or is this health and safety gorn mad?!

[VajazzHands]

You know that plastic thing that says do not remove if you want to return found in the gusset of swim suits?

I bought a swimsuit for my 8 week old from mothercare, and it had one!

Exactly what is it protecting the gusset from? Babies wear nappies. Babies don't have to worry about periods or discharge so surely the gusset of a swim suit is no different from any other item of baby clothes?

my dd pooed in the pool, actually i think i wooshed her out just in time, and it stayed nicely in her costume.
this was years ago when no one wore swim nappies

My mum used to take me swimming with no nappy in the late 80's because she used terry squares and could'nt afford disposables so she said she used to have to spend at least 5 minutes of the half hour trying to shift around away from yellow spots or chasing poo round the pool :o

Swim nappy are not absorbant so pee will just get stuck in the barrier of them then seep out they catch poo though which is the main thing.

I used floaties swim nappy/trunks with my DS, £5 from TKMAXX and they lasted him for a year and a half of weekly swimming until he did'nt need nappies anymore.

My DD has pooed in the swimming pool before. She was wearing a swim nappy which contained it.

Very young babies do have periods sometimes because of the hormones from the mother. My MIL was horrified and thought DD had internal haemorrhaging :)