AIBU to think if you need nappies with a 'wetness indicator'...

[TiggyD]

...you have a problem?

Give it a poke and if it feels squishy change it. And you have to be able to see the nappy anyway. If it set off a siren that you could hear through the child's clothes it would be useful. Or maybe a voice like some reversing lorry's have that says "Attention adults! I have urinated in, or have soiled my nappy! It's time for a change!"

Anybody bought them?

Useful for newborns when monitoring for dehydration, other than that, waste of money.

YABU. It's a brilliant idea for newborns.

YANBU

Mind you, I do remember this one thread about a nanny-share and how the nanny (apparently) kept changing the nappy of the child that wasn't OP's. Nanny (again, apparently) would pick up child and say "ooh your nappy needs changing".

OP was insistent you couldn't tell a toddler's nappy needed changing, just from picking said squishy-bottomed, smelly toddler up for a cuddle. That OP may be the intended market here.

We have size 3 wetness indicator nappies, we only have them because we have pampers money off vouchers.

It is the most stupid idea, offcourse ds's nappy is wet he wees in it! The indicator goes wet after he does 1 wee, I am not changing him everytime he does a wee, I guess that is the idea, some parents will change them every time the indicator goes blue and pampers will get loads of money.

I found them great for the first few days with newborn dd when watching for dehydration. Still using them now as they're standard on size 1 huggies, and tbh I like them as you can tell by the colour and how far round the stripe has changed colour if you can leave it a bit longer.

Huggies ones are great. Pampers seem to fill with pee MUCH quicker in general, in both terms of the stripe and the squishiness.

I wish they'd been around with 2 year old DS. May have saved us being admitted to hospital at 2 weeks old as a precaution when there was fuck all wrong with him except a tongue tie that had been missed, and led to a supply issue. He wasn't dehydrated and it would have been nice to have had that little stripe to settle first time mum nerves.

I thought the same thing, but then I read people on here found them genuinely useful when trying to tell if their newborns had wet or not. I can see that point, because you do need to know they have been, and when it's only a tiny little bit if newborn wee in a a nappy that is super absorbent, it can be hard to tell.

I can't see the need for them for size 3 and above though.

weve ussed them because they where cheapper and on offer.

but are pointless as mine would pee in them on purpose to see them change colour or disapear..

never thought about the new born.. or sick child.. its a good idea in that respect.

Gawd I'm not changing a nappy for every wee!

OP don't be so bitchy, some new parents take a while to get to grips with the changing thing and I think theres nothing wrong with helping them out a bit. YABU

I really liked when Lidl nappies had them years ago. Just a novelty of course because they don't really register poo though that's fairly easy to notice. They don't have them on anymore. Won't be enough for me to pay Pampers prices though.

Very useful for adult nappies. I can just have a quick peep in the night, rather than poking prodding and moving the old person. They are meant to last 12 hours, but the amount my oldies eat and drink mean they don't always.