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Baby Week 34 – A Request To Enfamil

December 5, 2008

An interesting side effect of being pregnant or being a new parent is that companies love to give you free samples of stuff.  I can remember getting a free diaper bag filled with Similac supplies, and Enfamil regularly sent me cans of formula or coupons.  Pampers just sent me a diaper, and I’m sure I’ll get some samples from Huggies and Luvs again sometime soon.  It’s great – all that baby paraphernalia can get expensive, and who doesn’t love free stuff, right?

It turns out, there is something free that I don’t love.  Enfamil Next Step.  I wish they would just leave me alone!  I’ve gotten no less than 4 coupons for it in the mail in the last month.  Last week we got a sample canister of it.  Enfamil advertises Next Step as a “milk based formula designed for your 9-24 month old.”  Well, I don’t have a 9-24 month old.  I won’t have one for another 10 months – so your free stuff is not helpful!  When Xander was 9 months old, I asked our pediatrician about it – he said that unless Xander was underweight, or needed some other nutritional supplement, there was no need to switch from regular formula to “Next Step” formula.

Additionally, once kids reach that 12 month mark, you can give them regular milk – whole for the first year, and then reduced fat after that.  Since milk usually hovers around $3 a gallon, and formula costs at least $25 for a can, unless there was some excellent medical or developmental reason to keep your kid on formula, who can afford (or would want) to do that??

So Enfamil Next Step, I’m all set – I’ve got plenty of coupons and free samples that I will never use.  I can understand why you’re having trouble marketing this relatively useless product, but I promise you – I’m not going to be trying it out anytime soon.  How about sending me some free samples of your infant formula instead?  Now that would be useful!

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Xander Week 51 – LUVS Second Attempt

September 12, 2007

bear-hug.jpgA few weeks ago a representative from RocketXL contacted me, asking me to try the new LUVS Bear Hug diapers. Since we haven’t used LUVS since Xander was in Size 1′s, I said sure I’d give them a shot. A few weeks later, a free package of LUVS showed up on our doorstep (hooray for free diapers!) I was eager to try out these new diapers, and the following night, we began our second attempt with LUVS.

One of the biggest tests for us is whether or not Xander will pee through the diaper and thus onto bedding in the night. Often we will try to change Xander’s diaper around 9:30 pm to prevent a leak in the middle of the night. The first LUVS diaper we put on Xander leaked around 3:00 am. It was Zach‘s turn to get up and change Xander, and though I was half asleep, it seemed to take longer than it should have.

Zach and Xander finally returned, and Zach was not pleased. He first attempted to figure out where the leak had occurred in the diaper, as he knew I was preparing to write a review. He then changed Xander into a fresh LUVS diaper, at which point Xander promptly peed out of the top – the absorbent material didn’t even slow down the stream. Zach immediately removed, that diaper, chucked the LUVS diapers across the room, put a fresh Huggies diaper on Xander, and proceeded to clean up the floor for 10 feet where Xander had managed to spray. Needless to say, Zach refuses to use LUVS diapers again.

The new “hug” technology does seem nice – it’s very similar to the stretchy material around the Huggie tabs. Maybe for girls the blue strip of absorbent material does actually stop leaks, but Xander has proved very effective at getting around this material in the LUVS diapers. It was nice to see Blue’s Clues instead of Winnie the Pooh for a while, as the pictures get old on the same diapers after a while, but Xander doesn’t ever notice.

So, I know LUVS is trying to drum up renewed interest in their new diaper technology, and there do seem to be some slight improvements, and the price is of course better than Huggies or Pampers, but the cost savings does not outweigh the added irritation. If anyone else has had any experience with these diapers, I’d love to hear about it!

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A Diaper Review

January 24, 2007

Xander on Changing Table

My friend Chloe recently asked me about my diaper review, and in my Diaper Bag Review, I promised to comment on diapers when I had finally decided on a brand. Xander has now grown from the newborn swaddler diapers in size 2 diapers! In poundage, this is almost double birth weight – from diapers that hold an 8 lb newborn to diapers that contain a 15 lb baby. Throughout the four months, Zach and I have sampled a number of diaper brands. We kept going back to the Huggies diapers.

There are a few features that Huggies has that the other brands don’t. My favorite feature is the elasticity of Huggies. The tabs that attach the back of the diaper to the front of the diaper are stretchy, so they fasten near the middle of the diaper, about at the belly button. It feels like there is a tighter, more secure closure this way, instead of the tabs on diapers such as Luvs or Pampers, which fasten closer to a baby’s hips.

Next is the “leak lock” feature that Huggies loves to advertise. Around the legs of the diaper, there are two layers, one inner blue layer (the “leak lock”) and an outer white layer, the actual outside of the diaper. When you put a diaper on, you just have to make sure that the legs of the diaper are pulled out, ensuring that the inner “leak lock” layer can hold everything inside.

The Luvs diaper has a blue leak lock strip on it, but you have to make sure that you’ve got the strip higher than the leaky baby parts, or else the baby will leak right out of the top of the diaper (I’m assuming this isn’t as much of an issue for little girls. Pampers doesn’t seem to have any blue leak stuff on the insides of their diapers…

Finally, the quality of the material used is generally nicer. The Huggies diapers are soft, and feel almost like cloth, where the other brands tend to be more stiff and plastic feeling. Huggies has been put to the test, and we have had far fewer leaks with Xander in Huggies diaper. This diaper has shown that it can handle 8+ hours worth of containment without leaks. The other diapers can sometimes meet that mark, but not as consistently. So, as Xander grows into bigger and bigger diapers, we will be buying Huggies, and not any other brand.

It should be noted that different diapers work better on some kids than on others. For example, we have a friend who has 2 children – with one baby they were able to use the generic WalMart brand diapers without any problems. The other baby needed name brand diapers to survive without leaks. So, I cannot say that Huggies would work great with any kid, but with our kid, it is definitely the diaper that won our contest.

On a side note, we have found that we start to experience more leakage as Xander starts to outgrow the diaper. It’s sort of a subtle change, and it’s not like you get a notice that it’s time to buy the next size diaper. It took us about a week of frustration and lots of leaks and outfit changes before we realized that we needed to upgrade from Newborn to size 1. We’ve recently started putting Xander in size 2′s, and that transition was much smoother, since we were aware of the signs. None of the other mothers I know (my mother, my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law) and talk with frequently warned me about this, so I wanted to pass on this little tidbit of information. Since my mother and mother-in-law used cloth diapers, I’m guessing they didn’t have as much experience with the disposable kinds. Don’t expect a review on cloth diapers anytime soon – I definitely don’t have the energy or dedication to use cloth diapers!

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