A day (weekend) in the life of Otis, Shannon and Justin AND
Scout, and Riley and Oliver
That is the list of all of us in a truck; 3 people and 3
dogs. We headed to Iowa last weekend to help move our horses there for the
winter.
Grandma and Grandpa Pitt came to pick up the
horses and we had to bring them their boat so on the road we went. 365 miles, and a 7 week old in a car
seat……this should be fun.
I got everyone
at home ready and drove into town to pick up Justin and hit the road about
noon. I got the little man all in his carseat and ready but then we had a meltdown
and needed a quick change even if on the tailgate, it works.
We got on the road, and wouldn’t you know 30 minutes on the
road and Otis was hungry. I had tried pumping while on the road a couple of
weekends ago and giving him a bottle but I’m not sure if it was the position in
the carseat or what but he kept choking. This trip I wasn’t going to put up
with that so we had to stop so I could nurse him.
I set up our diaper
changes with a wetbag in the back of the truck as my wet/dry bag is not huge and would just be
tricky. Then we utilize the driver’s seat as a changing station and then air out our used diapers
on the headrest of the passenger front seat.
This road trip included about 5 stops for feeding and diaper changes an
extra 3 for extra changes as I have a man who doesn’t like to be wet. What is normally at 7 hour trip took us 10.
Uffda!
Thank goodness for my mother in law who let me do diaper laundry. I tried to stay out of her way and not impose
on her laundry so I did mine overnight now I have totally switched to overnight
laundry. I LOVE this new routine
compared to my starting laundry in the AM. I can now have my diapers on the line about 45
min after waking up. This has cut out almost all dry time in the dryer other
than a little fluff to get them soft at the end of the day (or when it’s
raining J).
Things I didn’t love about cloth diapering on the road:
- Having diapers all over the car airing out.
- Not having a diaper sprayer.
Things I LOVE about cloth diapering on the road:
- I can actually succeed at diapering since I apparently suck with disposables and get leaks all the time when I’ve tried them.
- Having part of my home routine on the road-makes me feel more comfortable.
- Being able to coordinate super cute diapers with his outfits when we are on the road visiting people.
Overall the weekend went really well and I had diapers clean and dry when I got home thanks to my new night diaper routine!!
Continue to follow Shannon & Otis on their journey into cloth diapering each week throughout this series of My Baby's First Month in SoftBums!
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