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April 2019 Moms
lyse01
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Product Spotlight: Diapers and Wipes
lyse01
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Because we will all need them.
Disposable Diapers: What brand do you use and why? What is cheapest? How do you get that crazy low price? What brands did not work? Is there other relevant info?
Disposable Wipes: what brand do you use and why? What don’t you like and why? How do you save $$?
Cloth Diapers: brands? Absorbency? Costs? Resources for learning and laundering? Ease of laundering?
Cloth wipes: purchase or make your own? Terry cloth or flannel or both?
Give us the pros and cons of what you have, or ask about what you want.
FTMs: when you look at diapers and wipes, what’s overwhelming or confusing? Ask away!
Want to discuss something else? Recommend it here, or second some recs by loving someone’s post (I’ll try to prioritize): https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12734953/product-spotlights-upcoming-or-requests
All product spotlights can be resurrected at any time for further discussion - type “Product Spotlight” into the search bar at the bottom of the page to find previous threads.
Disposable Diapers: What brand do you use and why? What is cheapest? How do you get that crazy low price? What brands did not work? Is there other relevant info?
Disposable Wipes: what brand do you use and why? What don’t you like and why? How do you save $$?
Cloth Diapers: brands? Absorbency? Costs? Resources for learning and laundering? Ease of laundering?
Cloth wipes: purchase or make your own? Terry cloth or flannel or both?
Give us the pros and cons of what you have, or ask about what you want.
FTMs: when you look at diapers and wipes, what’s overwhelming or confusing? Ask away!
Want to discuss something else? Recommend it here, or second some recs by loving someone’s post (I’ll try to prioritize): https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12734953/product-spotlights-upcoming-or-requests
All product spotlights can be resurrected at any time for further discussion - type “Product Spotlight” into the search bar at the bottom of the page to find previous threads.
Re: Product Spotlight: Diapers and Wipes
Disposable Wipes: I got a bunch of samples of Huggies travel packs - rubberized, refillable packages of wipes. I love the reusable aspect, but I prefer having Seventh Generation wipes - which are the right balance: thin but not flimsy, sturdy enough to wipe poop but not so thick you can’t feel what you’re doing, damp enough to clean but not sopping. And they don’t dry out too quickly. Walmart brand is too thick and wet. Target has 4-packs of Seventh Gen wipes, which cuts the cost a bit.
Cloth Diapers: we loooove Green Mountain Diapers workhorses (snapped) - easy for DH to understand since it looks like a disposable and doesn’t require Snappis or Boingos to secure, easy to pull out of the dryer and put away since there aren’t any pockets to stuff. I want to switch back for DD now that we’ve got better access to laundry again, and I want more fleece and wool (Disana brand) pants to keep the diapers from soaking through. We don’t love Gerber all in ones - very leaky. I also love Fluff Love University for learning, and Fluff Love BST and GMD Mama BST groups on Facebook for purchasing used.
Cloth wipes: flannel is good enough for us. Easy to make 6”x6” squares, easier to buy at like ~$0.65/each. Impossible to destroy.
Disposable Diapers: We used Honest for the first year or so because I was lazy but then I discovered something I want to share with you all. AMAZON WAREHOUSE DEALS. Whatever brand you end up using (we ended up settling on Seventh Generation for daytime and Pampers baby dry over night. I liked Seventh Generation because the weird diaper smell from a lot of diapers bugged me) search for them in Amazon Warehouse deals and you can get them hella cheap. The box might be damaged or returned but 1) The diapers are still in plastic bags and 2) your kid is going to pee and poop in them soooo save some money. Plus they're usually still prime so they're cheap!
Disposable Wipes: My favorite brand are the Amazon Elements Unscented (the blue pack). Plus - Subscribe and Save - you're going to be using them so if you get a bit backed up and have extra have no fear. Pampers were also OK. Honests are really nice but too pricy. I did NOT like Huggies or BJs brand.
Cloth Diapers: We're CDing this time so I'll follow for that - I've mostly purchased second hand Bum Genius pockets. Also maybe we can do another CD thread for us beginners sometime??
Cloth wipes: I love my disposable wipes too much to go this far I think.
I liked Huggies best. Tried Pampers cause it’s what the hospital sent us home with but they have this mesh in the bottom that I always felt turned poop into a bigger mess. We used some Luvs our neighbor gave us when they potty trained their last kid and they were okay but kinda thin imo. I never tried Honest or Seventh Generation, they always seemed much more expensive. Amazon has actually come out with their own brand called Mama Bear that I’m eager to try.
Wipes: Amazon Elements!!! The perfect balance of moistness/thickness/strength. I think we used the sensitive ones. Also unlike Pampers, the sensitive from Amazon weren’t more expensive for the same amount or you got less for the same amount of money. That always bugged me when I went to the store. There was always like 50+less in the sensitive box but it was the same price or more expensive then they other versions.
Also yes yes to open box deals on Amazon and subscribe and save. I have gotten some really awesome open box deals. The subscribe and save show up automatically, you get a discount, and you can easily change when you need to size up. Win win. I loved it.
prevously helloblueeyes
Me:32 DH:33 Married:04/2012 DD:07/2014
BFP 8/14/2018 #2 due 4/18/2019
prevously helloblueeyes
Me:32 DH:33 Married:04/2012 DD:07/2014
BFP 8/14/2018 #2 due 4/18/2019
Also another suggestion would be for any poopy diapers to just throw them in the trash outside. We initially used the disposable pail but the house would stink. I don’t think it matters how great a pail you get, it will inevitably stink up the house.
