How to Choose the Best Diaper Bag for Your Family

How to choose the best diaper bag
for your family is more important than you might think.
So today we’ll take a deep-dive into options
and valuable assets you’ll want to consider
in the purchase of this oh-so-necessary baby accessory.

 

Pre-baby

no couple gets that choosing the right diaper bag is an important decision.

So they are like, “Seriously?

Spending a couple hundred dollars on a bag to hold diapers and wipes?

A bag used for a mere one or two years out of the child’s lifetime?”

But take this to the bank with your saving-for-baby cash.

The right diaper bag can make or break all the big and little trips you’ll make in those few short baby years.

 

 

What to consider to choose the best diaper bag:

Here’s a list of aspects of diaper-travelling to consider.

 

Size.

• Diaper bags come in all sizes and shapes, with all the pockets and insulated zipper pouches and included changing pads. However, they can also be a plain tote-bag to shove everything into willy-nilly. Which do you think you would prefer? This web-site has a very good break down on bag sizes and the needs they address.

Load

• Does your baby need frequent diaper changes? Is she colicky, throwing up often, so she requires several outfit changes in a day? Does the weather require layers of additional warmth throughout the trip? Is your baby taking bottles, or nursing? All of these questions determine the load/mass your diaper bag will need to carry.

Clean-ability

• Is the diaper bag on the road every day or mostly at home? Will the bag travel by stroller, car, jeep, ATV or public transportation? Is it a city bag or a country/farm bag? Do you have “helpers” handling the bag, who may or may not notice wet spots or care if it sits on the bus floor? If the answer to most of these questions is yes, then pick a bag that is machine washable. But at the very least, wipeable.

Straps

• Diaper bags get heavy, so consider the type of straps that will make your job easier. Backpacks, cross-body messenger straps, or at the least, on the shoulder tote straps. Some bags have straps to attach it to a stroller, while some can be slipped over a suitcase roller handle.

Changing Pad

• Certain styles of diaper bag have an attached changing pad, so you literally become a walking diaper station wherever you go. There are changing clutches, which are their own little diaper changing station that slip into a larger bag. This gives you the freedom of using only the clutch on occasion, rather than lugging the big bag everywhere. However, any bag choice must include a changing pad.

 

 

One last important requirement in the best diaper bag choice

Does the diaper bag have space for grown-up items?

The minimum requirement for a diaper bag is that it will hold Mom’s phone and wallet besides the usual baby paraphernalia.

However, as stationers, Kim&Ink must point out other options to consider.

Is there room for your shopping list? Your planner requirements?

Then there’s also some who need to travel with a laptop or tablet.

If you’re on an actual vacation/extended trip,

please make sure there’s room for Thank You notes

so you can acknowledge the best that comes to you along the way.