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I am due with my daughter ANY DAY NOW, and am planning on purchasing the MEOS Bamboo's for her when she is a little bigger (or hey right off the bat if she is a bigger baby at birth). I have a few Sandy's and a couple other CD's I am going to experiment with in the beginning, but that's not tha point..lol.
I was wondering what kind of pail I should use for her dirty diapers. Here is my plan, let me know what you think.
We have a 2 story home with a basement (where the washer, dryer, and utility sink is). What we did with my son (who wore disposables) was have a regualr Diaper Champ upstairs in his room for any changing we did up there, and if I changed him on our main level in the living room, I just threw the diapers directly in the garbage can right outside of the door leading to the garage. Now my plan with Lily is to use the same Diaper Champ Pail upstairs for her CD's, throw any covers that need washing in her hamper, and of course do the diaper laundry every day or every other day. I was going to continue to line it was a garbage bag, and just carry that down when I do laundry. I was thinking about getting a large bag, like the Bummi's one, to line the Diaper Champ maybe. When we change diapers downstairs, I think I am going to just have another wet bag hanging inside the door to the basement, so I don't have to go all the way back upstairs to "toss" the diaper.
My main concern is that the Diaper Champ is AMAZING at containg the smell, but I have heard others say that it is better to have something that will let the diaper pail get air to it, so the smell doesn't get trapped and essentially set in in the diaper. I have also heard that the bamboo's don't smell as bad as the cotton? I also plan on using the cloth wipes, so those will be in the pail/bag along with the diapers as well if that matters. Should I purchase something else, like one of those flip top garbage cans, so the odor isn't trapped, or will it really make a difference?
Thanks!
Jen |
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Firstly:
Congrats!
Then:
ME highly recommends a wet pail. That being said, most of us mamas use a dry pail. Some people believe in letting the air flow. Personally, I haven't noticed much of a difference. We have a 2 story home. We have one screw on lid airtight plastic pail that is in our son's room by his changing table(dresser top with padding) and a second vented pail in a closet in our bathroom upstairs where we rinse the poo dipes. The screw on lid one is a necessity in our boy's room so he can't open it up and go diving into yummy potty dipes. The vented one is my 8 year old's posie dipe pail that I used years ago and kept. Both serve the purpose well but I haven't noticed air circ vs no air circ matters much.
I've had bamboo 9 months now and love it. Never any stinkies, super soft, very trim. We use the Sandy's and love them alot. I do have 2 cotton OS we keep in our son's diaper bag and they are so trim! I've never had bamboo OS but I'd bet they are about as trim as a posie.
Bamboo is great. I love it. Even though I've unfortunately had a few balding areas, I am replacing them with more bamboo. It's just wonderful. |
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I have two pails, just pails with tight-fitting lids, one in DS's bedroom and one in the bathroom. The bedroom is where I change him, so that one gets the wets and the bathroom is where I deal with poopy diapers, so that one gets the rinsed poopies and rinsed night diapers (I rinse those because they can get pretty strong, but that's with an older child). I dry pail, washing every 3 days or so, and don't worry about having air circulation. I don't get nasty smells set into the diapers at all. I might attribute that to the dryness here in CO, but I did the exact same thing when I lived in humid Wales.
We have a two-story house, too, but I don't usually change diapers away from the changing table. I just couldn't keep track of how many diapers I had where, etc, but I know that many people change in multiple locations.
One thing that I will say regarding smell is that I don't think that CDs smell nearly as bad as disposables. If you think about it, with disposables you've got the poop staying on the diapers, while with CDs, when I say rinsed poopies, I mean just that, little to no poop on the diapers themselves in the pail. I really do not smell my pails at all, while when I go to friends' houses I can often smell their disposbles even when the diapers are in a smell-reducing container in another room. I wouldn't set my pails open in the middle of the dinner table, mind you, but closed they'd be fine (other than obscuring sight lines . . . :-)). I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by how non-smelly CDs are. |
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Hello,
I have a Diaper Champ and it works ok, but if I was to do it again I would buy something else, like a simple pail with a lid. If you already have it, though, you can make it work. I would definitely line it with a fabric bag that you can wash with the diaper. The smell is very well contained, that is not a problem, but the pail is quite small when it comes to cloth diapers. When you get to 10-12 OS diapers (and I have bamboo, so they're not as thick and bulky as cotton) it's pretty much full. And the mechanism for dropping diapers in the pail is not great for cloth diapers. They barely fit in the top part, and when it comes close to wash time (every day in the beginning when we used 12-14 dipes a day, every second day now that we use 6-7 a day), we often have to open the diaper champ and push on the dirty diapers to make some room, which is not my idea of a good time. But the dipes don't spread evenly in the pail, so even though there may still be room inside, the top piece won't turn because diapers are blocking the new diaper from falling inside. Not sure if my explanation makes sens, hopefully you understand what I mean...
It does contain smell very well, though. On laundry day, when I open it, it really stinks of urine inside, but I let it air out a bit before I put the new fabric bag in and close it again and I have no problem. I wash it once in a while (although probably not as often as I should). The smell does not remain on the diapers, they come out of the wash nice and fresh.
If you don't want to splurge on an expensive liner bag, you can use a big pillowcase and sew a draw cord onto it, or we bought an inexpensive cotton sleeping bag stuff sack from an outdoor store and it works wonders. We have two for when one is in the wash. We use small wet bags for when we're out of the house (the kind used for kayaking, for instance, that are completely air tight and are very small when folded) and they are great at keeping the smell in, but I wouldn't use that for storing diapers for more than a few hours. When we forget ours in it, it does stink quite a bit, and I suppose that storing diapers in it on a regular basis would probably help smell set in. But that said, I'm not sure it's very different from the Diaper Champ and we have never had any problem even when we forgot a diaper in the wet bag for a day or two, so it may work just fine!
Hope that helps! And good luck... |
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We have a garbage pail with the little step so you don't have to touch the lid when opening it...works perfectly since you normally have yukky hands when you need to get into it!! 
A couple things we have learned...if you do buy a Bummis bag (we use one to transport dirty diapers in our diaper bag, as well as to and from daycare) don't put it in the dryer!! It may seem like a no-brainer but when you're exhausted and you just want it to be dry...you may be tempted! They start to leak after a while if you dry them (even at a low temp).
We use cloth wipes as well. They are fine to go in the same pail as the diapers, but you are right to keep the covers separate. We used to put ours in the pail and they started to get stinky.
Hope this helps...good luck and congrats on switching!! |
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