Do you use a diaper pail? If not, what do you do?

Question

What kind of diaper pail do you use, if you use one. What are the pro's and cons.

From what I hear from everyone, the nursery will still smell like p**p, and it's just a huge waste of money.

So, if you don't use one, what do you do?

The environmentalist in me says that I'm always going to scrape the p**p out of the diapers into the toilet, because its a lot more environmentally friendly.

So I feel like if there were a diaper pail in the room I'd get too lazy to run to the bathroom with the baby every time to scrape the diaper. you know?

Do you put soiled diapers immediately in the outside trash? do you wrap them up?

Or do you have a diaper pail that has inexpensive refills that does NOT make the nursery smell?

Answer 1

We change my son in the living room, and we just buy the scented flex garbage bags for the kitchen. I just roll up the diaper and pull the tabs so its closed, then chuck it in the regular garbage.  

Answer 2

We use the Diaper Genie II.  We only have garbage collection once a week, and so having something that can work inside the house is useful. It does not smell at all, as long as you push the diaper down under the flap.  Having one big "diaper sausage" wastes less plastic than wrapping individual diapers in bags.  The refills are often on sale at Target or Babies R Us ($5 or less).  

Answer 3

The diaper Genie is expensive and still stinks. Other diaper pails stink up the room as soon as you open the lid.

I fold the dirty diaper back, re-secure it with the side tabs, then just drop it in the regular kitchen garbage. I take that out pretty much daily. If it is an especially stinky load, I put the diaper in a shopping bag, and then drop it in the kitchen bin - this is a good use for all those grocery bags.

Scraping the p**p out? That's a waste of time... Your baby's p**p will not harm the environment. It is the disposable diaper itself that is not environmentally friendly. The p**p will be gone within days or weeks, the diaper will remain in the landfill site for hundreds of years.

If you really want to go green, you should consider using cloth diapers or a cloth diaper service. I used cloth diapers with my first baby and with the second baby till the third one was born. After that I no longer had the time so I chose the convenience of the disposable ones.

Best of luck!

Answer 4

i have the diaper genie 2 its great.  ive used the diaper genie 1 and like it also.  they both do great at keeping the scents down.  the only downfall is the price of the refills at around  $6.  I refil mine about every month or alittle more.  the genies themselves are only about 20-25 though.  or i would just stick a little trashcan with lid outside your house on the back porch and put them in there.  

Answer 5

I use the Safety 1st Diaper pail in which you use your own trash bags.  I have used it for the past 17 months and it only stinks if the top is not down all the way.  With my first child I had the Diaper Genie and hated it because it stunk way to much.  With my 2nd child I just used a trash can with a lid and wrapped each stinky diaper in one of those blue scented diaper bags..but it also stunk if it wasn't taken out every day or two.

Answer 6

the few times we use disposable diapers, we just throw them away in the trash can.  However we usually use cloth diapers and put them straight into the wet bucket to be washed every other day

Answer 7

I jsut use a plain garbage can. i double wrap the diapers in plastic bags OR i buy the scented plastic wraps made especially for dirty diapers

Answer 8

We always use a regular trash can in our kitchen. I wrap them in scented baggies made for soiled diapers. We take out our trash on a daily basis. I never noticed an odor and our guest are either really polite or never notice an odor either. My friend used a diaper genie in her nursery and every time I went in there I could smell the diapers. It was really awful. The smell made me want to gag. I said something once and I guess she was used to the smell because she didn't notice it. But they have pets inside too. That may have made a difference. IDK. They sell diaper pails that you can use regular trash bags in. That would save money. Even if you scrape the p**p the diaper will still smell like p**p.

Answer 9

i wrap them up and pull the tabs tight so they stay closed, and then i put  them in a cheap zip lock bag and zip each one up as i change them, works like a charm and you can get the cheap zip lock bags in boxes of 80-100 at wal mart for about 3 bucks.

Answer 10

We would wrap the diaper up good, and if there was a newspaper bag or bread bag, or any other kind of trash type paper, we would wrap the diaper up in that and throw it in the trash in the garage.  

My sister got a diaper genie for her shower, but it ended up not being very practical, as the nursery was upstairs, and her living area was downstairs.

Answer 11

Diaper Genie 2.

It's awesome.  No smell, easy to empty and refill.  check it out.  you'll be glad you did.

Answer 12

i don't own one of those fancy diaper genies and I had made up my mind I didn't want one from all of the negative talk about them. Instead when my son poops, I put the diaper in these bags called Sassy bags. They are sold at Wal-Mart for $1.97 for 50 bags in a pack. They are easy to use and they can be carried around in a diaper bag. They are scented as baby powder. These bags actually work.

PROUD MOMMY TO A 3 WEEK OLD BABY BOY NAMED JORDAN

Answer 13

We use a regular garbage can in her room for pee diapers only and there is no smell whatsoever. We only change 1-2 diapers a day in her room and the rest we change downstairs in the living room. Those that we change in the living room go in the regular trash can in the kitchen. The trash is taken out about every other day. For all of the p**p diapers, they go in the kitchen trash can regardless of whether we changed her upstairs or downstairs. Before we throw a diaper away, we roll it up and then pull the tabs across either side to seal it up to prevent smells from getting out. Since we change the trash often, we've never had a problem where we've walked back into the house after being away for a day and thought "ew! gross!" There is never a smell because the diaper is sealed up tight. I know some people also seal them the way we do and also throw them into a plastic bag and then tie the bag up for extra smell protection.

Answer 14

I use the Diaper Champ from Toys R Us.  They use them in their own bathrooms at their stores.  

It is great because:

- it keeps the smell to a minimum because the chamber swings open and closes twice to lock in smells

- It also takes any kind of plastic bag or even old pillowcases (to be more environmentally friendly.  

Answer 15

I have a Diaper Genie and it works just fine.  It is scented when you open it and I can't smell a thing.  My mom said she can't smell anything either, and she doesn't live here, so it's not like I'm used to it.  

I don't know if it makes a difference, but I breastfeed and her BMs aren't that smelly.  I've heard Formula fed babies have smellier BMs.

Answer 16

a normal garbage can  

Answer 17

I started out with a Playtex Diaper Genie. That didn't last long. It did a great job at keeping the smell out. The problem though was that the refills were expensive, and half of the time the twisting and cutting mechanisms didn't work. It also doesn't hold much. I finally got fed up one day. First I went to Wal-Mart and picked up a five dollar trash can with a pop open lid. Then I went to a dollar store and picked up a bunch of vanilla scented kitchen bags. This actually has worked out pretty well. My son is 4 months old now and I have yet to deal with escaping diaper smells. Then again I also do things such as spray the can down with Lysol each time I change bags. ANY diaper pail or trash can is going to start smelling if you don't do something to kill germs and freshen things up.