Baby Trend Diaper Champ in Blue
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Baby Products Reviews of Baby Trend Diaper Champ in Blue
Customer Review: good for only few months
Summary: 2 Stars
Well, I thought it was an OK product at first. It does seal out the orders reasonably well. However I do not recommend it, because after 6 month of use, the rubber part on top is coming off, making it impossible to use .
Since I have read about this problem in other reviews, I do not believe its a fluke. Notice that most positive reviews are from people who have not had it very long. I will replace it with a stainless steel trash can. Save your money, do not buy this product, because it will break after few months .
Customer Review: Works reasonably well, with a bit of attention
Summary: 4 Stars
Let's face it folks: poop stinks. Anyone tells you different is selling something ;)
I've seen the over-rated Diaper Genie at PEPS-mates' places and have not been impressed. The proprietary bags are a big minu$, and a poop-collector is nearly the last thing in the planet I want to stuff my hand down into on a regular basis.
We originally bought a tiny hinge-lid pail, then immediately realized that it didn't have a useful capacity. We bought the Diaper Champ because it appeared to offer convenient physical and odor management for diapers. We're reasonably satisfied now that we've ignored the printed instructions. Said directions stress that one MUST feed the collection bag through the ring under the lid, then clamp the lid down. When we did this, diapers often got stuck on the way down, and the bag didn't fill well, resulting in the unit needing to be emptied or compacted multiple times per day. Disregarding those instructions and instead lining the pail with a normal tall kitchen bag *outside* of the ring made a world of difference: the pail takes a lot more before the burgeoning infant effluent forces a change. Sure, it stinks when you open the lid to do that -- IT'S FULL OF P00P! Anything short of a Seal-A-Meal is going to do that, and I think we can all handle that for the three seconds it takes. My guess is that the use of the ring is directed mainly because this model touts that it can be used with "any" plastic bag, and if one uses a small plastic grocery bag, it'll be prone to slipping as it won't reach the bottom. If you want to change the bag 5 times a day, by all means use these bags -- otherwise, go with tall kitchen bags.
How to additionally minimize clogs: drop the used wipes inside the diaper, then roll it up and use the adhesive tabs to hold the ball closed. With a Seventh Gen stage 4, the result is roughly the size of a baseball. This avoids the wipe being snagged in the lid's piston, and the dense, round bundle packs well in the pail for better utilization.
The biggest thing I'd change would be to make the pail 6-12 taller so that it could better fill a bag for less-often changes and fewer bags used.
Customer Review: Not great for cloth diapering
Summary: 2 Stars
We bought this because we heard it can be used for cloth diapering as well as disposables. It works well for disposables, keeps smells in, uses any bag etc - all the good things people say. But for cloth, we found the bin to be too small and would fill up fast. And the cloth diapers have a way of jamming in the flip top part - so we'd end up just opening the whole thing up every time we had to change a diaper which completely defeated the purpose. If you're using disposables, this this is great. But if you're cloth diapering, a regular garbage can with a loose fitting lid works much better.Customer Review: Very Stinky
Summary: 2 Stars
I found the Diaper Champ to be VERY smelly. Not only did odors leak out, but when you take out the bag you are assualted by STANK. Just like when you take out a regular garbage bag, you have to pull up on the bag with it still open and the smell is awful. I much prefer my Diaper Genie II.Customer Review: Not such a champ!
Summary: 2 Stars
I don't review products unless I think they're really great or a waste of money. The Diaper Champ is a waste of your money. While not having to buy refills for it and being able to use trash or plastic shopping bags is convenient, that's the only pro of this pail. It's okay in the beginning when your baby is on breast milk/formula and not much else. But once they start eating and really pooping, not only do you deal with odors every time you change the bag, you deal with them EVERY time you add a diaper to the pail. When you pull the handle to dispose of the dirty diaper the scents of everything inside come floating out. My son's room constantly smelled of dirty diapers. I bought the Diaper Genie II when my son turned a year old and I'll never use anything else again. The refills hold a lot of diapers and there is NO ODOR EVER!