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Sometimes as parents of babies we think that being over-prepared will keep us sane. (Confession time: Dustin and I bought a wipe warmer before we had our son. A wipe warmer?!? 😂)

When it comes to travel, I’ve found that packing as simply as possible and ruthlessly weighing my “nice-to-haves” and “might-needs” against my “essentials for sanity” makes for a much smoother travel experience.

The same rule applied when creating this list. While I was originally going to share 10 essentials, I thought to myself, “Beyoncé, you gotta simplify.” So I broke it down to just my on-the-go essentials that address these 3 things: my baby’s safety, sleeping, and eating. Because when one of those 3 are off, we’re all off! 🙂

So these are my 6 “essentials for sanity,” aka, the things that I would turn the car around for.

What are yours??