Cloth Diapering On a Vacation
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| Sunset !! |
Kabini, One of my favorite destinations. The calm serene
back waters of Kabini dam , a resort on the river bank! It is one of the awesome place to relax ! All set for vacation and to cloth diaper my bub as always!
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| My kids enjoying the sunset |
What do you need?
Usually, I take lot of pocket diapers and few AIO’s for my
son when we are travelling. Pockets are stuffed with CB inserts or bamboo
cotton and I will have few flats for standby, wet bags. He is a light wetter
and any insert will work for him. This time, I packed FAP’s, few pockets,
Training pants and pant styled diapers.
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| That's my lil monkey helping me ;)! |
How many do you need?
It depends on how many days you travel, how often you plan
to wash and how big is your stash? If you are planning for 3 day vacation, you
may need around 15- 20 diapers assuming you will be able to wash them in
between. On an average, 1 year old baby needs 8 diapers a day! Smaller babies need even more.
I carried around 5 (training pants/pant style pockets), 2 FAP’s, 5 pockets stuffed with flats.
For the training pants, I had put a small hemp insert. The
small insert that comes with fitted diapers.
They could hold more and very trim!
As I carried pant styled diapers, I took my son to
the rest room as when possible, so he didnt soil his diapers much. I changed them every 4 hours even if isn’t
wet. I used FAP’s for the nights! He is
usually dry at night. He was unwell and
I couldn’t take a chance!
Washing:
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| Hand washing them in a wash basin |
I hand wash the diapers as when possible and line dry them. I
had forgotten my detergent and I ended up using the soap which was available in
the resort. I don’t have any problem with the diapers till now!! Thank God...
That doesn’t mean, you use some random soap and you wouldn’t have problems with
the diapers. I didn’t have an option . At the end of the week, I counted my blessings as
everything had gone wonderfully well and my cloth diapers had all come clean on
vacation.
A small video clip; how I washed my diapers in the wash basin.
Poopy diapers:
He did poop once in his diapers. I managed to clean the same
way which I normally do at home. I used the health faucet that is attached the
toilet and clean the poop.
Drying:
The biggest hurdle is the drying time of the diapers. In my
few vacations, rain god was so merciful showered his blessings and I ended up
using spoises :(.
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| Dried Diapers kept aside to capture a pic :) |
This time we had a towel rod which is kept near the swimming
pool. Yay!! I could use them to dry all my diapers!!!
Even otherwise, I usually carry a nylon rope and manage to tie them between
some rods or pillars and use them to dry my diapers! We had a nice sunshine
every day, diapers were dry quickly and we enjoyed rain every night! I could
reuse a pocket, CB insert and flats! Flats (receiving blanket turned to a flat)
was dry in less than hour.
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| Flats were the quickest to dry |
Finally, it’s OK if you decide to just use disposables while travelling. You don’t have to feel bad about it. A few days of using disposables
to save your sanity is totally worth it. You might just be downright excited to
get your little one back in fluff as soon as you get home but don’t stress a
few days of not using cloth. Even part-time cloth diapering helps to save space
in our landfills.
We’d
love to hear your story if you have successfully used cloth diapers while travelling! Lots of our readers are scared of it and always ask what everyone
else is doing!
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