Comments on: Do we really need fancy diaper pails?

By: Tacha

Tacha — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:07:48 +0000

My mom just put them in the bathroom trash, then take it out when it was full. I’m thinking of just putting a small trash can with a lid next to my changing table; then, after I take out the trash, just spray it with Lysol before putting in a new bag. I do this with the kitchen trash can, and it really helps the odor; so I hope it helps with the baby’s.

By: michelle

michelle — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:29:33 +0000

I have never really had any of those fancy diaper pails. We cloth diaper and I just use a little plain white garbage can with a lid. I got it at Walmart when my son was born for like $5. The lid has the lever so it pops open and the pail has two inner handles for what I assume is to keep the garbage bag in place. I just fill it with diapers, no liner. I wash my dipes every 2–3 days and then just wash out the pail with hot water and some dish soap. It takes only minutes, smells fresh, and I never have to hurry out in the pouring rain, or worse yet, –50F weather (we live in Alaksa) to throw out a dipe and still have a stinky pail

By: Rachael

Rachael — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:31:25 +0000

We used the Champ until introducing solid food. Now, pee diapers go in kitchen trash. Poo diapers go in the plastic bag the newspaper comes in (daily paper) and goes outside or in kitchen trash. To cut down on the smell, we also dump the contents into the toilet when practical. This is key!!

When the Champ started to smell, we realized that it was probably an uphill battle to keep the smell down on — essentially — a bucket full of pee and poop. After a while, even the pee diapers have a rank aroma.

By: Janda

Janda — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:09:14 +0000

I have been using just little bags and taking the smellies out, but when we moved into the 3rd floor appartment, I took the plunge and got the Tommee Tippee Sangenic. It wasn’t too expensive, but granted you have to get the bags that costs a bit…
No smells! Great!
We did choose to put a seperate plastic bag in the bin to keep the sausage together so we don’t have to keep pulling it back out once the bin is full.
We will be using some of our cloth diapers for number two, but this bin is one of my favourite things in the nursery.

By: kyle

kyle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:12:12 +0000

We never got a fancy diaper pail — rather just use a trashcan. Wet and breastfed poopy diapers are fine in there, but my two year old’s poopy diapers go in a little plastic bag and straight outside! We live in an urban setting in a one level home, so it works just fine for us! The poopy diapers usually go on to the porch and go into the trash can outside when I take out the recycling each day. I had a hard time with the cost of a fancy diaper pail and after two years and two kids, our little plan works great!

By: bek

bek — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:56:04 +0000

I registered for a diaper genie. It worked o.k. for the first couple weeks. I didn’t like having to buy the expensive lining though. When my son’s diapers started to get more messy, I rather used a regular trash bag and brought it out to the dumpster right away. It’s hard to squeeze a full poopy diaper into the pail without getting the hands dirty.
Hubby insisted on getting a regular little trash can with a lid that can be opened by foot. That is working great for us now!
The diaper genie moved to grandma, since she is only using it occasionally.

By: Lara

Lara — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:34:52 +0000

We use cloth nappies (diapers), so we use a standard bucket for them. If there is poo, it gets dumped in the toilet straight away, and I wash ever other day.

No more landfill!

By: Jentry

Jentry — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:11:52 +0000

Oh, I have to say that the heat lamp totally rocks! We put Amelia down on the changing table, turn it on, and she is pretty calm while we are changing her. I don’t know of a time (yet) that she has cried while changing her diaper. I’m sure if we didn’t have it, we wouldn’t miss it either (or if we lived in Texas, where I’m originally from, we wouldn’t need it), but I got it on Amazon for about 20 Euro cheaper in the store, which is another reason we got it.

So far, for us, the bad investment is pants. I don’t like putting her in pants because it is annoying to always take them off and put them back on for changing…I absolutely LOVE the the footed onesies (or whatever their called). Those things rock. Those and gowns. Great investments.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:30:54 +0000

We use the little diaper sausage maker (I forget the brand off the top of my head), and it works well so far. I ended up sticking it under the changing table, which is behind a closed door. The smell hasn’t been an issue unless we were sharing her room (while visitors were here), and our air matress was next to the bin — a little too close for comfort!

With the cloth, we have left the diaper pale on the balcony, and the poop gets scooped off before they go in there. The smell from the cloth is stronger than from the sausage maker.

Our useless baby investments were pacifiers (she refused). We were thinking of buying a heat lamp but never got around to it. Since we have gone 13 months without it, I’d say it would have been a wasted investment.

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:18:17 +0000

@naomi & jen: Same with us. Oliver slept in our bed too. We took the side off the crib and use it as a toddler bed now, he takes his naps in it, but still sleeps with us most nights.

@maria: I think the Genie might be better than the Champ at containing odors, since each diaper gets sealed up separately. But there were some reviewers at Amazon that complained about odors from it as well. Might depend on how often you empty the trash or other differences.