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One of my favorite tips for the baby’s room involves purchasing a stack of inexpensive hand towels.  We did this kind of by accident, but they have proven to be one of our most often used and flexible items.  We primairaly use them on the changing table on top of the full changing pad cover as shown in the picture below.

I purchased several changing table pad covers before G arrived, but I had no idea how often they would get dirty during the day.  A squiriming baby (think feet kicking everywhere including into the diaper) can manage to get poo on a changing pad cover very quickly.  Add to that the fire hose peeing you get with a boy and the changing pad cover can get dirty just about every time you change their diaper.  Well, if you don’t want to do a load of laundry every couple of hours to wash your only two or three changing pad covers, enter the hand towels.  They cost just a few bucks, versus $10-$20 for a changing pad cover, so you can keep a stack of them by the changing table for the price of one cover.  They can be quickly removed when they get dirty and they are far easier to pull off and put back in place then the entire cover. This is very important when the baby has just dirtied the changing surface and you still need to get him cleaned up and put a clean diaper on him.  It would be impossible for me to hold the dirty baby while simultaneously pulling off the changing pad cover, replacing it and doing it all before he pees again.  With the towel, I just slip it out from under G and go about the business of changing him on the changing pad cover already underneath.  Then I replace the towel after the diaper is on and the table is ready for the next time you need it.

The towels are compact and a stack of 5-10 will give you some breathing room on laundry since you have more of them to use before you run out and need to wash them. We found ours at Target and you can get any color to coordinate with your nursery (they have tons of colors).  We also use them for especially big spit up incidents and for tummy time (cause spit up happens on the activity mat too), and I’m sure the list of uses will continue to grow as G gets more mobile.

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