So, you are sitting around getting fat waiting for your baby to arrive. Your wife tells you that you need to get off your butt and start getting ready for the baby. What do you do?
Go buy some groceries and while you are there pick up a pack of diapers. I recommend the Wal-Mart generic brand. They are consistently the cheapest and they work as well, if not better, than some of the fancy diapers. A few days later, when you find yourself out buying flowers for your wife, pick up another pack of diapers. Pretty much anytime you walk into a store that sells diapers, throw a pack in your cart. Especially you dads-to-be of multiples.
Make sure that you spread out your purchases over several different sizes.
I recommend against buying preemie sized diapers. First of all the goal is to not need premie sized diapers so why buy them and mentally talk yourself, your wife, and ultimately your kids into accepting the premie mentallity. Our kids were born just after 37 weeks and weighed 6lb 7oz and 7lb 3oz. No premie diapers for us. Secondly, if you do have premie(s), you have no idea how small they will be and how long until they will fit into the normal smallest size. Sometimes you get lucky and it is just a week or so. If you must, buy one package and tell yourself that it is for the kids to use dressing their dolls in a few years.
Make sure you store the diapers in a dry, easy to access place. We threw most of them in their closet.
Don’t forget to pick up diaper wipes now and then. You do not EVER want to run out of diaper wipes.
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Sage advice.
Someone just mentioned that on my blog
Oh yeah. I’m back on my diet because I am getting fat. I was in a bit of denial until I realized my favorite pair of jeans were my favorite because they fit.
Lil’ Duck was 5lbs and change when he was born and the newborn diapers worked ok. It isn’t like they move around a lot at first either. Plus, if you have a premie, you can send someone to grab diapers before you leave the hospital (the hospital might even give you a bag, we got two huge bagsful of newborn diapers from our hospital and by the time we finished those, we were on to the next size).
It isn’t long before they are in size FIVEs, ah.
Oh yes, and in the absence of diaper wipes (not that anyone else would ever run out
), a wet washcloth or rag works just fine, rinse it out and toss it in the laundry. Like everything else in there isn’t already covered with poop…. 
At least you still have a pair that fits. Mine are starting to do that thing where the zipper doesn’t lay flat. Time to get to the gym more often.
The washrag trick would work fine as long as you could handle still using them in the shower knowing where they had been. The place you cannot afford to be without wipes is a public restroom. You (meaning I) always find out there are no wipes after the kid is already laying on the changing table. Then you have to figure out how to get paper towels wet without your kid falling from the table or getting poop on everything.
Make sure there are wipes in your diaper bag.
Or just use cloth diapers! Then you never run out, you just need to do a load of laundry!