Pop Up Reusable Wipes

One of the convenient things about disposable wipes is that they can go in a pop up container.  If you're using reusable wipes you can also make your wipes pop up.

I use a wipe warmer.  It has been nice now that the weather is colder.  If you don't have a wipes warmer,  you can also use one of those plastic containers that comes with disposable wipes.

What I did was fold the wipes so they slightly overlap each other.  Then when you pull out a wipe it sticks to the next wipe and pulls it out.  Sometimes if you overlap them too much, the next wipe will come out too much.  You'll have to experiment with your wipes and figure what works best for you.

Here is how I did it.
Start with one wipe.  I will call this wipe A.  It helps to have wipes that are all the same size.  You can do it with different sized wipes too.  It is just a little trickier.

Then place the second wipe (wipe B) on top of the first but you leave a lip of the bottom wipe visible.  This is the part you will fold.

Then fold.

Then place the next wipe (wipe C) on top of those two.  If your wipes are the same size, line up the edge of wipe C to the unfolded edge of the wipe A.

Then fold

Keep placing wipes on top and folding.

You will end up with something that looks like this.

Just keep placing and folding wipes until you have the number you want.
Then I wet them.  I just use water.  You can use homemade wipes solution if you want.  I will put some recipes at the bottom.

After wetting the wipes, just put them into your container and pop up the first wipe.  It is pretty easy and only take a couple minutes to do.

Here is what it looks like coming out of the box.

Diaper Covers For All

We have been traveling with baby for a couple weeks. While traveling we've been using our diapers covers over the disposable diapers and it has been great.
I had never really thought about it before, but one day while I was out, I changed baby out of her cloth diaper into a disposable. I put the diaper cover back on her so I wouldn't have to carry it. Well it ended up being a great thing. Baby had a big blowout and the disposable leaked but not on to her clothes.
Since then I put one on her every time I have her in a disposable. It has been really nice while traveling since it is a lot harder to do laundry.  The diapers don't usually leak, so you can reuse the cover A LOT before it needs to be washed.  (I usually do the smell test to see if it needs to be washed).  Also they are way cuter than disposables ;)

We have a variety of covers, but my favorites are Rumparoos. They are one-size. That means that they can be adjusted to fit almost any sized baby up to 30 lbs. There are a lot of really cute designs.

There are so many cute designs (like this one I found on Etsy).  This is also a one-size.

There are also covers that use velcro instead of snaps.  This one is a Thirsties.  It is not one-size.

So even if you don't do cloth diapers, these diaper covers can come in really handy.  I know they have really been great to have over the past couple weeks.