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June 2012 Moms
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Diaper Pails
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Whaddya think? Diaper Genie? Regular old garbage bin with a good seal on the lid? What are you going with? 2X moms, what's your 2 cents?
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Re: Diaper Pails
FTM, but we're using a small white metal trash can with pedal that dh had from before we were married. It's so tiny it's completely useless for real trash, so I've always appeased him by using it for recycling (the milk jug takes up the entire thing...).
It's actually his job tonight to clean it out for the nursery. We're starting off disposable, so we'll probably get a day's worth of diapers in there before tossing the bag-hopefully we won't smell them too much. When we move to cloth, we'll just put some water in the pail on the inside and toss the fabric liners in it until I'm ready to wash them. Apparently this is what a friend does and she says it works really well.
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We really like our Arm & Hammer Diaper Pail.
We used a small regular trash can with a tight lid/foot pedal. We used some grocery bags and the little diaper bags to wrap up icky ones and just put them directly outside.
We emptied the whole thing every day or every other day.
We used a diaper genie with DS and it wasn't that great.
I haven't decided what we'll do this time. Probably just put a poopy diaper in a grocery bag, tie it and call in done in the regular garbage. We'll just toss wet diapers in the garbage.
Diaper Genie all the way. Remember you're going to be holding baby's legs with one hand and a dirty diaper with the other, so having a foot pedel to open the top of the diaper genie helps significantly. Those first few months of breastfeeding mean that diapers are pretty much runny poop. You don't want to be fussing with the lid of a garbage pail while trying to stop poop from running down your hands and holding onto a baby at the same time; all while being sleep deprived!
We went with a Diaper Genie, but probably should have gone with the Diaper Champ. It would have been much less expensive to use regular garbage bags. We've actually switched to using the Arm & Hammer bags in the Diaper Genie, because it costs a little less. They fit pretty well.
I will cloth diaper for the most part, but come the weekend when I have to work, DH will use disposables. The dirty ones go in a tiny trash bag and walked to the outside trash can.
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