I recently read an article about a new parenting ‘fad’ where babies don’t wear nappies and instead are held over a toilet or bowl when the parent senses that the baby is ready to relieve themselves because they believe it’s cruel that babies have to sit in their own waste. Are these people on crack?! They are babies! They have no control over their bodily functions! What’s next? A new fad where you don’t use sanitary ware when you have your period?! I don’t bloody think so! Anyway…I digress….

Ask my work colleagues, I am a moan when it comes to the total misuse of toilets (don’t get me started ladies who hover) and I have been accused of having a sense of smell comparable with a sniffer dog on a drug haul, so you can imagine how nervous I felt about the prospect of changing shedloads of nappies. When my daughter was born, for the first few days we kept commenting about this lovely ‘biscuity’ smell that she had. It wasn’t Jaffa Cakes or Waitrose Caramel Shortcake…and more Marks and Spencers Giant Handmake Cookies…

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