WAHMIES WET BAGS - because kids are sticky and wet

It seems that the second wave of friends are now starting to have babies. I have tons of friends who have kids who are around my kids' age but now I find that I'm going to a lot of "first time" baby showers. I love doing that. I love going to see the glowing mom and listen to her excitement. She is going to go through what I went through 6 years ago when I had my first shower. I like to be on the "outside" looking in. I was reminded today as I was shopping for a friend's baby shower about a great product that I have recently discovered. Here is the 411.

So as a mom of a little baby, you quickly find out that things get wet. Sippy cups leak in your purse. Things get knocked over and spill. You get thrown up on. Or they throw up on your neighbor. Kids pee out of their diaper or pee on you. Or pee on the floor. Or have a poop blow out in the store and you have forgotten a spare set of clothes. I remember being in Babies R Us several years ago with my oldest and she had a horrible blow out while she was in the shopping cart. I started to panic. I ran out of wipes, had to run to the diaper section and buy more wipes. Then I realized I had just used her last outfit for the last blow out she had right before we left so I had to rip the tags off of the new outfit I grabbed from Aisle 7 and put it on her. I think one time I even wheeled around my baby in just a diaper because I refused to buy more clothes. Not sure why I didn't have any with me.... maybe I just decided I had enough and decided I wanted to make as many people stare at me as possible and left my child naked in the cart. Anyways, back to the product, what do you do with the wet clothes? Say you are at a park and you need to stash things somewhere. You DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT, want to put that wet outfit in your purse. I've done that. I decided I need to find some sort of dri-fit bag that could hold things. Thus the  new product.

These bags are called WAHMIES. I love them. They are super waterproof. They are a durable, washable and have cute prints. They come in three sizes.... small, regular and all day size. We only have the small and the all day size. They are designed for my moms who use cloth diapers. As you know, crunchy moms like that need all the waterproofing they can get their hands on. The small holds one diaper and one outfit. I use them as a small holder for one small onsie, a small packet of wipes and a diaper. It's the perfect size for me to go to the gym. I actually keep it in my diaper bag so I have everything in one spot. The bag comes in handy in case I need to put anything wet in there. The regular size bag I believe holds a few diapers. Either way you can't lose. I have several of the small ones. I actually sometime just give the small bag to my husband so he doesn't have to lug the diaper bag to and from the gym or wherever he is taking the baby.

What I have discovered is my FAVORITE bag is the ALL DAY BAG. Its HUGE. It comes with a great quality snap hook on the top. I have one bag for swimming. Ever see that mom who lugs their kids to the pool with the huge open top boat bag spilling out with towels, suits, sunscreen, sand shovels, goggles???? Well that's me. I'm dropping things left and right. Well recently I decided to downgrade and not use that huge bag. When we go to swim lessons, I take my All Day bag. I put two towels, change of clothes for each and their goggles. When they are old enough, they will each get a day bag. My oldest loves carrying it because it's pretty and has a carrying handle. So I put their wet towels, wet suits and goggles in there when we leave. Take it directly to the laundry room, empty contents into the washer (sans goggles of course) and throw the bag in there as well. Viola. Done. I love this bag. It's a wet bag. It's a mom's best friend.

There are so many uses for this bag. So my suggestion to you is to check them out. If you are a seasoned mom going to a first time mom shower, think of giving them these. By the way, I buy them on Ebay. Much cheaper.

Let me know your stories. I hope I'm not alone in my debacles of being a crazy mommy running around the store because I've just been thrown up on. The best was one time I actually had to cut a onsie off my child because it was so bad I didn't want to pull it over her head and drag the stuff through her hair. And also, as a third time mom who is not having any more kids, I don't even save the badly soiled outfit. In the trash it goes, it's not even worth the worry. Either way, would have been great to have these bags in a lot of situations that I had with my first child.

If you do get them, I hope you enjoy them. Or give them to a new mom, I'm sure they will love them!

Happy Baby Thoughts :)
R