By the way, what is a diaper bag for? What's inside ?

What is this famous bag that all parents carry around when they go for a walk with their baby? And what do we put in it? We will explain everything to you.

You may be wondering for the first time as a parent or just curious about this weird world of diapers and squeaky stuff. what is the famous diaper bag foran object acclaimed by a great number of daronne and daron.

What do we put in it? Why is it taken everywhere? Is it really essential? So many questions… Here are the answers!

The diaper bag, not essential, but very practical

This is a bit of the problem when it comes to baby items: is this item essential? Can we do without it? The answer is yes, of course. At least on the object in question. No need to slap your PEL in the first corner children’s store, a bag can do the job. Because what matters in the diaper bag is not so much the packaging as its contents.

But when should one be used, you ask me, hanging on my words? So already we don’t have to do anything, let the injunctions go, thank you. If you WANT and feel the need to buy a not too disgusting bag to carry your baby’s things, do what you want. The important thing is to know what it is for.

What do you put in a diaper bag?

Specifically, to help you, let me set the scene for you : You have a baby, very hot that left your belly not long ago, and you haven’t seen another adult-sized human in a while.

You haven’t slept in 57 days, but who cares, you really want to go for brunch with friends at a cool little bar that costs € 19.70 for its scrambled eggs. You decide to take the heir with you, driving your Yoyo stroller on the asphalt with your hand with the little energy that your recent episode gives you.

You are finally seated at a crowded restaurant table and the baby is crying. What to do ? If he’s hungry and you’re breastfeeding him, it’s pretty simple, just put your nipple in his mouth while filling yours with the famous scrambled eggs. But if he takes the bottles, you give the cinquez mentally to have He thought it good to take something to make a bib outside the home.

Jump, take a ride in the changing table and there you are, filling the bottle full of water with a dose of milk already packaged in a small dosing box, cleverly prepared for this purpose.

After the bottle swallows greedily, your baby, a little being who doesn’t care much for convention, belches from hell and regurgitates in the process. The solution ? Dip your hand into the diaper bag once more to grab the sling you brought on board, just right for this type of situation.

After a little digestive siesta, wedged neatly in your arms or stroller, and at the exact moment you are served a much-desired chocolate mousse for dessert, your personal little roast decides to push hard to get away with it. . all red to do you the honor of taking out a royal peach directly at the bottom of its layer.

As a good parent, you tell yourself it’s okay, it can wait a bit, you’ll change it when you get home. On the contrary! Between the smell that comes in waves in the nostrils of the other restaurant customers, and the inopportune cries of the bacon who can’t stand having a full diaper, you are once again reaching into the diaper bag to get a diaper, wipes if you are. like them, or cotton and liniment, before heading to the restaurant’s bathrooms, equipped with a changing table (why, isn’t it like that everywhere?).

Imagining that the restaurant where you have lunch has understood that even children have the right to be in society and to settle down a changing table in the toilet is not such a silly ideathank your brain for thinking about taking on board the necessary to transfer the excrement of the real buttocks and calm the moods of the new born.

Would all these actions have been possible if you didn’t have everything you needed at your fingertips? Not really no.

The list of things to put in a diaper bag

To put it simply, the phrase that rules many parents when they leave their homes and have to pack their bags for their baby is ” in case “.

Get a sweater “just in case” it’s cold, take a dose of milk and a bottle “just in case” you can’t go home in time for a snack, get a spare body “just in case” explosive poop occurs while you are on the other side of your house. In the life of parents, everything is done “just in case”.

That’s why there are diaper bags, because they are big enough and designed on purpose, using small pockets and compartmentsto collect all the mess you move from point A to point B.

Being selfless and used to moving my personal tribe too frequently, whether in restaurants, trains, woodland walks and how much… I give you my little personal, but quite universal, list of what is usually found in a lambda diaper bagjust to prepare for all eventualities:

A diaper bag if you fancy having a bag on purpose (but still, a tote bag or small travel bag can do the job
Levels, always 3 or 4 “just in case”
Squares and cotton liniment, to clean the baby’s bottom
Cleaning wipes if you prefer, and it is also practical for cleaning the little hands holding the subway bar, but a little less ecological for some of them
A box of powdered milk waffles, and with powdered milk inside, is quite logical huh
A bottle already full of water if you don’t want to carry a bottle of water or a bottle with you
One or two pacifiers, because you never know if the screaming will subside and it’s very practical. Why two? Because there is ALWAYS one that falls to the ground
A leotard and a spare suit, “just in case”
The comforter of the heir if he has one
a toy or two to keep him busy and distract him when he’s tired of being kicked out
medical record, because you never know
One or two bands to clean everything that comes out of the roast mouth without warning
A small sweater or blanket if the weather gets colder
An additional large nappy or a small folding changing table, so as not to change the nappy directly on the lawn of the park
A plastic bag that can be used as a bin after changing a diaper
Foods suitable for the child’s age, such as fruit, biscuits or a seasoned rib (wow, let’s calm down, that’s a joke, the rib doesn’t need to be seasoned)
Seasonal accessories, such as winter hat and gloves, summer hat and sunscreen
A bottle of hydroalcoholic gel, because hey, hygiene isn’t just for dogs

This list is not exhaustive, it can obviously be modified and modifiable, according to your needs, those of your child, the weather and your desire for anticipation. But at least you will get the outline.