What's a girl to do?
The cat is out of the bag. Our girl is a little chunky. Sure, she weighs at two months what she should at four months, but I just like to think of her as advanced. Though judging by her other abilities she isn't as advanced as her size would warrant.
Diapers, for those that do not know, come in sizes based on weight. We've gone through many sizes newborn (below 8 pounds), 8 - 10 pounds and now we've been struggling to keep her in her 8 - 14 pound diapers. These diapers do not fit her so well anymore. These ranges don't really make sense. She isn't 14 pounds yet you have to really struggle to get them closed. Last night we decided to switch her to the larger diaper size. I went to the closet and took out the larger size but instead of something like 14 - 20 pounds it was 16 - 24 pounds. Well, our sub 14 pound daughter was swimming in these larger diapers. I never took fluid dynamics but I'm pretty sure her blasts were not to be contained by a diaper that didn't even rest against her thigh much less fit snugly. How could this have happened? What am I supposed to do for the next two pounds? We decided to double wrap her. If one diaper is good, two must be better. She looked a little silly with two diapers but the fit was tighter and the mess less likely. After putting her onsie and sleeper back on my little baby looked like she had some "junk in her trunk."
After a little sleuth work I figured out what happened with our diaper ranges. We switched brands. There appears to be some sort of vendor lock-in with diapers. They make their own size ranges overlap but they don't overlap with the ranges of the other brands. We just didn't pay attention to our weight gap. Carrie is going out to the store today to see if she can find some diapers to hold us over until our baby gains two more pounds, which, judging by current trends, should be Thursday.
Ever the cost conscious parent we were just buying whatever was on sale and not paying attention to brand. Especially since we don't yet know which brand is better, there is no reason to pay top dollar just because a diaper has a picture of Elmo on it. Not like my kid even knows what or who Elmo is. Nor does she have the ability to peer down and check out what cartoon character might be plastered just below her navel. I really can't understand why they bother putting these things on the diapers. I'm sure it raises the cost of the diaper as they have to license whatever they chose to put on there. One brand even had John Lennon quotes on the diaper and images drawn by the former Beatle. I'm sure Yoko is raking in the dough on this one.
It would make more sense if these diapers carried product endorsements. Think of the advertising potential. Instead of marketing characters to the kids, they should be selling products to parents. Logos of Desitin or Vaseline could adorn my child's bottom instead of Looney Tunes characters. I wouldn't mind diapering my baby in Budweiser diapers if it kept the costs down.
Diapers, for those that do not know, come in sizes based on weight. We've gone through many sizes newborn (below 8 pounds), 8 - 10 pounds and now we've been struggling to keep her in her 8 - 14 pound diapers. These diapers do not fit her so well anymore. These ranges don't really make sense. She isn't 14 pounds yet you have to really struggle to get them closed. Last night we decided to switch her to the larger diaper size. I went to the closet and took out the larger size but instead of something like 14 - 20 pounds it was 16 - 24 pounds. Well, our sub 14 pound daughter was swimming in these larger diapers. I never took fluid dynamics but I'm pretty sure her blasts were not to be contained by a diaper that didn't even rest against her thigh much less fit snugly. How could this have happened? What am I supposed to do for the next two pounds? We decided to double wrap her. If one diaper is good, two must be better. She looked a little silly with two diapers but the fit was tighter and the mess less likely. After putting her onsie and sleeper back on my little baby looked like she had some "junk in her trunk."
After a little sleuth work I figured out what happened with our diaper ranges. We switched brands. There appears to be some sort of vendor lock-in with diapers. They make their own size ranges overlap but they don't overlap with the ranges of the other brands. We just didn't pay attention to our weight gap. Carrie is going out to the store today to see if she can find some diapers to hold us over until our baby gains two more pounds, which, judging by current trends, should be Thursday.
Ever the cost conscious parent we were just buying whatever was on sale and not paying attention to brand. Especially since we don't yet know which brand is better, there is no reason to pay top dollar just because a diaper has a picture of Elmo on it. Not like my kid even knows what or who Elmo is. Nor does she have the ability to peer down and check out what cartoon character might be plastered just below her navel. I really can't understand why they bother putting these things on the diapers. I'm sure it raises the cost of the diaper as they have to license whatever they chose to put on there. One brand even had John Lennon quotes on the diaper and images drawn by the former Beatle. I'm sure Yoko is raking in the dough on this one.
It would make more sense if these diapers carried product endorsements. Think of the advertising potential. Instead of marketing characters to the kids, they should be selling products to parents. Logos of Desitin or Vaseline could adorn my child's bottom instead of Looney Tunes characters. I wouldn't mind diapering my baby in Budweiser diapers if it kept the costs down.
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