https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 07 May 2026 15:48:06 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2833235 Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:31:26 +0000 meadow 2833235@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cnidaria: thats a good point. I *assume* that I checked last year....but at that point they weren't SSTN so my observation skills were.....wellllll........ haha</p> <p>Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2833209 Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:57:28 +0000 Foodnerd81 2833209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cnidaria: we went on vacation when my older daughter was 20 months old and she pooped in her wet swim diaper Every. Single. Day. Both disposable and the reusable one I used when I thought we were in the clear. Luckily we were staying in a condo with a washing machine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2833158 Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:09:58 +0000 Mrsbells 2833158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Like others have said. Swim diapers are not absorbent they just keep in poop. The chlorine in the pool makes it ok that the pee gets into the pool </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2833120 Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:04:15 +0000 cnidaria 2833120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would probably double check what the condo's rules are... some places will specify that children have to be potty trained in order to go in the water. If they don't have anything posted, though, I wouldn't worry about it! I remember asking our public pool about it when our LO started swim lessons at 4 months and they just laughed and said that's the reason why they keep the pool so well chlorinated!</p> <p>We have a couple of reusable ones that we got on Amazon, they're adjustable and have been fitting from 4-20 months so far. We've been lucky, though, because she's never actually pooped in one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832952 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:14:24 +0000 MountainBaby 2832952@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love my reusable ones! They fit tight so I've never worried about poo, and didn't have any leakage when LO had a really big peanut butter type poo in our backyard pool. Highly recommend! this is the one I have but there are others. The snaps on the side makes them easy to remove. </p> <p><a href="http://www.diaperjunction.com/sweet-pea-swim-diaper.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.diaperjunction.com/sweet-pea-swim-diaper.html</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832903 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:34:34 +0000 psw27 2832903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have both reuseable and the disposable ones but I always fear the poop in the reuseable diapers so I tend to only use them if I'm sure we are clear for poop. I also tend to be an idiot and completely forget about changing my LO out of the regular diaper until I see his huge puffy diaper under his bathing suit. LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832895 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:19:13 +0000 lilyofthewest 2832895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a reusable one and used a very small, trim cloth insert in it. It was enough to contain one pee so that we could change into the swim diaper more than mere moments before getting into the water without risk of a mess. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832893 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:14:51 +0000 pachamama 2832893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not sure if this is the answer you're looking for, but I got reusable ones from Amazon. They were amazing and 'grew' with my son. They also are eco-friendly. They were so tight they actually did seem to hold water (and pee???) in at least a little. When I would take the diaper off a huge gush of water would come out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832735 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 02:35:15 +0000 agold 2832735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: You just made me laugh out loud with the swim up bar story. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832714 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 21:17:06 +0000 PinkElephant 2832714@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: yes, this!! I carry both, and use the reusable one when I'm relatively sure we're not in danger of a poop incident! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832711 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 20:34:20 +0000 nana87 2832711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha we learned this via a very wet car seat (and frantic screaming lo1!) too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832710 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 20:02:45 +0000 Foodnerd81 2832710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am thankful to this forum for teaching me that swim diapers don’t contain pee- I was actually able to learn this the easy way!! </p> <p>So yes, swim diapers contain poop only. I generally use disposable at our pool club, but if she poops there and I change it I’ll put her in a reusable swim diaper, since I’m fairly sure she won’t poop again so it’s easier on my wallet and the environment. At home, like in our little kiddie pool, I usually do reusable swim diaper for the same reason. Disposable swim diapers are expensive! But wet poop is nasty... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832701 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:39:18 +0000 meadow 2832701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: @Pollywog: @erinbaderin: @FaithFertility: @Dahlia: @SweetiePie: @PinkElephant: thanks all!! I'm glad that it sounds like this is the norm!!! I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something!</p> <p>And yes, we don't travel in our swim diapers :wink: I was actually so proud of myself recently for thinking of this: strip clothes, sunscreen while in regular diaper, switch diapers, bathing suit!! Way less stressful than trying to make sure noone pees in the house while I get them both ready 😛😛 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832687 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:48:25 +0000 SweetiePie 2832687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PinkElephant: @FaithFertility: Haha yes we learned the hard way too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832686 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:12:57 +0000 PinkElephant 2832686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At our swim club, the rule is that babies must wear a swim diaper (disposable or reusable) covered by plastic pants (Gerber makes them for potty training with old-school cloth diapers/cloth training pants, I think that's the original intended purpose). But again, that's just to ensure containment of looser, baby-textured bowel movements, haha...not pee.</p> <p>I learned the hard way about swim diapers not holding pee when DD1 peed through one (and all over my dry sundress, haha) while taking family beach photos. Oops! :) :) </p> <p>So it's also worth noting you might not want to travel in a car seat in a swim diaper only!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832683 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 14:54:42 +0000 FaithFertility 2832683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I learned the hars way that they do not contain pee, put DD in one and her Bathing suit to find her car seat soaked when we got to beach lol</p> <p>It is to contain BM only I always put now DS in one at any public pool or beach </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832682 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 14:36:49 +0000 Dahlia 2832682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Seconding everyone, no swim diaper contains pee. We use a reusable one and the pee comes right out. That's just the way it is! