Hip sling, bum luggage, waist packs–no matter you name the favored small luggage that you just put on round your center, I really like them. Fanny packs are my favourite type of on a regular basis bag, making it no shock that it’s the type 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 looking round, I stumbled upon the Diaper Pack from Béis. Whereas it seemed a little bit cumbersome, I used to be excited that it had a little 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 verify: This bag is every little thing I hoped for.
Sensible 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 succeed in the wipes storage within the middle pocket. It’s useful, however I normally simply take out the wipes container. I discover wipes to be an enormous trouble on their very own with out some extra 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, but it surely’s not annoying. If something, it makes the pad a little bit simpler to seize. Whereas it may not be probably the most sanitary place to stow one thing, the open again pocket is the place I will throw my telephone or keys in a pinch.
Inside, the middle part is far 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 normally don’t use the cardboard holders, since my husband and I alternate utilizing this diaper bag, so I throw my pockets inside.
That enormous middle pocket makes it a bulkier bag, however that’s additionally what makes it so nice for a diaper bag. It nearly looks like a small backpack, however one I can entry from the facet or hip as an alternative of getting to tug it off my again each time my child is thirsty.
Tremendous 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. These luggage give attention to 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 actually 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 kinds of diaper luggage tended to be.