Swim Diapers - Dumb Question

They are used instead of the diaper but don't put them on until you are ready for the water because they don't hold pee at all. They are really made to contain poo.

I bought a reusable swim diaper from my cloth diaper store. Paid $10 and because of the way my daughter is built I never had to buy another one! It's always better to have a back up but I never got around to buying one since I had a few leftover swim diapers (disposable) from her brother that I'd kept around.

Walmart has reusable swim diapers for 5 bucks. Love those over a disposable.

instead of the diaper. They don't swell up like regular diapers do. The work great!

LOL, I was just reading the other responses and it reminded me of something. My son once put his pull-up in the toilet. By the time I found it, it had soaked up all the water in the toilet!!! I put it in the sink to "drain" and it didn't...that thing weighed a ton!!!

not a dumb question. :) the are worn instead of the diaper.

Instead of a diaper. Regular diapers can't absorb the amount of water babies will encounter while in a pool, and the regular diapers actually burst when they've taken on too much liquid. I've seen one burst, it's not pretty - they're filled with these little gel-like spheres that go EVERYWHERE. Although it is pretty impressive how huge a regular diaper can get just before it bursts. :) Just be aware - the swim diapers are really designed to hold in poop. They don't absorb liquid, which is why they don't burst. Meaning when the baby pees, it pretty much runs right out of the diaper. So that myth that baby pools are filled with pee isn't really a myth at all.

On a side note -- BECAUSE swimmers do not contain liquid, they are GREAT for getting little boys to start potty training. My twin 2 1/2 yr old boys love the characters on the swimmers, and HATE the feeling of pee going down their legs... and we began seriously potty training the day that my DH was watching them and thought the swimmers were diapers. Fortunately I got home very soon after he had changed them, to find one of them very unhappy that he had pee running down his leg! So I checked the weather and my schedule for the next three days, and we are now in Day 2 of intensive potty training... with only 1 minor accident each today ;-) Thanks to my DH for unwittingly finding a way to make it happen!

Its' just a replacement of a regular diaper. Regular diapers disintegrate and clog the pools filtration system.

Instead of a regular diaper. For added protection, use plastic pants over the swim diaper.

I had the same question when my son was still in diapers! But instead of asking anyone I tried to figure it out myself and ended up concluding that they went over the regular diaper, to keep it dry. Because they did not contain pee, so I was like, then why is it called a diaper if it cannot even retain pee? I was not even thinking of poop.

It always did keep that regular diaper pretty dry so there was no diaper explosion, from what I saw. So my swim-over-regular worked for me. We only went to spray parks, never underwater.

But, I think the next time I go to a spray park I won't encourage my kid to splash in the water puddle too much. Ew, the fact that the pee is designed to go right through it totally gross! I'll never forget that now.