Mothering › Forums › Archives › Pregnancy Archives › March 2010 › traveling with cloth diapers
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

traveling with cloth diapers

post #1 of 10
Thread Starter 
my little family is going on a long weekend trip to visit family for mother's day and I'm trying to figure out what we'll do about diapering while we're away from home.

I've already decided to simplify my life by just taking disposables for the plane but I can't decide if I should pack up our whole cloth diapering world and bring it for when we actually get to my parents.

any opinions are welcomed!
post #2 of 10
I did a raod trip when DS1 was 4 months old, we did disposables. I did a road trip when DS2 was 10 months old, we did disposables. Trips can be crazy enough with little kids, and nursing on demand, and the other things that you forgot you forgot for us it was easier to get some 7th generation.
post #3 of 10
Quote:
Originally Posted by ciga View Post
my little family is going on a long weekend trip to visit family for mother's day and I'm trying to figure out what we'll do about diapering while we're away from home.

I've already decided to simplify my life by just taking disposables for the plane but I can't decide if I should pack up our whole cloth diapering world and bring it for when we actually get to my parents.

any opinions are welcomed!
It's not really that hard to travel with cloth if you want to (and if your mom is okay with you washing them in her machine) but I usually just use disposables.
post #4 of 10
We're leaving for a week tomorrow and we'll be using eco sposies while we're gone. I would have to pay to check a whole other bag if I brought the cloth, not to mention cleaning while traveling. Just not realistic.
post #5 of 10
While I have gone camping with cloth diapers (the campground had a little laundry machine), it's definitely easier/less hassle to use disposables. We generally use disposables for the actual traveling (if it's more than a few hours), and then what we use at our destination depends. If I'm going to my aunt's (3 hour trip), I'll use cloth if it's a short enough trip we won't have to do laundry, but disposables if it's longer. Going to my mom's (12 hour trip), I'll use disposables for the drive but cloth at her house. I find cloth is more reliable for us though, all the sposies we have tried leak, so we err on the side of using cloth more often than not. (Though last time we tried a new natural brand that wasn't 7th Gen and they worked better.) Going by plane it would really depend on how much other luggage I had and whether I was by myself or with DH.

We're going on a 12 hour trip in a week and a half (with a full day stopover that has no laundry) and plan to do sposies for the drive/stopover, and cloth once we're there. I'm not sure what we'll do with our older daughter though. She's technically been out of diapers since 23 months, but because of allergies she still has accidents, and when they happen they happen a lot. So if we brought cloth and she had accidents we wouldn't have enough to last the 12 hours + stopover. But if we bought sposies (assuming she would even wear them), we could end up with a lot of extra diapers lol. I'm erring on the side of sposies though, because it's hard to keep her totally dairy free while traveling. (We just discovered the allergy very recently, and honestly we're not super strict about it when at other people's houses yet, because it doesn't make her sick at all and people are still getting used to it.)
post #6 of 10
I use seventh generation when we travel... and when we're out for the day... mostly because they hold more while keeping baby dry so it's not as big of a deal if distractions come up and I can't change the baby as often as I'd like...
post #7 of 10
Disposables are certainly easier... but.. I guess I've never been on a trip long enough to warrant their use. I've always just brought cloth diapers. For trips, I think flats are totally the easiest thing in the world. They're so trim to pack (while I love fitteds for certain times, they're just bulky) and wash up easy peasy
post #8 of 10
We've done both. We are going away this weekend, actually, and using cloth. We bring a ginormous wet-bag for the soiled ones. We've gone away for weeks before, using cloth, but we were staying with family and used their washer. If we are going somewhere for more than a few days, and there isn't a washer available, then we use disposables.
post #9 of 10
Thread Starter 
thanks for the input everyone

We're still on the fence. My husband really wants to bring all the cloth but I'm kind of fantasizing about a weekend free of all that laundry. We will be at my parents so we'll have access to a machine but then I have to think about bringing non-perfumey detergent too because my mom only rarely buys the kind we buy.

Has anyone used Tushies disposables?
post #10 of 10
Tushies is the wood pulp + cotton one, right? We use Broody Chick, which are similar, and I like them a lot better than Seventh Generation, though I prefer Seventh Generation's wipes for when we need disposable wipes. I've heard really good things about Tushies and they would be my second choice after Broody Chick (which I don't think you can get outside of BC unless you had them shipped).
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: March 2010
Mothering › Forums › Archives › Pregnancy Archives › March 2010 › traveling with cloth diapers