Messy bibs: the endless cycle

Babies are messy and as a result they create many messy bibs. Most bibs are safe to wash in your washing machine but if you have a truly messy baby you will go through at least three bibs a day, more if you count snacks. In order to have a clean bib for every meal you either need several bibs or need to run your washing machine more often than you want to.

I have found a simple washing solution for plastic and plastic coated cloth bibs. The dishwasher. I am much more likely to run the dishwasher daily, even several times a day then I am the washing machine.

Simply loop the Velcro or snap around the edge of the top rack with the bib pocket facing into the dishwasher. You don't want the pocket facing the door because, for some reason, the pocket is much more likely to collect old food than if it facing in. I wouldn't recommend washing more than two bibs at a time because you don't want to block the soap dispenser. Also, it's best not to use the heated dry option if your bib has a thin plastic pocket.

Using this method to wash bibs I never needed to have more than four bibs on hand and even if the two I just washed we still wet I usually had at least one clean and dry one ready to catch yet another baby mess.