If you have one of these wee stinkers still in nappies, or know someone who is about to embark on a nappy marathon with a newborn, then read on. You could win an excellent solution for you or a friend.
I only have one kid still in nappies and I think (hope) we are about to embark on toilet training. I say hope because I am entirely over dealing with massive number twos in a nappy!
When they were babies I had a nappy disposal bin for their tiny stinky little nappies. It was fine, but it could get a bit smelly and I used to cringe at the thought of tackling the dreaded nappy snake. You know, the one where you have to tie a knot in the end and carry the limp fetid boa constrictor of nastiness out to the rubbish? Yeah, well that got kind of old. After a disaster where I hadn’t noticed that the bag had run out and opened the door to an avalanche of stench, I gave up on it.
What follows was either trudging out to the outside bin (in the rain, sleet and cold) or forgetting to and being assaulted by a nasty ninja nappy leaping out at me at the next change time.
- Isn’t it crazy what you can find on Google?
Just recently I’ve had the opportunity to trial the Munchkin Nappy Disposal system. I agreed to write about it because I am tired of CrashBoy’s huge nappy bombs and too lazy to go out to the outdoor bin when it’s raining (hello I live in Melbourne). Also I liked that it uses baking soda, a natural deodoriser to keep the stink away.
Test Subject – Munchkin Nappy Disposal System
The Munchkin Nappy Disposal System has a natural solution to smell, can be easily operated with one hand, and is very sturdy. The unit comes with 3 bags which can each hold up to 25 newborn nappies or about 12 larger CrashBoy bombs! Refill bags come in packs of 10. You can fill up the baking soda cartridge with ordinary baking soda. The combination of the baking soda and a neat twist action seals the bad and the smell.
Test Conditions
One week of CrashBoy’s stink bomb nappies, three incidents of being rolled down the hallway, two of being sat on like a seat and numerous attempts to storm the fortress (open the lid and door).
Because CrashBoy’s nappies are quite large, I decided only to put the stinky ones in the unit. Generally there are only 1-2 a day so it took a week for it to fill up. Even so, I only got my first nasty whiff after 7 days had passed, and that’s only when I was pushing a nappy in. Once it closed you couldn’t smell it. Generally you’d empty it before this happened. I was surprised at how well the unit dealt with the smell.
Emptying the unit was so simple, no more horrid nappy snakes to touch or tie knots in! The built in handle snaps together, sealing in the smell and you carry it out to the bin. Too easy! Here’s a wee video of me doing a one-handed demo of how to use it!
Test Drive
Test Results
Pros
- Natural deodoriser, easy and cheap to refill
- Practically indestructible! If CrashBoy can’t breach it, nobody can!
- Very secure. I couldn’t figure out how to open the lid the first day and it took CrashBoy about a week.
Cons
- The plastic refill bags with their hard plastic handles add to my disposable nappy guilt.
And before anyone starts slaying me for using disposables over cloth:
- I really wanted to use cloth but both babies were so tiny they leaked through the leg holes
- I got too used to the ease of disposables and I had bigger issues to worry about so resigned myself to saving the environment in other ways. You do what you can right?
So, would I buy this unit? Yes I would! It makes my life easier and motherhood more fun (ie less stinky) – ticks my boxes :)
How do I get one?
The Munchkin Nappy Disposal System is $79.99AUD / $89.99NZD and refills (10 bags) are $21.99AUD / $24.99NZD.
Buy online at www.babynest.com.au or www.babycity.co.nz and also sold in Target, Baby Bunting and Toys R Us in Australia.
or you can win one!
Giveaway
I’m giving away one Munchkin Nappy Disposal System valued at $79.99AUD/$89.99NZD
To enter you need to be a member of Crash Test Mummy so:
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Then tell me in the comments your worst nappy disaster story.
The entry that makes CrashHubby cringe the most will win. Beware, he’s dealt with some pretty big disasters himself, so make it good!
Conditions:
The giveaway is open to residents of Australia and New Zealand only.
Entries close on 31st January 2012 at 5pm AEDT / 7pm NZT.
Winners will be selected on the strength of their answers. The value of the prize is $79.99AUD/$89.99NZD. The winner/s will be contacted via email within 24hrs of giveaway closing. If the winners do not respond within 7 days the giveaway will be re-drawn. Your answers may be published on Crash Test Mummy in future posts. Disclaimer: This is a post sponsored by Munchkin, who also supplied me with a complimentary unit to trial. My opinions are my own and can’t be bought.
