Hip sling, bum baggage, waist packs–no matter you name the favored small baggage that you just put on round your center, I 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 appeared for when my first youngster arrived.
There are a couple 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 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. Whereas it appeared slightly cumbersome, I used to be excited that it had slightly extra room (and a greater price ticket) than different choices, like the Kibou.
After greater than a yr of utilizing it, I can affirm: This bag is all the things I hoped for.
Sensible 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 helpful, however I normally simply take out the wipes container. I discover wipes to be an enormous problem on their very own with out some further 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 proud the highest, but it surely’s not annoying. If something, it makes the pad slightly 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 customary 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 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 facet or hip as a substitute 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 baggage concentrate on having a super-slim profile and being actually designed for less than diaper adjustments. I’ve tried one in all 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 kinds of diaper baggage tended to be.