Diaper-age child swimming

[elorapet]

I was reading some thread (CBR faq or something like that) that for safety, diaper-age children must wear plastic pants or swim diapers. Does this concern every resort or is this specific instruction for CBR resort pools?

and related to this, how much swim diapers costs and is Wal-Mart selling those? (Here in Finland we don't necessarily need swim diapers and those are also pretty expensive here, so I was thinking that if my DS1 needs such a diapers I will buy then when we arrive to Disney)

 

[anbouk]

They usually cost around USD $10 for a package of approximately 10-15 diapers. The Gift Shops usually carry them also if you happen to be staying on an on-site WDW hotel.

 

[cinmell]

I just paid $6.99 for a pack of 12 swim diapers.

 

[ducklite]

Wal-Mart, Target, and most grocery stores carry them year round in the WDW area.

Anne

 

[tnmom25]

They might be hard to find in November, I'd check about getting some online maybe.

 

[Allison]

This would apply to every resort.

 

[ducklite]

They might be hard to find in November, I'd check about getting some online maybe.

Here in Central Florida the grocery stores as well as K-Mart/Wal-Mart/Target carry them year round.

Anne

 

[Gretchen]

Hi Elorapet,
With regards to swim diapers-what the resorts and all public pools want is to keep waste out of the pool. Swim diapers, as all the other posters said, are availible in almost any grocery/walmart type store in Florida. If you can't find the disposable swim diaper as long as you have tight fitting rubber/plastic pants or a tight fitting diaper cover on your baby you will be fine. I've used a diaper liner with a diaper cover too. Just remember a couple things: disposable swim diapers aren't meant to hold in the poop (sorry!) for very long, so you need to change that baby asap! Also, don't use disposable diapers in the pool, they swell and explode. Yuck..
Have a great trip-
G

 

[jpeka65844]

Also...swim diapers are designed to really only hold poop (and solid poop at that....) If you put a kid in a swim diaper and let him go about his business out of the pool, he'll pee through it superquick! As a consequence, I'm one of those tacky parents that waits until we get to the pool to put them on. YES, my child is publicly but DISCREETLY naked for a few moments. I don't want to take the chance of him peeing all over himself (and me) prior to getting in the pool.

This isn't much of a problem at Disney (where you're fairly close to the pools) but at home I have to DRIVE to pool and NEVER put him in a swim diaper before I leave the house.....




Denice T.
Olathe, KS

 

[PudgetteD]

Be aware that you'll probably pay a lot more for them @ WDW than @ Wal-Mart or a grocery store. Our K-mart has them on clearance now with all of the other summer stuff. I think I saw them for $4.99/pkg of 12.

 

[elorapet]

Thank you all for you answers!
I will add the swim-diapers to our shopping list. we need to go to wal-mart anyway before we arrive to our resort. (so far I have learned that it is a good idea to buy some rain-pochos and glowing sticks for my DD6 from wal-mart instead of from disney resort or from MK )

 

[monorailsilver]

As a consequence, I'm one of those tacky parents that waits until we get to the pool to put them on. YES, my child is publicly but DISCREETLY naked for a few moments. I don't want to take the chance of him peeing all over himself (and me) prior to getting in the pool.

I do that too. I usually change my child in the back of my SUV before we get to the beach though.

 

[MommySiobhan]

This time last year before we went to WDW in August, I found them on clearance in Target for $2.24.

 

[Cool-Beans]

All the WDW resorts want the kids in swim diapers and unless there is some kind of fluke and they happen to be out of them, every Wal-Mart, grocery store, drug store will have them. The WDW hotels carry them, too, but you'll probably pay more.

You can probably order them online if you want to have them before you leave.

 

[Pirate Me]

You can try Garden Grocer too and have your order come to your resort. I searched Swim on their website and they had. About $8.99 for 10-12, or $0.75-90 each.

 

[doconeill]

Just for more information, I believe that swim diapers are generally required in any publically accessible pool (public in the sense of not at a private, personal residence) in most if not all states by the health code requirements of that that state.

We here in the U.S. are super paranoid about such things. NO POOP IN THE POOL!

(Now envisioning a Caddyshack incident at a Disney pool...)

 

[Gretchen]

Yup, you are correct, Doconeill-It's under the local health department. Here in CT, we have to shut down the pool, super chlorinate and run the filter 1 full cycle. Full cycle meaning that all the water has been filtered once. Usually 8 hours at our Y. Caddyshack
Elorapet, have fun on your first Disney trip!
G