As a new parent much excited to welcome the cure little thing planning baby registry might seem cumbersome though it is not so tough in reality :) Who can resist the temptation to feel the touch, sense the smell, enjoy the happiness of the cute little thing after 9 months of penance? Here at bellbang.com we aim to make your journey towards parenthood easy, comfortable. Here is a baby registry tip on deciding on number of diapers to buy for your newborn baby
1) Diaper count - In reality on an average a newborn baby does consume 6 to 8 diapers per day. From the moment baby is born, at hospital they offer you diaper registry that mandates you to record the timings your little one does pee or pooh. This is a track that you need to do round the clock. For first 1 week keep doing this. Typically once you leave the hospital, you will have to visit your pediatrician's office where the doctor will ask for the registry. Pediatrician will look for frequency of pee and pooh to make sure the little one is doing fine, color of pooh and pee if you find something obvious. Here we are not medical practitioners and don't take this as a final word. If you find dark yellow pee, call your pediatrician office immediately as this may be indication of first jaundice. This is a totally separate topic :). Now , coming to the count on an average 8 diapers per day is what you can expect to change
2) Choosing diaper brand - This is crucially confusing step. I have blogged in detail about advantages of shop branded diapers, lots of savings you can expect from the shop branded diapers etc. IF you are not convinced popular brands can be chosen from target, amazon mom prime, walmart, costco etc
3) Weight of baby Vs diaper size - While you shop for diapers make sure you don't overbuy as the diaper size depends on baby's weight. Now, diaper count makes good sense :) Say, your little one is considered newborn until certain weight. Look for weight chart from your pediatrician's office. If you think to save more money by availing coupon offers during baby registry stage, plan correctly with average weight and diaper usage in mind
4) Extension of newborn diaper usage - It is to be noted that diaper is named newborn, 1 month and so on based on weight of the baby. However, in real scenario this is not 100% true. If you have some leftover diapers you can still use them for few more days. It does fit the bill and you will not end up wasting any diapers
5) Coupon from baby registry - This is something you can organize, save for future diaper purchase. Some brands offer coupon that can be again used with same brand purchase. See if you save better with shop branded diapers
Shop brand diapers cheapest saving ray for parents
Diaper is an expense that starts with first cry. Diaper finds prominent place in your baby registry. With 1000's of brands, types of diapers in place picking the correct diaper for your kid with best deal has always been a challenge to parents.
As a parent or a parent to be most of us go with online reviews, talk to our family and friends,get information from family and friends to know which diaper to choose for our to-be born little blessing. As such diaper is an essential as well as expensive baby product that can't be overlooked. Say, on an average in a span of 3 years if you calculate carefully you would have spent closer to $4500 on diapers if not carefully chosen.
New parents have lots of confusion on choosign diaper as this is their first experience most of us prefer to go with standard brand names like Pampers, Huggies, Luv's etc. During purchase diaper brands offer gift card based on offer availability as well. As such the average cost of diaper for newborn, size 1 etc comes around $.29 per diaper on top brands. The average brand say luv's costs around $0.14 per diaper.
Based on my personal experience I did purchase costco proprietor brand Kirkland diaper recently. Walmart has their own brand of diapers as well. I choose to call these kind of diapers shop brand diapers. The interesting part is that the average cost per diaper was around $0.11 per diaper. When we compare with even an average brands this is a good saving. Also, the number of diapers and the average baby growth rate is found to be in tally. Hence we will not have issue of baby outgrowing too many diapers. Considering this I wanted to share my personal experience so that parents and parents to be can checkout deals on shop brand diapers before jumping into conclusion that popular brand names are the only ones to be bought.
Considering the quality of the shop diaper, they are not too sophisticated as the popular brands. But they are not bad indeed. They serve the intended purpose of protecting against leak. The retention is comparable to popular brand. In worst case scenario if we choose to use double the number of shop diapers still the savings is better than using branded diapers
6) Baby registry timing for diaper purchase - Say you choose baby registry with targeted shops. Best thing would be to apply for card, avail best purchase discounts that come as part of that store card. However, some credit cards like discover card offer best cashback offers during chosen time of year on retail purchases, purchase at amazon.com etc. This can even be 20% discount while using such cards on certain seasons. Though this may not be urgent for you choose to make purchase well in advance to get best price and deals
