Diaper Discovery

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December 3rd, 2009 |

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We’ve been trying all sorts of ways to save money around the house. From showering together (when we used to be able to fit in the shower together), reusing toilet paper, washing the cars with the windows down to get a little pre-wash action going on our laundry, and buying cheaper diapers.

All of the above might be a bit gross, but they all worked 90% of the time.

That is, until we discovered the bad side of using cheap diapers. We went from Pampers Cruisers at about 30 bucks a case to Luvs, which clock in around 20 bones a case. The Luvs were cheaper in every way including the sound they make. With Pampers you can’t tell when lil’ dude’s escaping, but with Luvs, when you hear the crinkle you can assume one of two things are happening, either he’s bout to fly to coop or he stole a few grocery bags and crotched em.

The Pampers contain a hell of a lot better than the Luvs, but saving ten bucks a week takes precedence over a few extra loads of laundry.

Until this past weekened when I went in to greet my lil’ dude early Saturday morning and discovered a full dipe inside his zip up pj’s. Yet when I unzipped him and went to yank his leg from its sheathe I felt these grainy type balls that were kind of wet and mushy stuck to his thigh.

Yes, the diaper was so full it had begun to degrade so rapidly that the chemicals that bond with the piss in his diaper got fed up and skipped town, aka the resovoir where this type of stuff normally lives, and ended up everywhere else besides IN the diaper.

Of course we have experienced this before, but never to this magnitude. It was stuck to every inch of his nearly 3 foot body and his recent pick up of the term EEWWW made his sentiments more impactful as he was clearly disgusted in the clingy piss balls attached to his porcelin skin.

We understand Luvs save us money and normally keep the 1′s and 2′s confined until we can get there, but we need to think about how this might be affecting his sleeping in. We change him pretty regularly when we’re all awake, but sleepytime is our church and we like to pray a shitton.

So we’re trying something new. We have purchased Pampers’ 12 Hour diapers and are using those exclusively after bathtime every night. It’s been 4 nights and so far he’s slept in past 6am every morning.

I’m hoping that by the time the twinvasion begins, he’ll sleep to around 10am.