The Baby Laundry Hack New Parents Need To Know

A parent’s hack for hanging out baby clothes has captured the attention of new mums and dads on the internet, and it’s so simple.

The tip was posted on Nubs and Bumps Facebook page in June 2018, and involves hanging babygrows upside down and clipping them over the clothing rack using its own poppers.

The genius part of it? No pegs are needed.

Parents have been bowled-over at the easy idea, with one person commenting: “This saves using loads of pegs because mine are always disappearing or breaking, don’t know how I didn’t think of this before.”

Another wrote: “Can’t believe I didn’t think of this, we never have pegs either - definitely using for the next load of washing.”

Other parents did point out that popping all three poppers of the babygrow would take even more time, when you only really need to do one.

“Looks like it’s a great idea... but is it not actually way more work to be doing up all those poppers and the undoing them all when dry? I’d just do one up,” one mum wrote.

Another comments: “How long would it take to button up all those press studs? No sleep deprived mummy or daddy is doing this haha, you could make it quicker by just doing up one popper.”

Do you have any parenting hacks that make your life easier? We’d love to know! Share them with us by emailing ukparents@huffpost.com.

Before You Go

Baby Sleep Tricks

The Guide Book(01 of04)

The Gentle Sleep Solution: The Naturally Nurturing Way To Help Your Baby To Sleep offers a gentle alternative to controlled crying methods. Drawing on her experience as a psychologist, CBT therapist and mother of four, Shallow teaches parents, firstly, how to identify the underlying reason for their baby's troubled sleeping by reading their behaviour, and, secondly, how to respond in ways that will help to reduce their anxiety and allow them to fall asleep independently. (credit:Jupiterimages via Getty Images)

The Bedtime Story Book(02 of04)

Swedish behavioural psychologist and linguist Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin spent more than three years perfecting his bestselling sleep-inducing bedtime story The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep. Using psychological and positive reinforcement techniques to help little ones to relax, focus and eventually drift off, he describes the story as “the verbal equivalent of rocking a baby to sleep.” (credit:Penguin Random House)

The Smartphone App(03 of04)

The Sound Sleeper app, gives you a choice of sounds for lulling your baby to sleep according to her personal preferences – whether that’s the rhythm of the womb, a gentle ‘shhh’ or the sound of a vacuum cleaner. It also ‘listens’ for your baby and starts playing the sound you’ve chosen as soon as it hears a whimper. You can even track your baby’s sleep and generate graphs to help you learn and analyse your baby’s sleep patterns. (credit:Layland Masuda via Getty Images)

The Night Light(04 of04)

The Sleepy Baby™ Biological LED Lamp light bulb works by filtering out the stimulating blue light spectrum that can inhibit your baby’s production of the sleep hormone, melatonin. Although it provides adequate light for bedtime stories, nappy changes and night-time feeds, your baby’s brain registers the light as darkness, making it easier for them to fall back asleep. (credit:Lighting Science)