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832681 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 14:22:05 +0000 Pollywog 2832681@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's fine. Chlorine kills pee. I use reusable diapers because I cloth diaper, but I also potty trained early and taught my kid that if he needs to pee, we will pee in the shower (which is bad, but we pee on the drain and he can't fit on the potties at the pool)</p> <p>Also, as a swimmer, most adults pee in the pool. I swear it's just my toddler who gets out to pee :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832680 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 14:01:35 +0000 erinbaderin 2832680@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Swim diapers are just to contain poop. But really - any public pool is probably 10% pee, at least that’s my theory. We were in Mexico and they had a kid’s pool and my aunt said that it was probably full of pee and I pointed out that the bros who spent their day at the swim-up bar were also probably not getting out to pee. </p> <p>That being said I did invest in a reusable swim diaper just for environmental reasons. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832679 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 13:47:46 +0000 SweetiePie 2832679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No swim diaper contains pee. That’s just the way it is. It should (mostly) contain poop and that is their purpose.<br /> No one is expecting a baby or child wearing a swim diaper to be able to say “I have to pee” and get out of the pool first. The whole point is to wear when you aren’t potty trained. </p> <p>I always know that there’s going to be some amount of pee in any pool that kids are in. 🤷🏻‍♀️<br /> Oddly enough my almost 4yo won’t pee in the pool. He tells us multiple times that he has to pee and we have to get out and take him. But up until maybe 6-12m ago, I’m positive he peed in the pool. We can’t control it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swim-diapers-public-etiquette#post-2832678 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 13:41:51 +0000 meadow 2832678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I spent half of last summer putting my kids in swim diapers (Huggies Little Swimmers) for playing in our baby pool, water table, and in a grown up pool before I realized that the reason the diapers don't blow up is that they don't contain pee at all. OOPS.</p> <p>Now this summer - we are going to spend a week on vacation with access to a chlorinated pool for a small condo complex (18 units). I intend to take my kids in again - 2YOs. Is it wrong of me to put them in these diapers plus a normal swim suit? I've seen the iPlay resuable swim diapers at target - but I don't really understand how they would be any better at containing pee. </p> <p>What are the social norms in this situation? haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diaper-stash-for-big-baby#post-2126054 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:35:37 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2126054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My ten pounder couldn't fit newborns. My 8.9 pounder wore newborns home from the hospital and then not again.<br /> I'd keep one pack in case return the other. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diaper-stash-for-big-baby#post-2126051 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:30:23 +0000 gingerbebe 2126051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Don't worry so much about sizing - most places let you do an even exchange even if your receipt is expired. I would just stick with 1s. If you are in NBs the hospital will most likely send some home with you. Our hospital gave size 1 Swaddlers standard but DS was so small they brought him NBs. So we took both sizes home. It might just be easier to go buy a small pack of NBs as you need them. </p> <p>All told my diaper stash was something like 1000 Swaddlers? I think it was 1 box of NB, 2 boxes of size 1s, 2 boxes of size 2s, 3 boxes of size 3, and 2 boxes of size 4s (because it was all they had during a sale). I ended up exchanging the size 1 diapers for NBs and then exchanged the size 4 diapers for size 1s. I supplemented the size 1s with a small package of Target brand because I didn't need a full box and we needed to buy an extra box of size 2s at some point. </p> <p>Most moms told me to stock up on size 3s as they were the size their kid was in the longest. We are on our 3rd box of size 3s now at almost 7 months and I think we may need to buy a fourth box before moving to size 4. I was told not to stock up on anything bigger than 3 because some babies don't need a bigger size than that for a long time or because at that point they may need a different type of diaper (i.e. Cruisers instead of Swaddlers). We're on our last box of my stash (aside from that one box of size 2s we bought) and I'm pretty happy with myself - the stash (including 2000 or so wipes) lasted about 7 months! I only spent about $150 on the whole stash when I was extreme couponing while I was pregnant so it was definitely worth it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diaper-stash-for-big-baby#post-2126026 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:45:13 +0000 Mamasig 2126026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Actually, I would skip newborns and only buy a couple of boxes on size 1s. DS1 never even fit in newborns. My boys zoomed through all the small sizes. If you're trying to buy ahead and create a stash, I'd get bigger sizes too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diaper-stash-for-big-baby#post-2126006 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:09:50 +0000 macintosh 2126006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Uh oh, now you guys are confusing me :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diaper-stash-for-big-baby#post-2125996 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:49:38 +0000 MrsH 2125996@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD was 7 lbs and we started with 1's. It is what they used for the week she was in the hospital too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diaper-stash-for-big-baby#post-2125985 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:32:19 +0000 gingerbebe 2125985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS was 6 pounds 15 ounces at birth and was in NB for 6-7 weeks. But he lost a lot of weight at the beginning and was a pretty slow gainer. The hospital sent us home with a ton of diapers and I think we went through 3 boxes of Swaddlers and had a few leftover that I used as overnight nursing pads, LOL. He was actually in size 1s the shortest amount of time - we were using size 2s for nights by 10 or 11 weeks. He was in size 3s for nights starting around 6 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diaper-stash-for-big-baby#post-2125929 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:52:23 +0000 Mrs. Coral 2125929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had an 8 pounder and the hospital gave us size 1 right off the bat. I used a 36 pack of newborns at home, but only because I had them. Size 1 fit better and is cheaper per diaper. </p> <p>I found that Pampers size 1 is much bigger than Huggies size 1. DD is 23" long, so a skinny girl. The Huggies fit much better now. Saving my Pampers stock for a bit later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diaper-stash-for-big-baby#post-2125927 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:50:48 +0000 ellewoods84 2125927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO was 7 lbs, 1 oz when she was born and they didn't even use newborn size in the hospital--just folded over the 1's. We had one box of newborns, but once we blew through those, we just went to straight to ones and folded them over! We never had any issues using size ones. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/diaper-stash-for-big-baby#post-2125925 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:48:45 +0000 Truth Bombs 2125925@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't put too much stock in the estimates. They estimated my LO would be 8.5 at birth and she was 6.2 and was in newborn diapers for a few weeks. </p>