Diapers, Drypers

The first supermarket shopping I had for a baby was when I was around 8 months pregnant. I had a long list of stuff to buy. One of them was diapers, as it is my first baby and I had no experience, I decided to buy more than one brand. First diaper brand I chose was Drypers. 

I chose it because I saw some parents are buying it, and it's economical.

Well I tried Drypers WeeweeDry and Drypers Soft on my newborn.

I didn't like WeeWeeDry. As I liked the feel of cotton cloth for a diaper, the diaper didn't feel like cotton. In the Drypers website they didn't talk about the cloth material except they just wrote it is breathable, however I felt otherwise. Another reason for me not liking it is the diaper's absorbency power! The company describes it as "new Soft Absorb Layer made up of a soft wavy perforated layer that helps to draw and secure poo away from newborn baby’s sensitive skin to keep skin clean and healthy" or in other words the absorbent powder that they use. My experience showed that baby's urine will stick like gelatine balls on baby's butt !!! I personally prefer Drypers Soft which has less absorbent powder residues.

Drypers advantage as mentioned earlier is it's price. 

Sahar.H

Diapers, MamyPoko

If you live in Asia, you would know that MamyPoko is one of the strong brands of diapers in South East Asia. 

In my post on Huggies I mentioned that, I met a new parent couple in hospital. They gave their opinion on Huggies, and as I was still pregnant, so I was curious to know people's opinion on baby's products, I asked them what diaper brand are they using? The answer was unreservedly "MamyPoko is the best"!!! Well it was their first baby, not even a month old yet. 

They are in my first consumer group category, the group that media made it clear to them, what is a good brand. Congratulation to the MamyPoko company I love your marketing strategy. 

((I was out of MamyPoko diaper, just grab an opportunity in the supermarket))

First thing that everyone checks a diaper brand for is its price! MamyPoko is not cheap!

When I dressed my baby for the first time with MomyPoko it leaked! Because I was using Huggies with the elastic waistband and MamyPoko doesn't have it. I didn't know it will loosen itself around the waist after sometime of wearing it!!! I left a breathing space for my baby on the tummy, and later when I changed his diaper my hand could go through the space between diaper and tummy !!! 

I hate it when I had to tighten the diaper around his waist that much. 

One other problem I had with MomyPoko was at night time. I had to change my baby's diaper at least 2 times at night, the changing diaper routines woke my baby up, and so all the hope of just waking up to feed baby, and catching up on sleep was gone.

What if I didn't change the diaper at night?! Well, easy and short answer! His bed could become like a cloth on top of the boiling pot! Full of moisture and warmth.

If there is one thing I like about MomyPoko, is it's coverage of the baby's butt. MomyPoko's coverage compared to Huggies is much wilder in both ways - horizontal and vertical on baby's bottom. 

All of my updates on MomyPoko will be in this page.

Sahar.H

Diapers, Huggies

Diaper

As I wrote in my previous post, I am going through the diaper brands that I have used on my sweetheart's butt. As I will go through the details of each diaper, I will write on each brand in a separate post. 

I want to start sharing about my baby!!! Since every baby is unique, so I will tell you about my baby's size. 

    

Now he is around 6+ kg, his thighs are lovely, because he gained weight there first. Usually I can't dress him the size that the diaper brands suggested because the diapers are small around his thighs and leave a red mark there, so I have to use a bigger size. Right now I am using  L size.

About his skin I can say I just love his ultra soft skin which fortunately is not sensitive. He got diaper rash just once which all settled down by the next day. 

Well, let's start with Huggies ...

The hospital that my son was born in provided Huggies and a new parent we met told us the hospital used Huggies because they received them for free! But the nursery staff told us, they use Huggies because babies wouldn't get diaper rash !?

Anyway, after my 3 night stay in hospital, my son finished exactly one packet of S size Huggies. However, on the day of our discharge, they opened another new packet, so we had no choice but pay for the extra packet. That's my first time experience of the brand! It was Huggies ultra. Even so, I liked using them. 

My baby was born 2.9 kg, he was too tiny when we first brought him home. Huggies fitted him very well. It felt breathable to me and the cotton looked ok. What I like most about Huggies is the elastic waistband. 

Anyway my son couldn't wear S size when his weight was about 3.5kg anymore because of the red marks the diaper left on his thighs, So I had to switch to a bigger size. 

I started disliking Huggies because of the overall fit on my baby.  The recommended size by weight was leaving deep red marks on his thighs, while the bigger size was leaking. It is too narrow on the butt. 

Well, I still continue using Huggies because I dislike the other brands that I tested more than Huggies, until I tried a Japanese brand ( I'll tell you about it soon). For now, I still have Huggies to use. 

My dear hubby suggested that I better try Huggies dry pants too, so I did. Not a good idea !!! As my baby is fully breastfed and his poop is soft, taking off the diaper was too difficult, so I used scissors. Later I found out that pants are good when the babies can stand up themselves, and is recommended for active babies. However I think around the thighs the dry pants is a bit tighter than Huggies ultra. 

I was reading the reviews on diaper brands and I read lots of positive comments on Pampers but where I live,  I still haven't found it at the local supermarkets! I am not sure if the Pampers company doesn't want to sell here or I am looking for it in wrong places!?!? 

I will update you here on my Huggies experience.

Sahar. H

Products

Diapers: 

Diaper duty It's a mommies job, but it's true to say that none of us could think of touching or thinking, and even having a dream about poop when we were our mommy's girl. There you go we are spending hours everyday with it.

We got used to looking at inside the diaper, check the quality and quantity of the poop much stricter than the drug companies do for their production line.

We are spending hours and hours reading about a sweet topic of poop and baby bottom care, and when it comes to choosing a diaper we are covered by lots of positive and negative advertising for each of the brands.

Let me put it this way, media made it clear to some group of mommies what is the good brand ! While another group wouldn't feel happy till they make sure that they got the best fit for their baby. 

Well I am in the  second group, that's why I tried what ever brand I could find in the supermarkets. 

In my next post I'm gonna share with you what is my expectation from a diaper, what is a good diaper from my point of view, and also I'm gonna go through the details of each brand that I have used for my baby.

Love you all 

Sahar.H 

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