Disposable wipes: Pampers Sensitive. Again DS1 broke out with Huggies so we’ve just avoided them. We also use Target brand and they’ve been great.
Disposable Diapers: For sizes N-2 we use Pampers Swaddlers. We tried Huggies and she peed out of them. We will start out with Pampers this time and see what works for him. Once we hit size 3, we switch to Target brand during the day but stay with Pampers Overnights for bedtime. We found we didn't have to change her overnight once we made that switch. Cheapest will be the off brand (like Target) but I highly recommend either Amazon or Target. I combine the debit redcard, cartwheel deals and manufacturer coupons and you can usually get good deals, I will also wait until it's a deal like spend $100 and get a $25 gift card, save the gift cards and eventually use them on one of those deals and I don't have to spend any money out of our pocket.
Disposable Wipes: what brand do you use and why? I actually prefer thin wipes as I feel like it cleans out the crevices better. We stick with the unscented Target brand (I think it's the blue box). You're wiping your kids' dirty, stinky butt with them. I wouldn't spend much money. You can usually include wipes with the Target deals.
We purchased some used Bum Genius and received a bunch of hand me downs from my sister. I will be getting them stripped soon. I love that I spend like $50 total on diapers!
Disposable Wipes: Costco's Kirkland wipes, hands down. Cheap and effective.
Cloth Diapers: We used generic pocket diapers with bamboo inserts. They were pretty simple to wash since the inserts came out on their own in the washing machine. And being able to separate the waterproof shell (line dry) from the absorbent insert (tumble dry) cut down on drying time. We also invested in disposable/flushable liners after LO started solids to make poop clean up even easier.
Cloth wipes: purchase or make your own? Never used cloth wipes.
We use target brand. Work great and don't irritate my boy's sensitive skin.
Disposable wipes:
Costco store brand fragrance free.
Cloth diapers:
Generic pocket diapers with bamboo inserts. We used these for a year then stopped because no matter what we tried they stunk! We seriously tried everything short of buying a top loading washer.
Cloth wipes:
We used cloth wipes for a while and found them to be a total pain, both using them and laundry/putting them away.
Our plan this time around is to use disposable diapers and wipes.
Disposable Wipes: happy with pampers sensitive they get a decent rating from EWG and haven’t had any sensitivities...
Cloth etc I can’t comment on as I have no experience.... I just can’t do more laundry!
Disposable Diapers: I usually get the cheap parents house at Walmart or up and up brand. We don’t use that many.
Disposable Wipes: my favorite were the ones the hospital gave us. Haven’t found any like them. Might try Costco next.
Cloth Diapers: we have a big stash from dd. Blend of styles. I really like the flip hybrid which are a cover as they are reusable of baby didn’t over pee if you replace the liner. Helps for cloth out and about. We also do all in one and pocket because they were cheap and at night we do a fitted with a cover because it absorbs way more. They stink though so I need to deep clean everything before baby comes. I chose cloth because our water/electricity ate included in our rent and therefore it didn’t add to any costs to wash (outside of detergent.) so with kid one we spent probably close to $700 on the diapers but with kid 2 we will probably spend maybe $100 to get a few boy diapers to replace the extra girly ones and a few just because the others wear out over time. I tend to buy used or gently used because it’s sooo much cheaper than new.
Cloth wipes: we make them. I also sew diaper liners. We have a bug so I don’t think we need more for this baby.
Hubs likes the savings in cloth diapering. I like that and that I’m not contributing as much to landfill. I also use mama cloth (cloth pads) and need to get some post partum ones sorted out. I tend to get terrible infected hairs or pimples when I use disposable for very long so I will probably only use the ones the hospital gives me and then switch to cloth because it is so much more comfortable.
With cloth the biggest thing for hubs was having the diapers fully prepped for wearing. Because he struggled to decide what went with what and we get leaks if he builds the diaper. But that’s fine by me and helps keep the diapering area neater. He was super willing to change diapers once I started pre-stuffing them.
Disposable Diapers: What brand do you use and why? What is cheapest? How do you get that crazy low price? What brands did not work? Is there other relevant info?
I used Pampers Swaddlers with both babies. I had too many blowouts with Huggies and Luvs leaked a lot. I tried a generic store brand once and DD had a horrible reaction to it
My sister loved the Sams Club brand with her son.
Disposable Wipes: what brand do you use and why? What don’t you like and why? How do you save $$?
Pampers sensitive just because of my kids sensitive skin. I never liked Huggies wipes and generic brands seemed to dry out fast.
Auto ship on amazon prime is the way to go for the best price on wipes. Open box or auto ship on prime for diapers. Sometimes Target has deals if you buy more than one box of diapers then you get anywhere from $20-$50 gift card
Give us the pros and cons of what you have, or ask about what you want.
We use huggies natural care, and switched to the tougher one and done kind later.
We buy from target when u get the gift card for 2+ boxes, plus cartwheel coupons.
Wipes: huggies! We buy cases of them from kroger's during dollar days.