Linking up this Tuesday with Jess at Diary of a SAHM for IBOT. Please check out who else blogs on Tuesdays – there’s always a good read.
Laney x
Ah, memories – I recall when miss 3 was about 1 or so, we went to stay with some (childless) relatives at Xmas. We were sitting down for a formal lunch with 6 or so adults and miss 3. She was in her highchair having a try of everything, half way through my meal I noticed shed spilled something on her chest/belly, so took her off to our room to change her. That’s when I realised the stain wasn’t food, she’d done a number 3 and had poo coming out the top front and back of her nappy! It was so insane, there was soo much, i wasn’t sure where to even start! So I opened the door and casually called for hubby – this was a 2 person job! I think he nearly fainted when walked in. Wipes just weren’t cutting it and it was everywhere – so into the shower while dad reassured our hosts that we were okay without going into too much detail – they were still eating after all. Fresh nappy, clothes and she felt much better – but i didnt eat the rest of my lunch. I haven’t thought about that for ages, hoping my 7 month old baby boy doesnt have plans to outdo big sis in the gross nappy story stakes…
OMG! That’s a goody ;)
For me my worst horror story would be when Campbell was about a month old. He had had an upset tummy and we changed him time and time again. At About 2am he had me up again with yet another poo. In my tired state I started to change him and just as I lifted his bum to wipe him he decided he wasn’t quite done and needed to poo again. Poo was EVERYWHERE. All hubby could do was laugh, before he realised it was all over our bed, wall and most of all me. All I could do was cry. The clean up was horrible, mainly as it was 2am and no one wanted to be up. Campbell felt much better after that!
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I would have cried too Beck! Not long till you go another round of midnight nappy changes ;)
Ohhhh the big blowouts ! they are the absolute worst…. we were visiting friends and my wee guy thought it would be funny to soil his nappy then take his nappy off and run around with a dirty bum…. or the times he sticks his hand down his nappy and comes in with his face covered in it! its horrible
All I can say is I’m so glad we’ve never had this situation! Touch wood!
Just the other day Mr10mths had a rash so bad it was starting to bleed(have since found he is allergic to certain nappies) he had the biggest runniest poo I have seen, and I have 3 under 3y.It was halfway up his back & front. Trying to clean it all off him without hurting him, with his help I might add, was a nightmare. Finally managed to get the nappy off put it down while putting a new nappy & heaps of cream on, when Miss 20mths comes along and Throws said nappy all over the floor. So gross I was gagging
Oh, I feel your pain. Helpful hands are not always so! I had two under two. Three under three must be exponentially more difficult!
I escaped without much damage with my first child, but the second one certainly made up for that! Lots of poo explosions, the worst one was one that came out every opening of her clothes, out the sleeves, out the feet, out the neck, everywhere. Just threw her into the shower clothes and all and then stripped her slowly from there, it was even in her hair, GROSS!
Mine I guess isn’t quite a “nappy” disaster as I had just taken it off when my child proceeded to poo all down my front (was holding her facing outwards) EWWWWWWW!
I’m not entering because I only have one in nappies now, and it doesn’t bother me too much.
People shouldn’t judge you for using disposables. You do what you need to, and what works for you. I love cloth nappies and used them for the first three, but it got too hard after that. I’m sure you look after the environment in other ways. :)
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I’m about to start toilet training my last as well (hopefully) but have shared the link with friends who have newborns :)
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I hope my girl will be able to start toilet training too. Good luck to both of us haha
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We have 2 in nappies still. I started with #1 in cloth, but must say, my use of cloth is pretty limited now… a gradual decline. I think this is almost inevitable with 3 under 3. Am hoping that Mr 2 will be toilet trained soon. He did his first full wee on the toilet this morning in fact (and told us with enough time to get there). So, in the next few months I hope to be down to one in nappies again, during the day anyway.
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Oh I remember the day like it was yesterday, it was my birthday I turned 30 (again) ;-) I had one child home sick from school (so no catch up with friends for a coffee) my DARLING little man 1 1/2 at the time woke from his nap (oh the smell I still remember the smell) so I enter the room with caution and a peg!!! turn the light on OMG its everywhere!!! A number 3 explosion!!! So I pick up my stinky DARLING and head straight to the shower clothes and all !! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mummy!!
