daycare and CD's

chayer227 · August 2011

Colby is being watched today and Friday at our house. But, tomorrow and beginning next week, he's going to daycare outside our home. Crying

I've never had to count how many diapers we go through, so I don't know how many to pack for daycare. How many do you pack?

SBTibbs · August 2011

We've only been CDing since DH was 1 so I'm sure the answer is different for newborns, but we send 4 or 5. They usually use 3 or 4, while he's at daycare for about 9 hours. I also keep 2 disposables in his backpack in case of emergency.

MainelyFoolish · August 2011

How many diapers do you have and how often do you do laundry? There's your answer.

It's been a while since my DD was that little but I'd guess you'd need 6 to 8 diapers a day. Better to overpack than to have a diaperless child.

mrscjwatts · August 2011

I pack 4 and T is 16m. She is there from about 830 til 445. Usually I get 1 clean diaper back at the end of the day. My DCP provides disposables, so if we run out, they will provide a back up.

We started CD with BG 4.0 at almost 7m old. I think I was packing 5 or 6 for 730am to 445pm and not getting any back. So, I would go with 6 (or even 7) for the first few days or week, then you can see what you are getting back that is clean.

shuga_23 · August 2011

Abe goes through 5-6 from 7:30-4:00.

grahamsm3 · August 2011

nevermind

MA&CB · August 2011

We used to send 6, and that was always enough.

MrsSweetpeaMagee607 · August 2011

The boys were already one when they went to DC and we used Flips, so we would send 2 covers and 4 inserts... for 6:30 to about noonish... and would get a couple of inserts and none of the covers back.