BTDT Moms - Changing table/station

ReggieBear · January 2016

Did you put a changing table in both rooms? Any advice would be great! Thanks!

smushi · January 2016

We had one changing station where we keep clothes/diapers/wipes everything baby stored, and then we'd just move the diaper changing pad around if needed (I had one of those Summer Infant ones). Our diaper changing station was a closet we rehabbed that is right next to the washer/dryer. So handy.

ETA you could probably do just as well with a few changing pads, and get those little Ikea storage cubes for diapers/wipes/essentials in a spot in the rooms you frequent most. Now that our DS is bigger, we have those in our living room that neatly contains the necessities.

skruhmin · January 2016

Just one in the nursery. A dresser covered to a changing table. But we do have a canvas bin with diapers and wipes as a portable station for a different level since we have a two story house.

ehowa499 · January 2016

We just had 1; dresser with a changing pad on top in the baby's room. I kept a couple of diapers and wipes in my bedroom for nighttime changes. We have a 3 bedroom ranch and just went to the baby's room for diaper changes. If we had a larger or multi level home it may have been different!

ReggieBear · January 2016

Awesome! Thank you so much - we will keep the one in D#1's room and have a portable changing kit to move around the house! Just what I needed to know! Thanks!

RoMama113 · January 2016

We just had one in the nursery, a dresser with a changing pad on top. After a month or two, I also started changing DS in the living room too, but didn't use a pad. At first I'd use a blanket under him, but after he turned into a wiggle worm and got bigger, I just change him on the floor. We keep a basket of diapers, wipes, and bottom cream in the living room in addition to the stash in the nursery. Honestly, I didn't use the changing pad at all after he was about 6 months old and I put it away; the floor was safer and easier to change my bucking bronco

jess9802 · January 2016

In our last house we always changed DS in the nursery. In our new house we will have a changing station in the laundry room and one in the nursery upstairs. I don't like changing baby on the floor and my mom can't physically do it. I like having a dedicated area for changing and minimizing the risk of accidents, leaks, etc.

ceds07 · January 2016

DD is done with diapers but I only had the one changing station. It was always my preference to just go upstairs versus keep a second station set up.

jenniferamcooper · January 2016

We live in a small space so we always changes in the nursery - a tallish dresser 4 drawer with a keekaroo peanut changer on top.
If you're having multiple kids and/or you hate laundry seriously consider investing in a keekaroo changer. They're a soft rubberized material that's water proof. Pee/poop spills are easily cleaned up with a Lysol wipe. I can't tell you how much bodily fluids we just wiped off the thing instead of having to wash a change pad cover. They are heavy though so they'd work best in homes where you're going to change your LO in the same area.

I may have mentioned this already but if you're a tall family seriously consider using a dresser/change pad combo or putting your change table on risers. I get killer backaches when I use change tables at my friend's place. Basically your ideal ergo height put your arms by your side and then lift your lower arms up so that they're parallel to the floor. The elbow height is your ideal surface height. If your SO is a lot taller than you then just get one that works for you

ClaireBear90 · January 2016

I have a changing table in the nursery, which is only about four feet away from our room. The bedrooms are small, so there's no way I'd be squeezing another piece of furniture into our room.

I do try to keep diapers/wipes handy on both floors of our house during the first several months so that if I'm downstairs I don't have to go upstairs to change a diaper, etc.

And we actually didn't buy the changing table until DD was maybe a year old... It's hard to remember. Initially we just pulled out a changing pad and changed her wherever we were.

PinkSunglasses16 · January 2016

We have a 2 story home. Our bedrooms are on the 2nd floor and we have a changing table that was great at night but quickly and i mean like 2-3 days after being home from hospital realized i needed to keep a basket of diapers, wipes and cream on the 1st floor for during the day. My vagina did not appreciate all the stair climbing. I just threw down a receiving blanket to change on.

blueeyedrose86 · January 2016

We just skipped it altogether and changed her on a blanket on the floor. We kept everything in a basket and just used the floor. It was super convenient and I didn't have to waste the money or space on a changing table.

amaniupendo · January 2016

We had a three story house. We had a dresser with a pad on it in the nursery on second floor. Would use bed in our room. Floor or pack and play downstairs. Definitely a place where you can easily save money.

J234 · January 2016

I second the idea of a changing basket on every level of your house that you visit... for us, that's three floors (Our house is small, like a condo.) I plan to put a roll of garbage bags in the baskets that are up and down stairs since we probably won't be doing a diaper genie or anything. We always put the diapers in the kitchen garbage, with a lid and smell filter system since it gets emptied so frequently.

Not only that, I try to have a safe place to put the baby down on every level... little activity seat/portable swing/pack n play/etc.

jenniferamcooper · January 2016

@J234 a friend of mine used dog poop bags haha. We cloth diaper so we didn't try it but I thought it was pretty genius, they fit so tiny in her dollar tree diaper caddy!

J234 · January 2016

jenniferamcooper said:

@J234 a friend of mine used dog poop bags haha. We cloth diaper so we didn't try it but I thought it was pretty genius, they fit so tiny in her dollar tree diaper caddy!

Yes! Perfect. They sell them for diapers too.. the Arm & Hammer ones? Munchkin? Whatever... kid and dog share as needed. I keep a roll in my diaper bag, in my car, on the dog's leash... lol. That and my mini-wet bag are essentials!

We also have a cloth stash too.

Weekend warriors, because daycare doesn't do cloth.

jenniferamcooper · January 2016

@J234 I'll have to remember poop bags with new baby, we were never without a wet bag last time but sometimes I had to cram stuff in when there were diapers, and outfits for baby and me in there (fingers crossed for no reflux), I always have a stash in my coat pockets!

I wonder the price comparison of baby vs dog bags. I feel like the giant Costco box my mom buys my dog each Christmas must be cheaper.

Melodyags · January 2016

I had 1 with my 1st up in nursery. By 2nd and 3rd had 2 1 in nursery and 1 in downstairs laundry room so didn't have to keep going up and down the steps. It was much better that way. This time I'm back with 1 and hoping to get a 2nd.

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