Twinspiration by Lage Cheryl;

Author:Lage, Cheryl;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 2016-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Destination: Double-Duty Diaper Bag

Sure, as the name implies, the diaper bag needs to contain all the necessary paraphernalia for changing the dirty diapers you are bound to discover within mere minutes after leaving home.

What you may not realize is that the strategically stocked diaper bag can also be your secret weapon in preparedness for any and every tricky away-from-home challenge you may encounter while out with your twosome. Stoke it up with an array of diversionary tools, and your babies will appear to all onlookers as peaceful and content as a couple of cloud-sitting angels. You’ll be able to accomplish so much more, and for such a greater duration of time, by just investing a bit of mind power into your bag of tricks.

How tempting it is for me to itemize each and every component held within our nappie-sack, and promise that if you stowed the same, you’d be equipped for any and every out-of-house challenge. Sadly, such a “guarantee” would resemble a campaign promise: well-intentioned, but unlikely kept.

Each set of twins is made up of two very individual children. Each mommy is different, too. You will likely elect to store your mommy maintenance tools in the diaper bag, rather than carry a purse. Select a baby bag with an easy-access zipper pocket, and stow away your wallet, lipstick, keys . . . whatever you consider your “mommy must-haves.”

Twin maintenance “must-have” objects needed for out-of-house adventures are fairly universal. Here is a good foundational diaper bag twinventory:

• 4 or 5 diapers (for outings lasting 4 or 5 hours—you may not use any diapers, you may use all)

• Travel box of baby wipes (keep that well-supplied and check it before every outing; one diaper dirtied can require the use of 4 or 5 wipes; stock generously)

• Changing pad

• Diaper rash cream and/or petroleum jelly (in a tube)

• 3 or 4 spit-up cloths (cloth diapers are ideal)

• Small plastic dirty diaper (and wipes) disposal bags

• Infant Tylenol (or generic)

• Infant gas drops

• Pacifiers (and a set of spares) if your twosome use them

• Bottles for small infants/finger-food snacks for older babies

• Cell phone with your pediatrician’s office phone number saved as contact

• Spare set of clothes that either twin can wear (for when diapers leak inconveniently)

• Large ziplock freezer bag (or you can use your diaper disposal bags, just don’t confuse them) for storing diaper-explosion-sullied clothes

• Infant nail clippers (you would be amazed how often a snagged fingernail appears, usually manifested by a bloody facial scratch while shopping)

• Travel pack of tissues

• Trial-size/travel bottle of antibacterial no-water-needed soap for your hands following the emergency diaper changes that occur miles away from a sink-outfitted bathroom

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