DH and I are planning a vacation this fall and I want to take my CDs along. It is about a 4 hour drive from home and we'll be gone Monday am-Saturday pm. We're going to visit two different places and the first hotel we're staying at has a washer/dryer. I'm planning to wash diapers Wed evening at the hotel. DH is acting like its going to be SO MUCH trouble. He said he's not doing laundry during his vacation and doesn't want to carry around a bunch of stinky diapers. I told him that I'll be the one washing them and we have wetbags so it will be fine.
I was planning on taking BG 4.0 but I also have prefolds and a few fitteds. BG 4.0 is the easiest choice right? I was thinking that if I take prefolds I could rinse them in the toilet every night and hang them up to dry.
Have you ever taken your CDs on vacation? Any tips or suggestions? LO will be 11 months.
Re: Have you taken CDs on vacation?
I have, we took them to Lake Tahoe last summer because we were in a condo that had a washer/dryer. We're not bringing them on this summer vacation, but only because I don't want them to take up space in our luggage (no free checked baggage, boo!) I'd never do it if I had to go to a laundromat, but hotel laundry seems okay. If you're like us, you're home fairly early to put LO to bed, so you've got that time in the evening anyway. We have an XL hanging wetbag, and when it's zipped, we never have a problem with smells.
Remember to bring detergent! I somehow forgot that last time we took them to the ILs'.
Yup I take them on every vacation! If you have access to a washer I would take whatever ones you want. If you don't have access to a washer I would looking into taking hybrids, I love the GroVia system, or use flats w/ covers which can be hand washed and dry quickly just hang drying.
I used disposables 1 time when DS got thrush at 3 months old and vowed NEVER to use them again. I ended up with blow outs every single time he pooped. I would rather hand wash flats than deal with that again lol
I'll probably take disposables, just in case. But I HATE disposables. And I feel like taking disposables would actually be more of a hassle because you either have to find a trash can or carry around a dirty disposable (dirty cloth > dirty disposable). By taking away spontaneity, do you mean having to find time to do a load of laundry? LO's bedtime is usually 7-8pm, so we will definitely be in for the night early enough for me to do a load of laundry.
Hmm, it will be a tough choice. Pockets are my favorite but prefolds would be easy to just rinse out in the evening and let hang dry.
We used Flips with the disposable inserts with success on a recent vacation.
You could use some sort of disposable or disposable insert Monday-Wednesday, start using your regular cloth Thursday and wash when you get home Saturday.
This for us, too.
Last weekend we went camping in a pit-toilet only campground...disposables all the way. When I visit my parents I'll be bringing cloth.
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I haven't used disposables since DD was 2 days old. We've vacationed a lot in that time too. Hotels, roadtrips, camping, staying with family, we've done it all. I've never had a hard time making it work. I've always managed to find a place to wash and dry them. The only place I ever had "issues" was one cottage we stayed at had water that smelled strongly of sulfur. The diapers got clean, but smelled like sulfur so I just stripped them when we got home. It didn't effect their use long or short term.
We've also road tripped with a wet bag of dirty dipes in the car and didn't notice any smell. Maybe I jjust found it easy because DH was supportive of the choice. You can buy disposables at any corner store, I just don't get what your DH is so afraid of.
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