Good morning from the Van! It's 6.30am. We were having a good nights sleep until
George decided that he wanted to have a conversation with himself in the middle of the night.
So we're a bit tired. But we are going to wake him up and get going with our day.
So today we're in Luxembourg and we're going to spend the day exploring.
Think we might need that George!
So now I'm just going to prepare George's day pack.
I always use this wonderful Cath Kidston rucksack as my day pack.
I just find it really accessible
and I love the handles on the top.
So I can pull out from underneath the pram
and grab it whenever I need to, with one hand whilst I'm holding George.
I regularly always check that I've got what I need
every day before we go somewhere because you don't want to get caught off guard!
In the front pocket, I keep another zip lock bag and in this I have
hand sanitiser, sanitising spray so that's for his dummy or any toys. Lip balm, teething gel
tissues and painkillers!
And then in the top zip of the rucksack,
I keep George's changing mat.
So what I'm going to do now is I'm just going pack
all the bottles and all of the feed that we need for the day
so I have my trusty NEXT carrier bag. I always put stuff in a carrier bag in case it leaks.
These are the bottles. So I pre-prepared these the night before and
I boil bottled water
I boil bottled water in the kettle.
Fill it up for what I need. Let it cool down so the water is sterilised then I can add whatever water I need to.
So here's the baby milk. This is my milk powder dispenser
it's from Tesco I think?! It cost me about three quid and works well
for us because, George during the day will have nine ounces and these just
about reach nine ounces. At nighttime however, and in the morning
he'll have 10oz sometimes 12 oz. So we start off with a basis of 10oz and then we use
these. My friend Jodie got me these as a baby shower gift and they're meant to be
for food actually. For weaning pots but I actually use them for milk and I can get
7 scoops of milk powder in each one of these. I think these were from B&M.
Cost a couple of pounds so if you are looking for those it's quite
important to find out,when they tell you about milk powder dispensers, they don't
tell you how much milk powder they can carry and every baby is different so
have a look on the market.
So what I'll do is, I'll put the bottles in
ziplock bags. I always use Ziploc bags! 1. Stuff leaks, okay, so when you bouncing
about out stuff leaks. Number two - once you've actually fed them there's always
residue left in the bottom of your milk bottle and if you're out and about in a
nice City or wherever you are you don't really want to be entering that on the
street (I don't anyway) and we don't have a sink facility in our van. We have a
container that we use but know what actually drain. I always use ziplock bags and also I
don't want to ruin my rucksack!
Make sure it's all closed. Get the air out and then place them into my carrier bag.
Put in the milk powder inside
Fold it up and then put it inside my rucksack
The last thing that I need to do is to prepare my flask. So if I just take you in here
I'll just boil the kettle and make the flask.
Shall we go?!
First nappy change of the day.
No baby change!
Okay, so this can be quite common when there's no baby change facilities,
you just got to do it on the floor
So get some strong thighs!
A good tip is to place your bag or something near to your baby so they can play with that and
it helps them stay still. George really likes to roll when I'm changing
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