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Laura Sutherland, family travel writer
When traveling for short distances or limited periods of time, some parents simply stick with the kind of diapers they use at home. For long travel days or extended trips, however, there's no question that disposable diapers are the most convenient choice.
Disposable diapers eliminate the need to cart dirty diapers around. They also save you from spending time finding — and using — laundry facilities. Of course, if you have access to a washing machine at your destination, you can use whichever kind of diapers you prefer.
Take special care in laundering dirty diapers away from home, though. If they're not properly washed, your baby could get a diaper rash. If you're traveling in developing countries or remote areas, whether you're using cloth or disposable, you'll probably have to carry the soiled diapers with you until you can dispose of or clean them properly. Although cloth diapers might seem like the more ecologically correct choice, depositing the waste water used to clean them can be a problem. Disposables do have some advantages over cloth: They hold more liquid so you won't have to change your baby's diaper as often and they weigh less.
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The convenience of disposable diapers does not outweigh the benefits of using cloth diapers on our kids.
Using cloth diapers may be a little bit more "inconvenient" on long trips, but we feel good using cloth because it's healthier for our kids and the environment. Having said that, one option to use with cloth diapers is bio-degradeable flushable liners which are used between the diaper and the baby's skin, letting moisture pass through to the diaper while preventing solids to soak into the diaper, which will take the mess out of washing your cloth diapers. If you have to use disposables, please consider using flushables like gDiapers, which don't have to end up in our landfills. But if they do, they will decompose at a much greater rate than regular disposables.
I agree with the anonymous poster that disposable allow children to sit urine longer. Many mothers tell me that their child can uriniate up to 3 times before they change the disposable because they hold so much. Yes. Disposable is changed less often and that is when bacteria is building up. Cloth does not have your child sitting in urine. If cloth is wet the skin is breathing preventing rash. Cloth makes the child more aware of their body. They alert you to more diaper changes as opposed to cloth when they are unaware. Cloth diapers today are absorbent and convenient. They allow the childs skin to breath. The materials in disposables suck the natural oils out of baby's skin and causes more rash. Do the research. cloth is wonderful. I work full time and go to school and still manage to cloth diaper. It can be done. disposables take 500 years to decompose. Cloth is fine for travel. Use liners to flush waist and use a zippered wet bag. There are also flushable gdiapers for travel as well.
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