Do I need a 'nappy bin' for my newborns?

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Heard a few mixed reviews.
34 weeks pregnant with twins, and trying to get last few bits sorted.
Thinking about buying a nappy bin to keep upstairs so I don't have to keep going downstairs to our outside bin, but not sure if just an expensive waste of time.

Any thoughts, experience or recommendations?

TIA x

With twins probably worth it. I had one but basically emptied it at the end of every day or other day.

I never saw the need. Just have a small bin upstairs and empty every day or two or every few days if you're lazy like me

Not a waste of time or money imo. We have a fairly big house and it has been really useful with one DS

I would...when I first had DD I lived in a flat so just used the one bin for everything but now with an upstairs it was one of the first things I got when we moved. Will fill up quick with twins though! Good luck on your impending arrivals!

We tried to manage with nappy sacks in an internal bin, but we could still smell them. So bought a Sangenic nappy bin and have been really pleased with it. Easy to use, no smell and easy to empty. Only downside is the refill cassettes are quite expensive.

We have a bucket and line it with bags (we don't use individual nappy sacks). We empty it most days.
We've two toddlers in nappies.

Thank you for opinions! Probably shouldn't have phrased is as 'do I need', I'm just looking for little things that might make my day easier

I had one. It stank. It was worth the walk to the outside bin.

You don't need a special 'Nappy Bin' - you can get all sorts of automated, smell reducing nonsense. But any old bin near wherever you change the babies is handy.

I had a small bin upstairs for wet nappies and emptied it every day, but always took smelly nappies straight downstairs to the outside bin. I don't use nappy sacks at home.

My sister had a special nappy bin that wrapped each nappy in plastic as you push it into the bin. To be honest it just stank of baby poo all through the upstairs of her house.

I had twins, I found a standard plastic kitchen bin upstairs was very helpful for the nappy onslaught phase - up to sixteen a day at one point!

I definitely think the sangenic bins make life a little easier, every day, multiple times a day (and night!) so if you have the option of getting one and you are tempted, do.
I didn't want to traipse out to the outside bin every time I changed my baby (and then juggle the bin and baby!) and I didn't want to smell his stinky nappies between bin changes.
He's two now and we still use it constantly. Value for money IMHO

I had twins and a toddler so loads of nappies.

We had a bin for DS1, but as people above said, they smell.

So we just put them in a bag in the kitchen bin and emptied that once or twice a day. DH a very efficient bin emptier.

(sorry TMI - emptied toddler's nappy into the loo and flushed it to avoid smells. Doable if you catch them straight away)

We used nappy sacs, wet nappies went in a bag in a normal bin to be emptied every 24-48hrs, dirty nappies went straight into the wheelie bin (actually, they went in the front porch area and when DH got home he would transfer them into the bin!).

I think with twins the cassettes for the nappy bin will get expensive very quickly. And as someone once described it, it just leaves you with a fragranced poo-sausage of nappies which needs emptying out...

Hmm some mixed opinions then. I think if we go for one it'll be the Sangenic thing.
Might hold off until they are here and see how we go, I suppose that's the good thing about online shopping, if I get desperate I can order and have one here next day!

Thanks again.

We had one it was great at keeping smells in poo nappies went straight outside only wee nappies were put in it

I have twins and a three storey townhouse. We have changing stations in the babies' room on the top floor and in the living room on the middle floor. We have the Sangenic bins in both rooms and I find them pretty effective at holding in the smell. I certainly would not be without them. I would struggle to go downstairs to the bin at the end of the garden every time one of them has a poo. Some days are fine; other days they each go multiple times.

We just put pooey nappies straight in the wheely bin and left wet nappies (in a sack) in the nursery bin and emptied it whenever we felt the need. That doesn't work for middle of the night poos, but IME newborn poo, especially if BF, doesn't smell bad, and by the time they've got to the bad smell age they've stopped doing nightime bowel movements.

I just got lidded buckets from the plastic tat shop. Mainly used washables but they contained the smell fine. Disposables were put in a nappy sack and flung onto the landing, to be disposed of in due course. I always found those machines that made nappy sausages smelt...

I changed the baby downstairs, only time I changed upstairs was before bath and occasional middle of the night when she was tiny. Wet nappies went in kitchen bin and dirty in a bag and straight in outside bin. I would take the nappies down once baby in bed or whatever.

We never used bins. We simply put the nappy in a nappy bag and throw out the landing window, where it lands neatly next to the wheelie bin ready to be put in when we go out!

A mate of mine had a Sangenic and was happy with it until a childfree friend visited and said "err, I have to tell you, your nursery smells of shit".

We never had one but I found that daytine bums got changed dowstairs on the floor (no way was I traipsing up to a change table X times a day) so nappies were bagged and chucked at the back door and id take them out when I had a sec.

Night nappies were generally only pooey in the first few weeks and on those nights after a bum change and a feed Id need a wee so Id just do the same and chuck it at the back door after they went back down. After a few weeks they were wees only at night so theyd get bagged and into a little basket bin in the bedroom and emptied in the morning.

We had one, tried to use the Amazon own brand cassettes after a while and found they did not stop the smell really and it's very expensive to keep using the official ones so we stopped using it. Not bothering second time round. As pp said, BF baby poo doesn't have a strong smell and by the time you start weaning they will no longer poo during the night usually, so it is much easier to just take them outside in nappy bags after changing downstairs during the day.

I have a sangenic, it's in its fourth year now on baby number two. We live in a flat and have to go out the front door and round the building to the bin store, so it's worth having for us. DD can poo three or four times a day!

Mostly it keeps the smell in just fine - there was a leak some time ago but a rinse with water/fairy liquid cleaned it up and bicarb got rid of the smell. If I'm ever concerned about it (DD can certainly do some stinkers) I just sprinkle some bicarb in the base to neutralise odours.

I pay just under a tenner for three cassettes every 2 months and Amazon delivers them to my door.