Travelling and Cloth Diapering

[teraze]

My six month old has recently started solids, and oh-my-goodness, his poops!  YIKES!  :)  Big and smelly, the best way I found to deal with my babe's soiled diapers is to take the offending dipe right out to our laundry room (in the garage), wash out the poop in the basin (followed by lots of hot water), and then store the rinsed dipe in a wet bag until I'm ready to wash a load.  So far, so good.

This spring and summer, my little family will be travelling a lot...what does everyone do when they're away?  I can't store that poopy dipe until I'm home, and I really can't picture myself removing the contents at someone else's home and then storing...  (I'm dealing with family and friends that sweetly "put up" with my cd-ing in the first place...)  :)

Thanks!

[Chamomile Girl]

Originally Posted by teraze 

My six month old has recently started solids, and oh-my-goodness, his poops!  YIKES!  :)  Big and smelly, the best way I found to deal with my babe's soiled diapers is to take the offending dipe right out to our laundry room (in the garage), wash out the poop in the basin (followed by lots of hot water), and then store the rinsed dipe in a wet bag until I'm ready to wash a load.  So far, so good.

This spring and summer, my little family will be travelling a lot...what does everyone do when they're away?  I can't store that poopy dipe until I'm home, and I really can't picture myself removing the contents at someone else's home and then storing...  (I'm dealing with family and friends that sweetly "put up" with my cd-ing in the first place...)  :)

Thanks!

How are they going to know?  Seriously, you need to employ the ever fun and exciting "toilet dunk" method when you are traveling.  Swish as much poop as you can into the toilet, pop into the wetbag and you're all good.  And if anyone gives you crap (pun, haha) let it roll off.

[alyadri]

My son has just started solids as well and I agree, the diapers are horrible.  I've found that the old dunk in the toilet method has worked wonderfully while we've been away.  I bring a few extra plastic bags to hold the rinsed dipes and then throw that into the wet bag. Then, when you open your wetbag it's not a huge smell permeating the room.   I feel as though if I excuse myself to the restroom after changing baby to do the dunking, nobody really knows what I'm doing in there  - - so it's not a big deal.  My family too only tolerates my CDing and they've never really questioned what I do with the soiled diapers. 

I hope this helps a little - I'm new to CD'ing so someone with more experience might have better advice for both of us

[Carma]

You could also use flushable liners, then you can just flush the solid poop with the liner and put the diaper in wetbag. I feel wetting the diaper makes it more smelly... I didn't use liners myself yet, but sofar the poop of my 12 month old comes off relative easy from the suedecloth/microfleece lined pockets  I have.

Carma

[parsley]

When we still had a kid in diapers we usually used flushable liners in our prefolds.  We were able to flush the poop and store the diaper for the rest of the trip.  We also used baking soda with lavender oil to deoderize when keeping dirty diapers with us for any amount of time.  I found letting the diapers dry was MUCH better for dealing with the smell.  

The main downside of this approach is that the flushable liners were somewhat expensive.  But as far as vacation expenses go, it doesn't even measure up!

[chel]

I do a combo of the flushable liners or I just try to wipe out as much of the poop with toilet paper. I'm not a dunker.

[blessedwith7]

Yep, I lay a flushable liner in the toddler dipes every time we go out of the house.  If it just gets peed on it gets washed in with the diapers and I reuse it.  It's so worth the cost not to have to worry about dunking (plus I'm spoiled with using our diaper sprayer at home).  Some toilets are just so gross like at a gas station and I could never carry around my 2 year old's poo!  We got the motherease ones but I'm sure they all do the trick just fine.

[teraze]

Thanks for the replies!  I love the opinions on dunking in a toilet - to swirl, or not to swirl.  I reject it out of hand, but seeing that some of you mommies are down with it is making me rethink.  Maybe.  :)

I like the liners idea.  We shall see!  It's nice to have options.

[TNmommyBFB]

Originally Posted by teraze 

My six month old has recently started solids, and oh-my-goodness, his poops!  YIKES!  :)  Big and smelly, the best way I found to deal with my babe's soiled diapers is to take the offending dipe right out to our laundry room (in the garage), wash out the poop in the basin (followed by lots of hot water), and then store the rinsed dipe in a wet bag until I'm ready to wash a load.  So far, so good.

This spring and summer, my little family will be travelling a lot...what does everyone do when they're away?  I can't store that poopy dipe until I'm home, and I really can't picture myself removing the contents at someone else's home and then storing...  (I'm dealing with family and friends that sweetly "put up" with my cd-ing in the first place...)  :)

Thanks!

I just plop the poop into a toilet, put it in the wetbag, and leave it til we are home.