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I clearly remember pinning down my youngest sister with my elbow while she screamed, wriggled and kicked away my carefully origamied terry nappy. She swears you can still see where I accidentally impaled her with safety pins to this day, and I didn’t do it on purpose no matter what she says. Some years on, real nappies don’t use pins and it’s almost impossible to scar someone for life with Velcro. These days you don’t even have to wash them yourself. In civilised 21^st century Bristol there are people who swap dirty nappies for clean. I call them the poo fairies and they don’t cost as much as you would expect.

A prefold is a pad made from layers of cotton that folds into a waterproof outer cover, known as a wrap. Babies grow so quickly that you can hire the first two sizes of wraps and there are several types to fit different bums. Because the wraps fasten with Velcro you can bodge the nappy onto a wriggling baby and adjust it as many times as the baby will put up with. It’s simple to open up one side to check if it really was a poo or just the loudest fart ever. The wraps are the only thing you need to wash – big poos go down the loo, or in the compost bin and the prefold goes into a bag in a bin that comes with the service. When I go out I just take a plastic bag to stick the dirties in until I get home.

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