Nappy bins

[Tokyo87]

Hi all

FTM and just wondering if people had any recommendations?
Finding I'm dithering on trying to decide on one as they seem to range a fair bit on price (Amazon) and always seem to have mixed reviews. Probably also due to the fact I don't know how much of an 'essential item' they are 🤷🏻‍♀️🤯

I was given one as a gift, used it for one or two days 🤷🏼‍♀️

Pointless in my opinion.

They aren't worth it in my opinion

We just used a nappy bucket with a lid. Put each nappy in a nappy sack and empty and disinfect regularly. I'll be using it again for our second.

I like the tommee tippee sangenic twist & click, I got a starter pack one on offer from amazon a while ago for £26.

They're not essential but keep smells in better if you don't want to be going to the outside bin often. I wouldn't have bought it at full price.

I think they're a bit of a con particularly the ones that you have to buy the special cartridges to refill.

If you live in a house it's easy enough to chuck poo nappies straight in the outside bin, or have a small bin just outside the back door for nappies

If you live in a flat, a nappy bin is a bit more useful but we just use a normal bin with a lid and normal bin bags. If you are particularly bothered about smells then kitchen bins with odour-proof lids tend to work just as well and can work out cheaper.

I was told that the best one of the baby nappy bins is the Tommee Tippee twist one. The others don't actually "seal" in each nappy.

You just don’t need one of these. I’d rather get pooey nappies into the outside bin sooner rather than later. I knew 2 mums who had one of these bins and both of the bins smelled

I've got the tommee tippee one but not the sangenic twist one. They do a job but to be honest the refills are expensive and they don't hold that many nappies.

We use the Tommee Tippee Sangenic and find it really good ( twist close to lock in smells), some say not but have found it very useful, have it in our bedroom where change table is and don’t want dirty nappy smells in there (also pop my maternity pads in there too, get through loads of these post-natally and is nice to dispose of them hygenically)

So you can wrap the plastic nappy in extra plastic within a plastic bin?

Nappies can easily be made into balls using the tabs, they don't need scented nappy bags. Put in any bin indoors and empty once or twice a day.

Once the baby has solid poos around 6 months, put the poo in the loo.

Our council has nappy recycling so they’re super useful, I have one on each floor 😀.
Fuck faffing with tying up a nappy sack at 3am when there’s shit everywhere, that’s the fourth wake up of the night and your nipples are red raw. Just Chuck it in and twist.. gone.

The tommee tippee twist one is great. Never had any smells.

We went to a holiday let where they had just a normal little bin to put them in.. god it stank

I have a tommee tippee sangenic bin. Picked it up for a couple of quid on marketplace but sometimes people are giving them away for free. Just give it a good clean. The refills aren't cheap but totally worth it in my opinion. You can get them from Amazon in bulk to save a bit of money. Keeps smells in pretty well too.

Yeah have seen the Tommy yippee twist/sangenic ones, wondered whether they were worth the price plus price if refills. So interesting to hear opinions.

We're in a fifth floor apartment and will be for up to a year potentially so need to think about easiness. Can't just pop in the outside bin, it's a lift journey plus 2 minute walk

I was going to say the only way I'd get a nappy bin is if I was in a flat and it was a walk to the outside. In your case I'd get one OP

Anything you read online says they’re a “waste of money”, pointless, unused, think it depends so much on your routine with your baby.

I bought a Tommee Tippee second generation one for £2 in second trimester, was quite pressured by the person selling me their snuzpod! Thought ok I’ll just take it. We ended up using it so much, within a week of giving birth bought one full price from John Lewis.

I had one at the foot of the snuzpod, nappy changing materials in snuzpocket and a changing mat between the snuzpod and wall. I could do a nappy change by just pulling it out on the bed and dispose of nappy immediately. I did not have to leave bed at all.

We bought the second one for downstairs, so I didn’t have to go upstairs to dispose. Our original plan was to just put outside in nappy bag straight into bin, but i didnt really want to move more than I had to, and opening the door and bin lid in whatever weather then washing hands so often wasn’t realistic. We only have the kitchen bin (emptied twice a week) and a tiny bathroom bin (emptied once a week) in the house though. We don’t generate much waste. Putting 10+ nappies a day in those bins would have been more work.

I got the 12 pack refills from Boots, £60. Then you get points and can double up as well. On the last order, we used Amazon, and the refills arrived in different packaging and they DONT contain the smell (I checked that they were for the twist and click). I’m not sure, I googled and read Amazon sellers can sell fakes and it gets mixed up or it could be old stock. Really annoying.

I'd price up the Sangenic plus special casettes, vs a kitchen bin with odour control lid plus normal bin bags.

If you have a balcony, that's another option for a cheaper bin to go out there. As we just have a crappy cheap bin, once DS2 got into the toddler years the poo nappies did start to stink out the house a bit so we keep the nappy bin on the balcony now. It wasn't a very strong smell but just slight lingering all the time which I didn't like.

I know you are asking for disposable but have you considered using washable nappies at all?

Our bins are collected rarely, and outside bin awkward to get to so this was large factor. Nappies washed every other day here, in nappies bin with mesh ( so all nappies stand in mesh and in machine cleanly).
No smells from days old nappies and no having to carry huge amounts of waste down in the lift.

Ours dry on drying rack indoors in winter fine or on balcony if nice ( but you could do inside all year fine if needed, they can go in dryer as well )

Did your baby poo 10+ times a day BakeOff?

Just curious because with DC1 I lived in a house and we just chucked the wee nappies in the kitchen bin, the poo ones went straight outside, but DS1 only ever pooed about once every 3-4 days and then once a day or two once he was on solids, so it was absolutely no issue at all.

DS2 pooed a lot more but we were in the flat by then so it was different anyway.

It probably depends on your set up. In a flat or huge house it might be worthwhile.

I bought the sangenic one with my first. Used it for a few weeks. I never bothered with my second and still have a pack of cartridges in the shed that I should pass on to someone.

I think it's an essential. You need to price up the refills tho.

I have three 🤦‍♀️ of the click and twist, one in each of the kids rooms and one downstairs, when they are small they hold the smell fine once they get bigger and are doing propper man sized shites then not so much. But then it's more likely just one a day that I have to take out to the outside bin which I can cope with

I used one with my first... I was given it and handed it on. I just picked one up for £7.99 from Aldi. I wouldn't pay a lot for it... it's convenient to have upstairs to stop having to traipse out to the bin 603 times a day in the early days... but once we weaned, I quickly made a no poo rule to stop it smelling.

I was really sceptical but we were given one and we still use it now, DD is two. When she's potty trained it will be repurposed in some way, probably Involving my compost system somehow. We have a twisty one, forget which model but it's a Tommy Tippee. We did and still do a lot of nappy changes upstairs so was handy to have something that contained the smells for a little while instead of having nappy bags in the nursery and having to cart them downstairs while holding baby. I tried to get on with reusables but they made DD sore in different places depending on which aspect we were tweaking trying to get them to either fit or work better.