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Diaper Bag Essentials + Hacks
To avoid the never ending pit that can become the diaper bag here’s the essentials and some hacks we stick to for our diaper bag.
My husband picked the diaper bag as he more often takes the kids out and about as a stay at home dad and wanted something that he was also comfortable carrying. We love this backpack diaper bag from tactical baby gear.
Since we are in the stage of baby and toddler, this is geared more towards the early baby stage.
What’s in our diaper bag?
Diapers
- Diapers – a good rule of thumb is a diaper per hour you will be away from home.
- 1 pack of baby wipes – we love these ones and save money with Amazon Subscribe and Save.
- Our favorite diaper back hack, Dog poop bags – the best for dirty diaper garbage on the go!
- Diaper changing pad – we love to just use dog potty pads when on the go so that you can throw them out if they get messy!
Clothes / Blankets
- 1 extra onesie / set of clothes (if potty training, an extra set of undies!)
- 1 burp cloth – maybe more if you have a spit up probe baby
- 1 swaddle blanket / Muslim blanket
- Hack – tie around your neck for a nursing cover if you prefer to cover during feeds
- 1 overnight diaper if you plan to be out close to bedtime for easy transfer when you get home
Sleep / Soothe
- Sound machine and charging cord. We love this sound machine that clips onto the car seat
- 1 pacifier – we love these soothies and a pacifier clip (hack – this works awesome for snack cups, teethers, and pacifiers)
Snack / Drink
- If your baby is old enough for food
- Snack cup + Snacks
- If your baby is still drinking milk or breastfeeding
- If you are a pumping mama, check out these posts for pumping on the go.
- Haaka / breastfeeding catcher. See this post for more details on why you need these in your life
- Bottle – we are big comotomo fans over here!
- Milk
- After freeze drying my breastmilk with Milkify (see blog post here) we leave a few packs of the singles in the diaper bag so that we never have to worry about keeping breastmilk cold or traveling with a cooler.
- If you haven’t freeze dried yet…
- We love this medicine/insulin cold pouch to keep bagged breastmilk cold.
- If your baby won’t drink cold milk and you’re on the go we bring a hydro flask of hot water to drop the bag in to warm instead of hassling with a portable warmer
Clean
Medicine
- Dechoker!!
- With Charlie’s anaphylactic allergies we are always equipped withour medical bag of epi-pen and children’s benadryl.
- Thermometer – we love this one that connects to your phone
- Children’s Tylenol and oral syringe
Entertainment
- For babies, soft books – we love the clip on ones so they don’t get lost in the car and flash cards
- For toddlers, fidget cube or wood lacing toy
- A pack of sticky notes and blue tape – these work wonders for entertaining
