Hip sling, bum baggage, waist packs–no matter you name the favored small baggage that you simply put on round your center, I like them. Fanny packs are my favourite sort of on a regular basis bag, making it no shock that it’s the sort of diaper bag I seemed for when my first baby arrived.
There are a number of diaper-bag-style hip packs on the market, however some appeared too costly for with the ability to carry solely the naked necessities. I wished one thing that would double as my very own purse and nonetheless maintain a number of child requirements, like further 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, just like the Kibou.
After greater than a yr of utilizing it, I can affirm: This bag is the whole lot I hoped for.
Practical Pockets
The Diaper Pack has a big middle 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 achieve the wipes storage within the middle pocket. It’s useful, however I often simply take out the wipes container. I discover wipes to be an enormous trouble on their very own with out some further cloth 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, nevertheless it’s not annoying. If something, it makes the pad a bit simpler to seize. While it won’t be essentially the most sanitary place to stow one thing, the open again pocket is the place I’ll throw my cellphone or keys in a pinch.
Inside, the middle part is way bigger than your normal fanny pack. It has card slots on one facet 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 middle pocket makes it a bulkier bag, however that’s additionally what makes it so nice for a diaper bag. It nearly seems like a small backpack, however one I can entry from the facet or hip as a substitute 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—perhaps your keys and some bank cards, however nothing else. Those baggage concentrate on having a super-slim profile and being actually designed for less than 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 varieties of diaper baggage tended to be.