This formula shortage is real! I feel really bad for moms of babies with allergies because it’s extremely hard to find formula, and more specifically your kind of formula.
With me knowing about the shortage while pregnant, I took precautions early and started buying the formula that I hoped our daughter would be drinking. Thankfully, it is (however, the powder gives her some discomfort right now).
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Baby Formula
And, while I didn’t go crazy buying formula, I did buy some in case of emergencies. Well, recently we hit an emergency where we couldn’t find any. So, instead of me being stressed and scared, I knew that I could go to her emergency bag and grab the can from there.
Diapers
As I went through her bag, I noticed so much needed to be replaced. As an example, all of the diapers that were in there were size 1. With us finishing up all of her size 1 diapers, it made sense to go ahead and remove them, so that they can be used before we move to size 2 diapers. No one wants to waste diapers, especially the ones we currently use, Baby Cozy.
Baby Cozy diapers were new to us and we simply fell in love with them. They are hypoallergenic and are so soft. In fact, the softness is 2X more than just cotton diapers. We plan to continue using this brand and/or the Honest brand.
So, instead of me replacing the emergency bag with size 2 diapers (that we don’t have yet), I decided to replace the diapers with reusable baby cloth diapers that I found on Amazon in a pack of six.
They are from the brand TDIAPERS and come with (6) 5-Layer Bamboo Inserts and (1) Wet Bag. I chose the pink combination of diapers, but there is a blue set, as well.
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Other Items Replaced
Other items I replaced aside from the diapers include the formula and the clothes. I swapped out the baby formula that we use for a can of gifted formula that we are currently not using. This is not to say that we won’t ever use it, but for now, a great place for it to be is in the emergency go bag. I also replaced the smaller clothes with larger sizes.
Everything else, I left in the bag.
Final Thoughts
If you have not created an emergency go bag for your baby, why not think about it now? In my first post, I explained how I started the bag for next to nothing, as almost everything in the initial bag was from samples and/or registry gift bags.
Keep in mind, this bad is pretty small. It’s a $1 backpack from the school supply section at Dollar Tree. Eventually, we plan to upgrade our bags to larger bags, but for now, this works.
Do you have emergency go bags for your family?
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