One evening when my hubby and I were eating dinner on the living room couch while our then 1 year old was toddling around having some nappy free time. My husband and I were deep in conversation when we both noticed how quiet Master 2 was.. looking down and seeing him bending down under the table we wondered what he had discovered. ‘Asher, What have u got?’ I asked inquisitively. At this moment he arose from under the table with a gleeful poo filled grin. Wait WHAT. Yes a POO filled grin. It seems he decided to taste test this foreign subject that emerged from his backside. I screamed hysterically and raced him to the bathroom to wash it off, stopping every few minutes to hold back vomit. Words cannot describe how horrendous the smells was and how hard it was to brush the poo out of my sons teeth and hair. The image still haunts me!
P.s. i have a 2.5 yr old and 5 week old both still in nappies :)
My worst is when we were traveling up north, when my daughter was 1 and a half and my son was only 3 – 4 months (they’re very close together!) & we’re traveling up and all of a sudden we smell this smell wooof into the front, on a highway we couldn’t turn off any where until we found this – what looked like a truck stop!” so go into the back and it hits us , it stinks. My daughter had a runny tummy – (which she obviously didn’t have before the trip or we’d have been prepared!) haha, so we have to lay her in the boot of the car and change her, we went through SO many wipes – were in the middle of nowhere with cars zooming by! we clean her up and then we put clean towels down on her car seat , but you can still smell the smell.. we then turn to MR gorgeous sleeping 3 month old Riley – who… he too, has done a biggggg poo too…. Luckly, he was still breastfed so it wasn’t toooo smelly! but. BIG! so we’re in the boot with him too changing his nappy! haha, we couldn’t stop laughing, Thank goodness for nappy bags? & lovely mother in laws who chucked everything in the washing machine when we got there! haha. The smell stayed with us though for the remainder of the trip – 2 or so hours! ekkk!
I still think my worst nappy disaster was the first nasty poo I changed when lufflump was a day or so old. One of my bestie’s was there helping me while I cried. It was the black, egg smelly type of newborn poo which made me gag so much a nurse got me a spew bag. I’d changed one nappy in my life before that and it had been a wee nappy. He managed to kick his feet into the poo getting his hospital tags in it. I just couldn’t get the nappy off or on, I had no idea what to do. I was a mess, crying and thinking I was the worse mum in the world. The start of so much to come!
We’ve had many blow outs but that one sticks in my mind. It was such a horrible episode and feeling but it’s shown how much I’ve grown as a mum. I had no experience with babies at all yet lufflump survived and turned out pretty good if I may say so myself ;)
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hehe when miss3 was little we co-slept and she got the dredded gastro, while i was laxing thinking this is nice, the rumbling and gurgling started :( well only had enough time to move daddys arm so he was awoken to the biggest pool of funky chunky nasty cm’s from his face EW!
Having triplet girls is tough… but having three triplet girls with the runs with noone around to help is almost impossible! I had the girls on the ground and was halfway through changing one of them (Ashleigh, who had green… stinky… runny like liquid…. stinky…. gooey…. gone through bed & clothing… oh and did I mention stinky?…. gross poo!) when I ran out of wipes and had to go to the other side of the room to get some. Of course one of my other darling daughters (Tess) decided that this would be a GREAT time to roll for the first time… face first into the dirty diaper! By the time I cleaned up her face/arms and changed her clothes, Ashleigh had wriggled around and her green goo was all over the floor and up the wall (thank goodness they weren’t on the move yet!)… *sigh* I got to spend my afternoon changing beds / changing outfits / washing walls / washing floors / soaking clothes & beds as well as doing loads of washing…. I’ve never hung up so much washing!
With the girls now more mobile – I’m quite worried as to what their poo-antics will be next!
This looks like a great system! Your review was very thorough and well articulated. Hopefully we’re at the end of our nappy journey now… I’ve just started toilet training #4. Wish me luck!
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Our little solid food eating 9mth old was playing in the kitchen while we cooked dinner, my husband turned and walked to the pantry. Wondering what he had on his foot and looked down to see he had step in poo. Our daughters nappy had come undone and was half of so her poo went all over the kitchen floor, over my husbands foot and over our childs hands. It was the most disgusting experience we have had yet.
oh my worst was last week.. I kid you not it beats all other bad nappy experiences and I have three kids and worked in day care before that..
