Sitting Scribe

The best present you can give a new mother for Mothers Day is a Nappy Indemnity Day. What you may ask is a Nappy Indemnity Day. Well, for those of you who are parents, or more specifically, a mother, you will well know that changing dirty nappies is of of the most thankless chores a parent can do. No matter how many you change, no matter how well you do it, changing nappies is just part of the job.

Changing nappies can get pretty tiresome too, especially if the mother is breast feeding. Formula fed babies often get a little ‘blocked up’ and so poo less regularly than breast fed babies. On the other hand, breast fed babies have no trouble with their bowels. ‘Number Twos’ come out as easily as it goes in, and its is this ‘ability’ of breast fed babies to poo basically whenever enough mummy milk has been drunk to force a number two through that can get rather tiresome. It can get especially tiresome if you are the mummy responsible for changing up to ten nappies a day. Continue reading »