Kind of a silly question, but need advice from those of you with outside babies
I'm trying to get DH to come around to the fact that while LO is sleeping in our room (which I'd like to do for a minimum of 3 months), we'll want to change her in our room during middle of the night feedings, rather then trek to her room to use the changing table. So for those of you who do that, do you have a second diaper pail? We bought a Diaper Dekor for the nursery -- do I need another one? Or do I just hang a grocery bag on the doornob for middle of the night use and then toss the dirty diapers in the Diaper Dekor in the morning? TIA...
Re: diaper change logistics question from an almost-mom
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We also toss them on the floor until morning. She doesn't sleep with us regularly, but it's not a big deal to throw them out when you wake up. But if she's sleeping in your room every night why not just move the diaper pail?
This exactly. Most times I don't even need to get out of bed
We've done a little bit of a combination of what other pp's have said....1) We moved the diaper pail to our room. We don't really change her in her room at all. 2) If it's really late and I'm particularly lazy, i'll toss them in the floor and put in the diaper pail in the morning.
I like the pp's idea of using a bag to put them in until morning as well. I just don't see how buying two diaper pails and two sets of bags, etc can be cost effective. Spend that money on something else!!
This.
We would walk all the way to her room to change her at first, but that got old REAL quick! Plus I found that because it's colder and brighter in there it would wake her up more and she had a harder time falling back to sleep.
Now I change her in the PNP changing area thing, and just leave a pile there and throw them out in the morning. We have dogs so there's no way we could leave them on the floor. They would be eaten by morning.
Well, I'm guessing this might be affected by if you BF or FF. We FF, so we have to get up to get his bottle in the middle of the night anyway. So, I leave our room so DH can stay asleep. I found out right away when we got home that the PNP changing table was too low for me because I had postpartum back pain.So, we always change LO in his room.