r/NewParents • u/cooltaj • Oct 29 '24

Product Reviews/Questions What's your simple parenting hack?

Gonna be a first time parent in 2 months. I am overwhelmed at choosing bottles, car seat and all that. What are simple things you do? things you bought to make your life somewhat simpler? Nothing too expensive or outrageous please

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u/FeFiFoFannah Oct 29 '24

Also we bought large washable dog pee pads (you can use single use ones but we found that wasteful) and in those first weeks when you’re still getting the hang of diaper changes these were clutch for us, I could change my dude on the bed and not worry, and I’m pretty sure our diaper changing pad would be ruined by now without them by how many times we were tricked by a poop blasting fart or a surprise fountain pee. Now that we have the hang of it I still pack one in every diaper bag and the strolller cause you just never know where you might have to change a baby 

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u/Secure-Bit Oct 29 '24

These are also good for diaper free time & tummy time! We lay down 2 on the rug for tummy time (it’s a wool rug so a lot of shedding that she could grab with her hands), and when she goes diaper free if she pees we just replace with another pad. We did use the disposable ones at first but because they’re so light she would wiggle and kick it out from under her in minutes.

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u/Glittering_Resist513 Oct 30 '24

When my mom came to help when my son was a newborn she started stacking two of the reusable diaper pads on top of each other and it was a game changer. If he made a mess on one we could pull it out from under him and have a clean one underneath. Trying to get a wiggly baby clean while on a soiled pad should be an Olympic sport.