Diapers help please!
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Anonymous
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With first DC we wanted to use eco friendly diapers and used Bambo Nature. By the time this baby came they changed the ‘formula’ on those and they don’t fit as well. We have started to use Seventh Generation but now I keep smelling pee on baby (probably due to them being breathable). I will admit that I have an over sensitive sense of smell.
At the pediatrician they gave us a Pampers diaper to use and it had a strong smell of baby powder, which I find very unpleasant. Here are my questions: 1. Do all ‘mainstream’ brands have a fragrance? 2. Those that do not, do they tend to allow the pee smell to escape? For example the Target brand states that it has a breatheable top layer... 3. Are some brands better than others for a 50 percentile boy with a long torso and averaged sized legs? 4. Are Costco or Amazon still the best places to buy diapers? Thank you so much In advance ! |
Anonymous
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Amazon is the cheapest place to buy diapers. It was almost half the Costco sale price. I get Luvs very cheaply there.
Some do smell like piss. Huggies is a bad offender. I NEVER smell dd's pee other than when she's wearing Huggies, not even in cloth diapers. I've heard other moms complain about the Huggies smell too. I have a great sense of smell, but people were constantly telling me to change DD even though she hadn't peed or barely peed due to the smell. I don't notice a fragrance smell with Pampers or Luvs. |
Anonymous
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How old is your baby and how big is he?
We always used Pampers swaddlers (then cruisers) and Honest diapers on our DS. I actually like the smell of Pampers, but understand it's not the most eco friendly. I never liked Target or Costco diapers, they felt scratchy to me. Pampers and Honest never worked for our chunky DD so we used Huggies for her. I'm generally very eco-conscious in the products I choose and our lifestyle in general, but I need disposable diapers that work more than I need something eco-conscious. Have you thought about cloth diapering? |
Anonymous
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OP here. Baby is 2 months old and 12 lbs 8 oz so right in the middle. I have thought of cloth but they aren’t for us, and daycare won’t allow them when we start in a few months...
Also we have tried Honest with our first kid and they smelled too. Have then changed them in the last two years? |
Anonymous
| My sister has a severe fragrance allergy, and she's used Target diapers exclusively with both her kids. There are a few other eco-friendly brands that don't have fragrances, but she found that they were much more expensive and didn't work as well. |
Anonymous
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There's a brand I used for travel once that was made of corn products, not plastic - had no scent. And worked fine, but they're not soft at all and sometimes leaked overnight because they just aren't as absorbant as the chemical laden ones (we typically cloth diapered, both kids in full time daycare centers, they just needed a little education at the beginning and then it was NBD)
Oh - Nature Babycare - that's the brand. https://www.target.com/p/eco-by-naty-diapers-jumbo-pack-select-size/-/A-51073207#lnk=sametab Earth's Best may also be corn based. |
Anonymous
Personally I'm anti-Honest because they're like the Columbia House of diapers. If you don't return your "free" sample kit next thing you know $80 of diapers on your doorstep. |
Anonymous
| I'm very sensitive to smells and I don't have either of the issues you described with Honest diapers--but you can pick up a pack at Target and try them. |
Anonymous
| I used earth's best because I hated the scented diapers. They worked fine, my kid is super skinny and tall. |
Anonymous
| part of the reason we (primarily) used cloth is because my husband and i both hated the "diaper" smell that most diaper brands have. when we did use disposable diapers, we ended up getting the cheapie drugstore brands - cvs, walgreens - because we found them the least gross smelling. |
Anonymous
| I've always been really happy with Honest. You do need to be careful when setting up the bundle but once you do that it is super convenient. You can change the ship date at any time if you still have a lot left. And the prints are super cute. |
Anonymous
| OP here again. Thank you all! I may try Honest again. Two years ago they smelled like pee to me.... |
Anonymous
OP, try the Target ones first. They are a lot cheaper and I've never noticed a smell with them. They definitely do not have the Pampers smell. |
Anonymous
OP here again. These don’t smell like pee? I got worried when I saw the “breathable top layer” on the package.... |
Anonymous
| I liked Costco's Kirkland diapers a lot. Not the cheapest, but no scent (which I couldn't stand), rarely had leaks (unlike the more natural/eco friendly options), and didn't irritate my diaper rash prone kid. |