Monday 28 February 2011

Travelling with cloth nappies

I get a lot of people ask me if I take my cloth nappies on holiday with me - yes I certainly do! I'm actually on holiday in Turkey as I type, this is Edwards first holiday abroad so he experienced his first flight and first glimpse of an aeroplane. I've been planning what to bring with us for a few weeks, obviously the washing machine wouldn't fit in my suitcase (no matter how hard I tried) so I needed to work out how I would be washing nappies whilst away. I am using a wrap system with a combination of pre - folds and disposable nappy pads. I purchased the nappy pads from a high street store (if you'd like the details feel free to email me) and they can also be found on the internet. My plan was to use the disposable pads whilst travelling and then switch to the pre folds when we arrived. All I can say is so far so good! Although I'd rather not change a dirty nappy in an aircraft bathroom ever again lol!
We arrived in Turkey at around 9pm local time - after a 6 hour flight delay :( I'll admit Edward coped very well with both the delay and the flight, to get him to sleep we had to put Daddy's earphones on him and play some of his favourite songs! He wore a fleece sleep suit to travel in as it would be ideal if there were any leaks, thankfully we didn't get any :)
We had our welcome meeting from our rep yesterday, this is something different for me as I usually book independantly and haven't experienced many welcome meetings. We were 'welcomed' along with another family who have a 5 month old daughter, we got around to asking the rep where we could find baby essentials at a reasonable price locally. She advised us on the best places to go and where to avoid for certain things, my Mother in law then proudly commented that we wouldn't need nappies as Edward was in reusable nappies - the other couple looked at me as if I were bonkers!! I'm not, I promise!! I'm never sure how I should respond to the ''You have lost it'' look when I tell people about using cloth nappies, any ideas? If you have some good one liners on how to respond please let me know :)

Well I'm off to explore some more with Edward, I'm taking him for a walk in my Mei Tai in the evening sun!