee smell make it smell WORSE!!!!!

I threw mine out b/c the smell was so aweful!

 

To be honest, and I know it's probably shallow, this is one the reasons I stopped using cloth diapers. I couldn't stand the smell in the morning!! But even know that they're in disposables I open the window whenever I get the chance, even if it's cold out. I just open it right up for an hour in the morning and I close their bedroom door so the rest of the house doesn't get cold. Fresh air works best.

 

Have you ever seen those basement/closet air fresheners that look like a mesh bag or a plastic tub full of rocks? We have one in the fridge that has worked forever, and I've lived in houses where they really helped with the basement smell. Since both of those places are kind of humid, and baby diapers are also 'wet' smells, those might work...maybe tacked under each bed? I think we got ours at Bed, Bath and Beyond. They last forever - you put them out in the sunshine for a couple of hours every few months to clear out the ickiness they've absorbed.

The other thing is those electric air cleaners you plug into a socket. We have one near the cats' boxes - you can get a special animal s mells filter that would probably work just as well for humans. They have them at Target...the downside with these is that you have to pay for the electricity and the filter refills...

(Edited because I remembered something else.)

 

I use the Airwick timer thing and it works...Well, most scents do. The lavender one makes the poo 10x worse! I like the one in the green and blue package the best with poo and pee smells. I put it on to spray every 9 minutes and I love the smell

 

I may be way off target with this suggestion, but I figured I'd throw it out there. I have no suggestions for the air smell, but I do have a magic trick for cloth diapers that helps them be less stinky. You may already know about it. It is called RLR, made by a company called Cadie and if you use it once per month or so it does a great job at stripping out residue that adds to the stink problem sometimes occurring with cloth diapers. You can get it at Walmart or on eBay.

I had to switch my boys to disposables for night time because they were SO stinky in the morning and actually had a strong ammonia odor that was causing irritation. We have really hard water, so that complicates washing the cloth diapers and finally I gave up on night time cloth diapers. We still use cloth during the day. I'm not suggesting you use disposables, just letting you know that I completely understand the frustration of stinky morning cloth diapers. In actuality, the disposables don't smell much better, but they don't present the ammonia battle that wreaks havoc on my diaper wash!

Another thing that can help clear the air is to use essential oils and add them to a pot of very hot / boiling water, then let the steam freshen the air (set it on the floor or somewhere your kids can't reach it if you can't keep them out. You could try lemon, peppermint, orange, eucalyptus, etc. I love essential oils, but that can be a hassle to do with little ones running around.

Good luck!!

 

I just open the window briefly, even when it's cold, and that helps clear it out. But then again the weather is probably milder by me than where you live!

 

I have also used the Air Wick timed spray freshner.. I also agree that certain scents that you can purchase make the diaper smell worse..

I recently bought the plug in air freshners and they work great.

 

Does the room smell from the diapers they are wearing or ones in the pail? I got a safety first diaper pail (made for disposables but I use it for my cloth) that has a little vented compartment on the top and I put some tea tree oil on a cloth and stick it in there. That covers all of the smell from the diaper pail. As far as the night diapers stinking while they are actually on your toddlers...I guess we'll be dealing with that when these guys get older. Right now I'm using cloth at night, too, but I don't think they go enough to cause a smell.

I agree with pp about those volcanic rock things...we accidentally left a gallon of milk in the trunk of my when these guys were first born (gotta love sleep deprivation!) and it got so hot (and sat so long) that it burst the container. The car smelled soooooo bad like rotten milk even after we scrubbed everything and replaced the carpet/mat...so we put one of those rock bags in the trunk and within a day the smell was gone.

 

QUOTE(fuchsiagroan @ Dec 4 2008, 09:41 PM) [snapback]1098149[/snapback]
I just open the window briefly, even when it's cold, and that helps clear it out. But then again the weather is probably milder by me than where you live!


Thats what I do, even if its only for five minutes.

I also wipe their mattress and crib, changing table, diaper genie, etc. down with a clorox wipe every week. And spray a little febreeze when I vacuum or if someone did a particularly rotten poopy.

 

We never had much luck with the timed air freshener....

We just keep either Air Wick or Glade plug in fan in the room, and just put it in an inconspicuous(Sp?) area, like behind the crib or fish tank, so they don't mess with it....

In the girls' room we have the Glade fan with extra outlets, and in the Angel whisper (or Angel wings, it's Angel something) scent, and in our Son's room (where the diaper pale is) we have Clean linen scent.

both do a good job of covering up any 'diaper' smell w/o mixing (like PP complained of the timed air freshener) so the room actually just smells like either Clean linen or Angel whisper....

We never had much luck with the timed air freshener....

We just keep either Air Wick or Glade plug in fan in the room, and just put it in an inconspicuous(Sp?) area, like behind the crib or fish tank, so they don't mess with it....

In the girls' room we have the Glade fan with extra outlets, and in the Angel whisper (or Angel wings, it's Angel something) scent, and in our Son's room (where the diaper pale is) we have Clean linen scent.

both do a good job of covering up any 'diaper' smell w/o mixing (like PP complained of the timed air freshener) so the room actually just smells like either Clean linen or Angel whisper....