Diaper pail worth it?

How many of you bought or were gifted a diaper pail? Do you recommend it, or will a regular garbage work just as fine? Also trying to minimize space within the room. Let me know your thoughts, please and thank you! :)

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With a regular garbage pail you’ll have to throw out the trash every day.

Oh booo 👎 Thanks for the feedback!

Love my diaper pails, I have 1 in the nursery and 1 on the main floor

Diaper genies are a God send. Definitely worth it, never smells like poop or pee.

Diaper genie definitely worth it, at the very least for the poop diapers. Because they will definitely make the whole room smell like shit if you throw it in the regular garbage lol.

Don’t have a diaper pail have a small trash can and throw out the bag when it’s full I feel like it does the same job. It does smell a little but I have that febreeze small space scent and it helps with the smells and lasts a long time

I like mine

^So far seems like a great investment. Here I thought I'd get mixed reviews.

I got a regular trash can and put an odor absorber at the bottom as well as the scented bags. We only empty it once a week and have never had any issues with smell.
(Ours is a stainless steel foot pedal trash can with a lid)
I looked into the diaper genies and stuff and when I put one on my registry, I kid you not, 5 moms texted me to tell me it was a waste of money in their experience. They’re expensive and ineffective apparently 🤷🏻‍♀️

Diaper genie/pail for sure. It helps hide the smell and won’t need to change it all the time like regular trash. Try target 🎯 or Walmart!

As newborns/younger babies before they eat any "solids", the poo is messy with some smell, but smell isn't too bad. As they start having things besides breatmilk or formula, like purees or solods, the poo starts to stink more and more as they get older. So you could delay a little bit if you wanted to, but I'm still 100% in favor.

Dekor diaper pail. It’s gotten me through my two little ones.

As a woman who is trying to lose weight after pregnancy, I will just throw my diapers in the outside garbage can every time

I find diaper genies a waste of money. You are constantly buying the special bags and everything. I bought a garbage bin with a lid that closed. In the bottom of the garbage bin we put a cotton ball with a few drops of peppermint oil on it to mask the smell of pee and poop and that was so great. We never had issues with it smelling of pee or poop

This is an amazing life hack! Love it!!

Loving the feedback thus far! 💪

I don't think they are, we just throw diapers in the kitchen garbage

I recommend it. When she was younger, I had the kind with special bags. So that’s an extra expense. But now I have a dekor and it uses regular trash bags. It’s necessary if you don’t want to take out the trash every day and it’s small, but effective.

We just got one after just having a little trashcan for over a year. My dad complained for months and I told him I wasn’t buying one so he bought one. It has an air freshener in it and everything and it still stinks 😂

I have a diaper pail downstairs and a regular trash can upstairs. For my newborn breastfed baby, I don’t notice a difference in smell between the two. My friends who have an older baby said that it didnt make a huge difference to have a diaper pail until they start on solids and then you definitely want the diaper pail because the poop really starts to smell at that point.

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Just out of curiosity, why do parents love zipper onesies?

Don’t get me wrong, I tried zipper ones it’s easy to zip in and out when putting it on the first time and taking it out, but I find it difficult when changing diapers especially when baby is asleep.

I prefer those kimono style buttons where it’s easy to button or too down button with crotch snaps.

Is everyone thinking the same or different? Lol

At this point I’m not enjoying motherhood

My 22 month old is horrendous at the moment🫣 biting, hitting, pushing, pulling and shoving not only adults but children he also wants what other children have and will just snatch it away from them.

We repeat ‘nice hands’ ‘be gentle’ ‘let’s share’ etc

But how do I make him understand what he’s doing isn’t very nice? At the end of the day I feel like I’ve just been saying his name all day and nothing else.

What can I do?

This might rattle some people

Ok, this might get a bit long, and a bit bumpy, so get comfy and buckle up.

So about a week or 2 ago, there was a post on here regarding sleepovers. Not letting their child go to them as you can't trust who'll be at the house etc.

Now, given recent incidents in nurseries and schools, plus my own experience back in the 90s, I am more concerned about sending my child to nursery and later school than I am to a friend's house for a sleep over.

The other day a man was jailed for abusing children at the nursery he worked at. A woman has been arrested for sleeping with an underage boy and then getting pregnant by a different underage boy while on bail for the first offence.

Young girls and boys get sexually harassed and bullied when at school, not all of them. But more than you think. And not just by other kids, but by adults who we as parents are trusting to look after our kids.

A sleepover, is a more controlled environment, with only a handful of people coming into contact with your child. A school, a club etc there can be 100s of people coming into contact with your child.

I was targeted at 7 years old by the owner of a prominent private school. Thankfully, I wasn't SA'd. In year 5 of primary school, I started to develop early, I was harassed by the boys and teachers made remarks about how my uniform didn't fit right, always "adjusting it" around my chest and legs.

Years 7-9 of secondary school were hell. But it was all under the guise of "we're just messing around". A teacher twanging my exposed bra strap (none uniform day) is not "messing around".

Boys pinning me down trying to rip open my shirt to see my breasts.

I fear for my daughter. I hope she takes after my father's family, flat chested.

We need to educate all our children, what is acceptable behaviour. And to come to us, as their parents should ANYTHING happen.

Dummy

My baby has had a dummy since about 2 weeks old (now 5 months) and over the course of the last month we weaned her off it during the day only for naps and night (which was fine) and then 5 days took it completely away during the day.

The first day no dummy was fine, the second bit rougher. But now it feels impossible she just moans and cries all the time it takes ages for her to go down to sleep (she’s always been an amazing sleeper)

I thought it was meant to get better as time went on not worse. I’m at my wits end I dunno what to do.

Currently typing this as she screams uncontrollably in the car and I cry with her cos I can’t do anything.

Help

My LO every feed. Drs don’t seem to think it’s a problem the whole Muslim cloth gets soaked so much I’m using towels now. I’ve tried size O teats he gets really frustrated and still spills it out :(

How to help my husband understand why I'd like to breastfeed

My husband is very supportive, but he is also someone who wants to make things as easy and as stress free as possible.

With our first child, I tried to breastfeed, but due to my own medical issues postpartum, baby and I were separated a lot and my milk dried up so quickly. We introduced formula around 2 weeks PP, and I tried pumping as much as I could, but it just lead to nothing. It was heartbreaking. It definitely ruined a lot of those early weeks for me, I was wrecked with guilt and sadness. I cried every day and felt like such a failure.

Now my son is a healthy, happy 2 year old and I eventually came to terms with formula feeding him. He was quite content with the first formula we tried, never had feeding or gas issues etc, so it felt like a much easier option.

Obviously my husband witnessed all of this and now we're expecting our second baby, he sort of assumed we'd just go straight to formula.

I told him pretty early that I'd like to try breastfeeding again, and although I won't be putting so much pressure on myself this time, I've also done more research and I'm more prepared for the hard times that might come up in the early days/weeks, and I'm trying to prepare for any complications.

He's very supportive and says it's totally up to me and hasn't tried to sway me either way, but I do get a feeling the moment things get difficult PP he will automatically be buying formula. And he won't mean it in a bad way, he'll just be trying to make things easier for me and take off the pressure. He won't understand that it's unhelpful.

His thinking is that as long as baby is fed that's all that matters, and I agree mostly! But I also understand how beneficial breastfeeding can be and want to give it all my effort if I'm able!

So I guess I'm asking, are there any good resources I could send him to read? Preferably nothing too long/wordy, but something that explains the benefits and how to best support me during this time too? (Also something preferably from the UK as I know guidance can differ depending on country)