We went to our friends house to use their pool while they were away. HB was away but my sil and brother were with me so they helped look after the 3 kids.. about an hour into having a great swim my sil starts shouting to me that Bubbaroos nappy was leaking.. he was in the spa pool, which is very warm. I look over and the aldi pool nappy was leaking from every hole. floaties were surfacing and the warm water was smellng pretty bad..
I grabbed him out and had poo water dribble all over me, had to rip the sides of the nappy open and then the very watery, very smelly nappy pretty much ran all over the concrete, my legs, everywhere… everyone was dryretching and extremely unhelpful. .I had to clean the concrete, pool and myself up.. I swear I smelt for days..
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They say Poos in babies are 10 and 10.. 10 in one day or none for 10 days.. MissC went 11 days before she pooped.. (thanks to Drs suggesting prune juice before medicine)… and she pooped, and pooped and pooped.. the green slimey goopy poop drizzled out of the side of every single nappy, she filled them up faster than I could change her. And the smell was all so gutwrenchingly awful we could smell it on our clothes.
Two days later she cut her first tooth.
Got to love teething poop!
Currently going through teething poop with MasterS who has had 4 poops today very similar to MissC’s teething poop, atleast this time he wasn’t clogged up for the last 10 days. But his bottom is red raw :(
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Yesterday I was at the beach changing Baby J from his normal nappy to a swimming nappy when a round brown blob rolled out onto my leg. Baby J had just had a gingerbread man and I thought that it was a bit of gingerbread that had fallen down his nappy. When I squished it between my fingers and gave it a bit of a whiff I discovered otherwise.
Ah the joys.
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We were driving in the car when baby had a bid blow out. Only I didnt realise at first when we got where we were going I was distracted and just picked up bub put him on my hip then I looked in the car seat and realised there was poo all over the seat. when I looked down at him he had poo all over him and of course now all over me. It was horrible to clean but worst thing was I had a change for him but not me, was stuck in the stinky clothes all day.
Our stinkiest nappy story happened this weekend. We were about to fly from Brisbane back home to Adelaide when I thought of doing some extra shopping at the DFO. My ever suffering husband The Farmer, decided to carry the Worm rather than using the Pram or pouch. Worm had gone 10 days in between poops but there was no reason why she would chose to go then, other tan the fact that I only had 2 wipes left in my bag.
She did the biggest poopsplosion, it soaked through her clothes & onto hubby’s shirt quicker than anything.
I admit the Farmer handled the situation rather well. We briskly walked to the change facilities to review the damage. Farmer started to clean Worm up & was doing a great job until he used up the only 2 wipes that I had left! What to do he thought, next thing I know Worms pants are been wet & used as wipes too. It all ended well though, worm was clean & stink-less for the 3hour flight home.
I’ve now got a bag of wet, poopy clothes soaking in napisan & I had to buy Farmer a new shirt to fly home in!
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Two weeks ago, Master 9 month old was happily walking, or should I say stumbling along in the lounge room. I looked at him and thought, ” I don’t remember giving him chocolate……………….” as he started to put a brown coloured palm into his mouth. I did my best Ricky Pointing impersonation and dived for his little hand as if it were a ball, hit by Sachin Tendulkar. Oh my god! Did I get him in time, ran to the sink, cursing myself for not being quicker. Washed his legs and privates, changed his clothes and did a thorough inspection of his mouth. I decided to clean his mouth out just in case and then gave him some water to drink.
I came back into the lounge room, only to realise that the chocolate that wasn’t really chocolate, had also become a new pattern on my brand new rug, which Master 2 year old was closely inspecting. “Stop!” I yelled at him. Made a mad dash to my room and put Master 9 month old in there, grabbed Master 2 year old and put him in his room, and grabbed for the cleaners and cloths. I got all the stains out, but I can’t look at the same rug again in the same light. So now it’s rolled up in the garage, like a skeleton in the closet.
I’m not entering because I already have one of these – I won it last year in a blog comp in fact and I LOVE it!! Such a brilliant brilliant invention!!
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Thanks for the endorsement Louisa. I love it too. The baking soda bit is fantastic.