Baby Diaper Bag Essentials: What Every Diaper Bag Needs
Ensure your diaper bag is equipped for any emergency with this packing guide. Taking your routine on the road is a new challenge, so use this guide as a start to be ready for anything. Every baby has different needs, so adjust to what works best for yours.
Diaper Bag Useful Hints
Put your wallet, keys, phone, sunglasses and other small items into a small pouch, so you're not rummaging through your diaper bag all the time to find them.
Diaper Bag Essentials for a Short Trip
These are the barest minimum and should always be in your diaper bag. Add other items depending on where you're going and how long you'll be out.
- 2-4 diapers. 1 for every 2 hours plus 1 spare.
- Wet wipes. Use a travel pack of Huggies® Clean Care Baby Wipes - No added Fragrance, Alochol, Paraben & MIT, and clinically tested, safe for skin
- A changing pad. If your bag doesn't come with one, pack a thin waterproof pad to turn any surface into a changing table.
- Plastic bags. For dirty diapers, clothes or any mess; saved Ziploc bags seal the smell away too.
- 1-2 changes of clothes for your baby.
- Extra top for mum. In case of a spit up or spill.
- Pain or fever medication. Coughs and sniffles are common, so be prepared.
- Hand sanitizer. To keep hands clean.
- Tissues. These always come in handy with a messy baby.
Add-Ons for Longer Trips
- Diaper cream. Get travel-sized tubes.
- Bottle with formula or expressed breast milk. For formula, fill the bottle with water and measure the formula separately so it's easy to prepare.
- Blanket. Can also be used as a changing pad or nursing cover.
- Small towels. For burping, washing faces and hands and small messes.
- Extra breast pads.
- Baby food and spoon. If your baby has started on solids.
- 2–3 bibs.
- Pacifier. Pack a spare just in case.
- Teething ring. Babies can start teething as early as 3 months.
- Toys or books. To keep your baby entertained.
- Antiseptic cream. For small cuts or bites.
Nice-to-Haves if You Have the Space
- Crackers or other snacks. For your baby and you.
- Sling or wrap for carrying your baby.
- Hat. To keep the sun off your baby's face.
- Sunscreen and mosquito repellent. Especially if you'll be outdoors.
- Camera.
- Immunisation or other health records. Keep these in a Ziploc bag so you always have them on hand in an emergency.
- Cheap over-the-door hook. For public toilets that don't have bag hooks.
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