This morning I went into Autumn's room after she woke up. The stench threw me off so much I looked in her crib to see if there was a pile of something there. Thankfully, there was not. So I passed her off to her Daddy, told him her room stunk, and went to take my shower.
Before we left the house, I ran back to her room to get something else and it still stunk. Keith blames it on the Diaper Genie, because the diaper from last night wasn't twisted. Every time we empty the contraption, it untwists itself after the first diaper or two until, I assume, there's enough diapers for one to anchor on the bottom as the rest twist around. For those of you who don't know, after placing a diaper in the Diaper Genie, you twist it shut. This creates a long string of diapers that resembles a string of sausages, for lack of a better analogy. This does help keep the diaper pail stench down, but when you're working with bodily excrements, nothing can keep it totally away once you pop the lid.
I've seen another diaper pail, the Diaper Champ. I'm never real good with it, and always have problems getting the diaper into the cavernous area below. I can only assume, though, that this is similar to the genie in that it keeps the smell away when closed, but makes you want hold your nose when emptying the holding area.
Most times, Autumn's room just smells like a baby. It's only immediately after a change that it has some lingering stench. So I give a lot of credit to the Diaper Genie for that. However, when we empty the genie, God help us. You don't want to get your nose in the other end, and that's even with the diapers wrapped up like little sausages in what's supposed to be odor-eating plastic. I guess that's why there's Lysol and Febreze.
But this all makes me wonder, do parents use the same diaper pail with the second child?