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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Written by Diaper Diva
If you’re using cloth diapers, you’re going to want to use cloth wipes. I’ve heard some people say they use disposable wipes, but I really can’t figure out why. First, you’d have to throw them away separately. Second, they stink at wiping up poo! If I’m at home & using a (rare, I promise it’s rare!!) disposable diaper, I still use a cloth wipe even though i’ll have to ‘dispose’ of it separately, b/c I really hate the inefficiency of disposable wipes. However, i do use them in my diaper bag for on the go. I don’t carry around a spray bottle, so it’s a necessary evil.
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Cloth Diaper Pail Liners
Written by Diaper Diva
I used a diaper dekor+ with regular trash bags as my diaper pail for nearly 2 years. Until a few days ago. It would’ve been easier to use a different pail, but I wanted my pail in the bathroom (easy access for poopies) & we have a small one. The dekor was the only option (plus it’s nice looking & holds in odors great). It’s really a terrible pail for cloth diapers. It only fit one day’s worth of diapers…maybe. I also didn’t like to throw plastic bags out that often, so I reused them until they had holes. Yes, it was kind of icky & stinky (not in the pail but transporting the bag to & fro the laundry room), but it worked.
A few months ago my dekor broke. A long time ago the foot pedal went on me, but recently the door to remove the bag cracked. It still technically worked but it was a daily irritant as the door fell off the hinges at the slightest touch. For months prior, I had been eying some zippered pail liners that could be used as a “hanging pail”. However, I knew I would want 2 and I could not fathom spending $50 on essentially a diaper pail. Read more
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Written by Diaper Diva
Since one of the main reasons I like to cloth diaper is to save money, I am irritated when I discover some new gadget I “need” to make cloth diapering easier. They are known as cloth diaper accessories. Here’s a few just off the top of my head:
- Diaper Pail Liner (I own & love so far)
- Diaper Sprayer (I do not own & do not want to want)
- Wipe Warmer (thought it was frivolous, recieved as a gift, and now think it an essential part of cloth diapering)
- Wet Bag (I own & love. plastic trash bags often have holes in them & I do not want to wash out an entire pail)
- Special Cloth Wipes (I do not own or want, I use dollar-store baby washcloths)
- Wipes Solution (I do not buy, I “make” my own)
Do you need them? NO. Are they nice to have? Usually.
I’ll discuss them more in length individually
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