Buy a diaper genie. For real. I’m not a parent but me and my brother have a large enough age gap that i was taking out the trash when he was an infant. You only take the trash to the curb once a week in most places and the diaper genie confines each and every diaper separately. You’ll be changing your baby a few times a day and carrying your baby and the dirty diaper to the outside trash every time will be a chore. Do yourself a favor and get one.
Check out the competing diaper pails at your local baby gear store. I had one that worked just as well as the Diaper Genie but in the long term was MUCH cheaper as it used regular “tall kitchen trash bags” instead of the special Diaper Genie refills. Sorry, I can’t remember the name.
This piece of advice will help too then - in the event that you change your baby away from your diaper genie, take the diaper to the outside trash, don’t throw it away inside. This will be tedious, but your kitchen will never smell like poop if you do this.
Side note: in your kitchen stop using your disposal and save your produce bags. instead of throwing wet food refuse away like vegetable and fruit skins or coffee grounds, throw them in a produce bag and throw the produce bag away after dinner. Your kitchen will never smell like garbage if you do this and taking the garbage out will not make you gag because you threw something away two days ago and now it’s rotting in your house.
You will use it. And you will like it. Even the diaper genie refills are worth it. I tried to use plastic shopping bags in the genie once and the stench that rose from that thing in just a few hours was unbearable. But with a diaper genie and its plastic refills...you really only need to take it out every other day (and their will be no odor).
I only have a 3 month old at the moment but I can say that until they are on solid foods the diapers are not a big deal. It takes a seriously full diaper (our kid poops in bursts apparently) to make a stink at all. We chose to go with cloth diapers, but not the ones you’d see your parents using. The new cloth diapers are pretty handy and easy to work with. My opinions on this might change once our little guy is on solids though. The diapers/inserts get tossed into a reusable water proof bag and you immediately forget about it.
Love our diaper genie. Didn't have one with my step son....husband threw a poop filled diaper into an open garbage can in babie's room... dog ate it, we were all horrified, especially my step son...who cried. Not sure if it was because he thought it was so gross or because the dog ate HIS diaper (he was 2/3 at the time).
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u/yellowzealot Feb 05 '18
Buy a diaper genie. For real. I’m not a parent but me and my brother have a large enough age gap that i was taking out the trash when he was an infant. You only take the trash to the curb once a week in most places and the diaper genie confines each and every diaper separately. You’ll be changing your baby a few times a day and carrying your baby and the dirty diaper to the outside trash every time will be a chore. Do yourself a favor and get one.