Diaper Drama

How you diaper your baby is important, do it wrong and you will have a mess to clean up.  And I don't mean you did something stupid with the diaper while half asleep. Though in the early months the sleep deprivation will be amazing.

Also the diapering mistakes non-child having friends and family may make while trying to help out can be down right amusing.  My brother babysat for us and managed to put the diaper on the baby backwards.  (You would think that the diaper my son started off in would be a hint as to the way the next one should go on.)  And one friend who will go unnamed thought the little ruffles in the diaper would be cuter if they were pointed out (for a ruffle effect) rather than pointed in to better contain baby bi-product.

Now with regards to the right and wrong I initially meant:  I'm talking about how the diaper fits.

With disposable / compostable diapers, if the diaper is too big it will leak out the leg holes, and if it's too small it will leak out the top!  And don't even get me started on the reusable diapers.  We are talking about some serious absorbency issues.  (And trying to take that show on the road is awkward at best. You need a place to rinse out the offending mess and then a water proof bag to contain the used diaper.) I have some friends who started out with reusable diapers, long story short, they switched to disposable.

Conveniently the boxes of diapers will list an approximate weight range that they expect will correspond with the diaper size printed on the box.  And they are close enough to right that I don't feel inclined to make a big deal about it.

Beware growth spurts!  While it's wonderful that your child is shooting up like a weed, keep an eye on how that diaper fits.  (Or more likely how what was once a perfect fit is now leaving a warm wet mess in it's wake.)  Just when you thought you had figured it all out, your baby went and changed the game on you. Though that observation tends to be true for more than just diapers.