The High Price of Your Newborn’s Diapers

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

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The Cost of Newborn Diapers

I always thought that newborn diapers were more cost efficient than the other sizes, because you got so many more diapers per package. (For those of you who haven’t had a baby, the way diaper packages work is that the larger the size of the diaper, the less you get per package, even though it’s the same price.) Of course, those savings mean nothing if you go through a lot of diapers, which is exactly what we were doing.

My little angel was was a pooping and peeing machine, and we were going through more diapers than I thought possible for something so small. And we weren’t just going through the newborn diapers, either - we were going through everything. This baby was 1/15 my size, and creating twice as much laundry.

I knew going in to this, theoretically, that having a baby was expensive. But the things I was thinking of were a little further away, like needing to get braces or going to university. I didn’t think that a little baby would consume or cost that much. As it turns out, way more than I thought.

So now, I’ve turned into that guy. You know, the guy that clips coupons, but not only for newborn diapers, but for other things as well, anything that will help us save money. Then I get all my little coupons in an envelope and head off to do the shopping; what’s happened to me?

And I’m actually going through the grocery store flyers and making a list before I go, something I never did before I had a baby. The real reason I do this? Not to save money (although that is a plus) or help to get the money for all those newborn diapers. No, it’s because I’ve been running on less than three hours of sleep for going on three weeks now, and I’ll probably forget everything I came for if I go without a list.

And then I’ll just come home with newborn diapers. Packages and packages of newborn diapers, because I know at least that we need those, even if I’ve forgotten everything else we need. So I’ve started making my list, and I wait anxiously for the flyers to be delivered each week. In order to make sure that I’m getting all the best deals, I go thorugh all the flyers and make a list of what I need to get from each store

Still, I’m trying to commit every last moment to memory, depsite the lack of sleep and extra strains on the pocketbook. Because I know in a few short years (or heck, even a few months from now) I’ll come across one of those newborn diapers and be amazed that my child was ever small enough to fit into them. So I want to treasure these moments now, when my little child is small enough to still fit into those teeny-tiny newborn diapers.