Sisterhood of the Traveling Diapers
Written by Diaper Diva
I apologize for the excessive downtime dear Diaper readers. During the last few weeks we have sold our house, packed up said house, visited family over the holiday, moved to a new state and unpacked the new house. It has been a wild ride. We’ve only been in the new house for a week and a half, but it’s feeling more and more like home.
During the trip with all the traveling, I decided to (yet again) use diaper girl & myself as guinea pigs. Since all the visiting travel was to family members’ houses, I decided to travel with cloth (for a week & 1/2). I had a tally going but lost it in transit, however the rough estimate is that we used about 5 disposable diapers on diaper girl & 3 on diaper boy. Diaper boy (who just turned 3 last week) actually complained a couple times when putting a disposable on him (remember he only wears diapers to bed now), “I don’t want the paper diaper mama, I just like cloth diapers”. That’s my boy.
I wanted to do 100% cloth but I chickened out when it came time to head to the airport. I was flying solo with the two kids (diaper dad drove to the new place ahead of us) and needed the carry-on bag as small as humanly possible. So starting the night before (and whenever someone was babysitting for me) the kids wore “paper diapers”.
Anyhow, traveling with the diapers was really not that big a deal. I had one small suitcase dedicated to diapers (including my wipes warmer & hanging pails) & since I had a “home-base” at each location, it was a breeze. An etiquette tip for you though: some people may not like the idea of soiled diapers in their washing machine. Be sure to check with your host to make sure they don’t mind diaper laundry. If they do you can either gently explain the process & how you’re not dropping loads of poo into the washer or you can just let it go and use disposables to help keep relationships intact. No sense causing tension over something as silly as diapers.
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Hi, thanks for all the great information, it’s really helpful. I have an assortment of cloth diapers that I picked up at various thrift stores for cheap. I have tried them on my daughter a few times, and would really like to do cloth as much as possible. Just wondering how often you typically do changes during the day? It seems that she often gets wet after two hours and I end up having to change all her clothes, I think I need to sew up some liners to use with the diapers. It’s true that it’s hard to switch to cloth after using disposables for the past 2 1/2 years on my son. Any comments would be appreciated.
Hey Margaret, welcome to the world of cloth diapering! I know it seems like a lot (& well…frankly, it is, but I find it worth it), but I check my daughter’s diaper about every 30min & change whenever it’s wet. This ends up being approximately every hour (depending on how much she’s had to drink & the time of day). This is at home. If we’re out I make sure to add an extra doubler & check every 1-2hrs as possible (by check I mean i reach into the cover & feel the outside of the diaper to see if it’s wet). I have heard that people who use pocket diapers typically change every 2hrs or so.
Let me know if there’s anything else we can help you with!!