I will be doing a quick photo road trip with my 9-month old son (goodness gracious I need to do a 9-month post) and my father. My babe has been very fortunate not to have a ‘sposie on him and will not now as well. We are not flying and we will only be on the road a couple of days. Our travel and diapering experiences will be pretty easy. For a preview here are some images and scenarios from a trip we took into the mountains when he 6-weeks old.
Here is a scene from the condo we stayed in a for a few days last August. We traveled with a storage tote, clean diapers, diaper covers, a large dry bag, wipe formula (in the spray bottle), jojoba oil, a towel, and the usual contents of his diaper bag.
I took over the desk in our bedroom and laid out the towel to use as his changing pad surface. I emptied the contents of the storage tote around the desk to create his changing station. I put the dry bag (dirty diaper bag) in the tote. Dirties went in the tote (as well as some dirty clothes in a separate laundry bag). At the end of our trip dirties stayed in the bag in the tote and I packed wipe formula, oil, and towel in the tote. The few extra diapers went into clean clothes we had left over.
Easy peasy! My husband, my son, and myself also travel in a small car – a Honda Fit so we did not have a ton of room for extra stuff. The tote with our luggage and stuff for our son packed very well into our vacay.
At 6-weeks it was super easy because he was only on breast milk. At 9-months I foresee shaking his poo out into the toilet as well as swishing around diapers in the toilet if they do not shake out. Other than that we’ll do about the same system.
If our trips were longer or via flight we would use the laundry facilities to wash and most likely air dry.