ILX Parenting 5: I'm a big kid now

I guess you can use that thing for cloth diapers, too.

I have to say we have the Dekor thing but wound up just switching to regular garbage bags because the refills were so pricey, and I notice no difference in "odor control" or whatever. As soon as there's a poo diaper we take it to the garbage chute anyway.

Sleek, contemporary design holds up to 60 diapers fucking gross imo, that's like a week's worth of diapers, what kind of disgusting savages etc etc

If I was going to choose a diaper disposal system again, I'd go the How's Life route. Our Tommy Tippee Sangenic bin seemed cheap but we must have spent well over £100 on refill cartridges in the first nine months, and it'd be more if I wasn't constantly hunting down discounted packs.

Be wary of any product purporting to be a "system"

(XP) And great news, Joygoat, hope the next few weeks go as smoothly as possible for you.

We definitely don't pack that thing full of 60 dirty diapers. The way the refills are designed, you can seal off as many (well up to 60 I guess) or as few as you want and start fresh, so we basically take out diapers every time we take out the trash or whenever there is a particularly rough one.

I have read that people have good success with a metal step can with a lid (those Simple Human ones) and just regular trash bags, too, as far as keeping smell in and not getting trapped in a branded refill scam.

we do cloth diapers and have a kitchen-size trash bin with an easy-flip kind of lid, and we have this washable waterproof pail liner thing

we wash diapers every three or four days. Doesn't really smell unless it is super full and we know we need to wash them then

Btw good luck joygoat!

Taking a poopy diaper out to the outside trash every time would not be practical for us (picture a pile of frozen poop diapers piled up outside the back door waiting for someone to have time to shovel the back steps and the walkway to the alley where the trash cans are) but also in a pinch at other people's houses, we've just tied up poopy diapers in plastic grocery bags and they've been okay until we could properly take the trash out.

yeah I remember now the refills had that thing where you cut the bag and tie it off. Another thing I like about using trashbags instead is that we get the drawstring bags, so even easier to tie off.

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So, how was your morning?

I have no idea how much the refills are on our diaper thing. But it doesn't seem like we buy them that often.

lol tracer, +1000

My kid tried to give himself a haircut before school today. Said that this one chunk of hair wasn't doing what he wanted it to, so he chopped it off. This is like a week after I took him for a $20 trim at Hair Cuttery. So he's got all this beautiful 5-7" long hair and then a 1" plug right in front of his face.

I'm coming at this not only as a parent, but as someone who hasn't had hair in 15 years. Are we basically going to have to get it all shaved off?

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/chopchop_zps34043be8.png

xps: and lol at tracer. Yeah, I have a bad habit of doing that. "Why don't you go down and do the dishes?", etc. It really makes it sound like he has options when I intend it to be a (kind, gentle) order.

or, as the mom of some friends of mine said once, "tell, don't ask" which i thought was kind of rough until i had kids of my own. she sweetened that with her other golden rule which was "say no as little as possible"

"Are you ready to go to school?"
"NOOOOO! NO SCHOOL!"
"We're going to school."

omg how's life

that is amazing

one time i did the same thing and basically gave myself a bald spot on the top of my head

i wore a hat to school the next day and when my teacher told me to take it off i somehow managed to take him/her aside and "admit" that i had slept with gum in my hair (i hadn't) and had to chop off part of my hair (which i had done) and i was embarrassed, so could i wear the hat? it worked!

I cut my bangs the night before my eight grade school picture so that is memorialized forever before a faux bookshelf backdrop.

Thanks everyone.

I had a real freakout when I was looking at diaper things and realized they all had a system of refills you had to buy into and one of them only had vague "holds up to 72 diapers" and I have no idea if that's a lot or a little, or if that was for like one refill which seemed ridiculous and then I stepped back and remembered that my parents probably just tossed diapers into the woods behind our house and I turned out fine.

Kind of can't wait to actually have a baby around to give me something legit to freak out about instead of this weird limbo of waiting.

CONGRATS JOYGOAT

We finalized our adoption today so I'm pretty fucking stoked right now

Awesome!

fuck yeah adoption city :D

YAY!

CONGRATS DJP

i kind of teared up at your photo, no joke

This has made me really happy! You guys are amazing.

All the best and congrats, joy goat and djp. Fun times await! That's not sarcasm, by the way.

And we just use a biggish kitchen bin with a swinging lid to dump the disposable, compost able nappies we use in. If we empty it every 1 or 2 days there's no smell problem. Nice and cheap, which is good, because the compostaqble nappies are not.

why is my stupid kid always losing sweaters

like she is literally incapable of owning a sweater/sweatshirt for more than a month

Feel the same way about belts.

"where's your sweater?"
"I dunno"
"Did you leave it at school?"
"I dunno"
"Did you wear it to school?"
"I dunno"
"Do you remember when you wore it last?"
"I dunno"

next time I'm just gonna send you to school in a potato sack. DON'T LOSE YOUR SACK.

Lately K wakes up in a bad mood every day, don't know what's up with it - we're pretty consistent about bedtime and reasonable amounts of sleep. I've taken to just leaving the room until she decides to chill the fuck out.

DJP and joygoat, your updates make me very happy. I still think about adoption sometimes, although I am leaving it pretty damn late and am single and a graduate student and and and

xp yea! J has had bouts of that. wakes up SO fucking upset, it's like i go in there and he just starts screaming. sometimes i'll try to lay him back down and pat his back for a while and that can work, but other times he just flips out even more when i do that. reading stories sometimes helps. otherwise though yea i'll just leave him to calm down on his own for a few minutes

for all the tired moms:
http://the-toast.net/2014/10/20/women-trying-sleep-unsuccessfully-western-art-history/

The next panel in the comic...

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/107104/1/Judith-Beheading-Holofernes,-C.1648-54.jpg

We made a girl. Nora arrived at 5:47am this morning, weighing 7lbs 4.

Hey! Congratulations!!!

Speaking of birthdays, Ivy is one today! Amazing.

congratulations scik!!!

and happy birthday ivy!

Congrats to you and your lovely wife :)

Thank you, and happy birthday Ivy.

Happy birthdays, Ivy and Nora!

Congrats SM!

^the same things all these guys said! Such good news.

Nice, one, scik! Congratulations!