Hip sling, bum baggage, waist packs–no matter you name the favored small baggage that you just put on round your center, I really like them. Fanny packs are my favourite form of on a regular basis bag, making it no shock that it’s the form of diaper bag I seemed for when my first little one arrived.
There are a couple of diaper-bag-style hip packs on the market, however some appeared too costly for having the ability to carry solely the naked necessities. I needed one thing that might double as my very own purse and nonetheless maintain a couple of child requirements, like additional garments and a bottle. After searching round, I stumbled upon the Diaper Pack from Béis. While it seemed a bit cumbersome, I used to be excited that it had a bit extra room (and a greater price ticket) than different choices, like the Kibou.
After greater than a yr of utilizing it, I can verify: This bag is every part I hoped for.
Practical Pockets
The Diaper Pack has a big heart pocket, with two exterior pockets. The entrance exterior pocket is rectangular and zippered to carry diapers, and it matches three to 4 diapers comfortably. That entrance pocket additionally has a pass-through cutout to succeed in the wipes storage within the heart pocket. It’s useful, however I often simply take out the wipes container. I discover wipes to be an enormous problem on their very own with out some extra material between us.
The again exterior pocket is open-topped and is designed to carry the included altering pad. I don’t discover that the altering pad matches into it completely after a yr of my folding it; it is extra sq. than rectangular and stands out the highest, but it surely’s not annoying. If something, it makes the pad a bit simpler to seize. While it won’t be probably the most sanitary place to stow one thing, the open again pocket is the place I’ll throw my telephone or keys in a pinch.
Inside, the middle part is way bigger than your customary fanny pack. It has card slots on one aspect to carry three bank cards, a key hook, and a mesh pocket to stash these wipes. I often don’t use the cardboard holders, since my husband and I alternate utilizing this diaper bag, so I throw my pockets inside.
That giant heart pocket makes it a bulkier bag, however that’s additionally what makes it so nice for a diaper bag. It nearly appears like a small backpack, however one I can entry from the aspect or hip as an alternative of getting to drag it off my again each time my child is thirsty.
Super Stash
Photograph: Beis
So many diaper hip packs can match solely wipes, diapers, and a altering pad—possibly your keys and some bank cards, however nothing else. Those baggage deal with having a super-slim profile and being really designed for under diaper modifications. I’ve tried one among these and felt it was simply too small to essentially be helpful. Even my husband (who retains his pockets and keys in his pockets, so he would not want room within the hip pack for his stuff) didn’t like how small these sorts of diaper baggage tended to be.
