Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Cloth Diapering on Vacation
It was my intent to exclusively cloth diaper on vacation. I did not. However, I did not exclusively use disposables, either.
I had only six pocket diapers and I'm still not comfortable enough with wool (nor did all my cute little outfits allot for wool)...
We started out on the trip with a BumGenius. And, if I knew I wanted him to wear it for a while, I'd stuff it with an Indian Prefold. But, most of the time, I just used the BG inserts.
In the hotel, our shower head was not detachable, nor was the water pressure very strong. I'm a diaper sprayer, so I wasn't too wild about this.
Also, it took me forever to find the laundry facilities and I couldn't stomach the idea of putting his little diapers in those "nasty" machines. It was only for 2.5 days and then we'd be at Mom's so when I was in the room for a while, we used IPFs and wool. When I was out and about, he had on BG and I had 'sposies in the diaper bag, just in case.
I was fortunate enough to only have one poopy cloth diaper and that was on the last day. I had to do a toilet shake and I was glad it was the only one. (except for at Mom's where she also had poor water pressure for spraying the diaper)... He managed to poop in the 'sposies, every time.
When his BGs were wet, I'd double rinse and wring with a hotel handtowel and let them air dry (which didn't take long at all). I'd smell them before using (we're talking nose in the diaper) and they smelled fine, so we reused.
I really brought way too many diapers, but I'm glad I brought too many than not-enough.
I didn't even have to buy more disposables. I had some left over when I last bought diapers on March 19. (I found the receipt the other day.)When I got to Mom's I was able to wash all the dirty diapers and I was good-to-go until we got home.
So, I have to say that after only a month of cloth diapering, my first time away from home was pretty successful!
To quote London Tipton, "Yay me!"
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Comments (2)
You crack me up with your quotes! I could totally hear London Tipton's voice too. OK, I have to admit... I watch it late at night when everyone is asleep. LoL
That's great. I tried cloth diapering out with #3, but he was older and I didn't have enough to do it exclusively, then as he got older I stopped. With #4, I was determined and got enough from the beginning to exclusively cloth diaper. I used sposies when he was a newborn... I knew he'd grow too fast to make buying cloth worth it. But from the time he was about 2 weeks old on... nothing but cloth.
He's just now to the stage that I gotta remove the poop before washing. I didn't give him any solids til he was 10 months old, so it was still all breastfed poop. Just threw it in the wash.
Now I put a liner in the dipe if I think he's gonna poop... I don't always catch it, but this morning I did! yee haw