Now I read somewhere once that on average a Mum or Dad can change upto 6,000 nappies a year in their babies first year and I think it was about 4,000 nappies for the following year, so if I quickly work that out I have probably changed around 50,000 nappies and that is without the following months, years that get them to potty trained and without the numerous nappies I have changed whilst babysitting ( yes crazy woman does still babysit even though my house is like the waltons already!). With that information out I think I can safely say that I know what I am doing with a nappy!!

I vividly remember that when Ellie, who is 5 now was about 5 months old Pampers decided to change their nappies. They brought out the 'New Improved' pampers premiums. BIG MISTAKE for me or should I say Ellie. They had added a substance which I believe was for freshness in the lining of the nappy, which on the surface sounded great but within 2 days of me using the new improved pampers ellie had developed what looked like a burn all over her nappy area which then quickly spread down onto her upper thighs. I called out the health visitor and she was stumped because it was plainly not nappy rash so I ended up taking ellie to my gp because by day 5 it looked absolutely horrendous and ellie was constantly screaming from the pain. I was gobsmacked to learn that ellie had had an allergic reaction to whatever was in the new improved nappies. We discovered this by elimination as I have always had to use the same washing powder, fabric conditioner as all my kids have very sensitive skin, I had not given ellie any new kinds of food, I had not eaten anything different ( was still breast feeding at time) and the only thing that had changed was the nappies. She was prescribed steroid cream to start with to take the inflammation down and then for about 6 months I had to use a barrier cream because her skin was extremely sensitive. I contacted Pampers because one I was very angry that it had happened to my little baby girl and I also didn't want it happening to any other little baby. They were extremely apologetic, promised they would do further testing and sent me money off coupons but as you can guess there was no way I was going to put pampers on ellie again so I swapped to tesco own nappies which were brilliant (and half the price I might add too!!).

The final problem I have had with pampers is that when you get to the larger sizes, 5+ (junior plus) 29-60lbs they tend not to do a good a job as the rest of their sizes do. Now I only use these at night for the girls as they are very lazy and flat out refuse to get up and use the loo without screaming the entire street down!!. I would like to point out that on the packaging of these particular nappies it states in big letters that it keeps your baby dry for upto 12 hours !!!!! So again after several nights of changing bed sheets and going through at least 4 nappies each girl per night I decided to try tesco own nappies again in the size 6 extra large, BINGO they didn't leak and we only had to use one per night. The other bonus to that is we were paying £5.96 for 24 5+ pampers and only £3.95 for 30 size 6 tesco own nappies. Now I know this may not seem alot in money terms but when you think at one point I had 3 children in nappies 2 of them fulltime it can save alot of pennies.

Although Pampers are very good at having promotions on their nappies, usually 2 packs of 50 for £16 or the smaller packs at 2 for £10 they still are the most expensive nappies on the market right now. The company they are made by are Proctor & Gamble and they have pretty much thought of everything as I think it's only pampers and huggies that do travel sized packs of nappies which are always handy in emergencies. The have an excellent customer service program and all their details on how to be contacted etc are clearly printed on every packet.