To refuse to supply more nappies for DS until the nursery supply me with a breakdown of how the last lot were used?

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DS goes to nursery 3 days a week. (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday). Last Tuesday I took in two packets of 35 nappies so 70 in total. I assumed these would last at least a few weeks.

This evening they asked me for more nappies. I queried it and they insisted DS had used the lot. This means that in 4 days at nursery he'd used an average of 17.5 nappies a day. They tell me they keep a written record of all changes including the time and whether they were wet or soiled. AIBU to insist they provide it to me and to refuse to bring any nappies or pay their charge for 50p a nappy for each one they provide until they have shown me the original written evidence of all 70 nappies being used on DS?

I've suspected before that they may be using DS's nappies on other children but this is ridiculous surely!!

Visualise, because the nappies were put in the wrong basket, in the eyes of the nursery, budgetsjunior had none to use. While the other child apparently had 70. They aren't shared.

Ha, thanks nunq, I thought the same as visualise!

Oscar has not returned?! Hopefully, she's nipped out to get a clue

I still think thats far too many nappies to have gone missing.

Including the other boy, that would be changing your son and the other child 14 times a day....

Send in terry squares!!

round they didn't go missing. They were allocated to another child accidentally.

So budgetsjunior had none. Hence the request for more.

Other child had 70.

None went missing.

Ohhhhh yes!

Ah good, all sorted.

Can I just give you a breakdown of when we changed nappies at the nursery I was at...
When they arrived, as soon as (say 7am)
7am.
9am.
10.30am.
11.30am.
1.30pm.
2.45pm.
4pm.
5pm.
6pm.
REGARDLESS of pee/poo.
Pee/poo would mean MORE changes.

Do speak to the manager though, 17 a day, EVERY day seems a lot.

Ilikebaking why did you change them so often? Presumably you were regularly replacing clean nappies which is a waste of money and pretty bad for landfill.

I'd be peed off if you were changing my child's nappy nine times a day! There's no need.

ililebaking
that is far too many nappy changes
in our nursery we change mid morning and mid afternoon and when children soil
if a child has a sleep then they bate normally changed before their sleep too

baking that's a huge amount of nappies! And how much time must you be wasting by changing them so often?

DD is in cloth nappies, so I send them in her bag every day. Nursery ask for 2 for an am or pm session, 4 for the full day (I also put 2 disposables in her bag just in case she has the runs or anything like that). Even cloth nappies don't need changing for every little wee. Though she's 18 months now and can keep a nappy dry for quite a while, it's not unusual for her to be changed before dinner and still be dry at bedtime. In which case your nursery would have changed her dry nappy at least twice!

I am late to this.

Glad they turned up.

Surely a storm in a teacup though as they had obviously misplaced the nappies.

Oh well..all's well that ends well.for the rear end

pS some people will troll about anything eh (Oscar)

Our one year old has nappy changes (roughly)

7am
11am
2pm
Random poo time
6pm

9 nappy changes every day would piss me off to be honest, I'm not made of money. We didn't have that many 9 nappy days when he was a newborn!

What a pointless waste of nappies baking. Why on earth would you do that?

The only time my DDs used anywhere near that many nappies was in the very early days of amazing breastfed poos - and we were using cloth so it didn't cost a fortune. Our record stands with DD2 who managed 5 poo explosions in the space of 90 minutes, this after not having pooed for 3 days - which is quite normal in bf babies. It was part of a pattern so I had the nappies with me, along with changes of clothes.

Even then I think we only managed 12 that day, not 17.

I can't believe nappies get changed after an hour

That's an insane amount of nappies.

Wow baking, I'm a childminder and if I asked my parents to supply that many nappies they would think I was mad. I have far better things to do with the children than change nappies. I would guess that one member of staff was permenantly doing nappies, trying to get through everyone before it was time to start them all again. Can't have been much fun for them.

weird baking to change at 7am when arrive, one would hope the parent would change after sleeping in one all night and so would be clean/dry

let alone every hour or so during the day the day - seems total waste of time/money/nappies for parents

My DD gets changed every 2 hours. That's more than enough!

Mind you, nursery left her by accident in a nappy for 6 hours last week which resulted in horrendous burns from a dirty which was undiscovered! Fuming!

So could be worse!

My DS (2.5) has 3 changes a day, unless poo related. One when he's woken up, one after his nap and one before bed. Obviously if poo is involved it's changed more but modern nappies are generally made to be worn for up to 12 hours assuming no leakage. He's never had nappy rash and I genuinely don't see any reason to change him otherwise, they are never overly full of wee.

Oscar, if you live in the US, it's no wonder you're confused. Houses are so cheap there compared to the UK that mortgage repayments probably cost less than a packet of nappies. Besides, in the states, millions upon millions of women are forced back to work owing to the horribly brief maternity leave permitted, and lack of state welfare support.

3 nappy changes here too - once in morning, once after poo, once before bed. But he is DC3 and they have to be hanging off him for me to notice.

I was definitely more precious with other dc!

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to read all of the thread.

OP, I, unfortunately fell into the same trap of giving the nursery too many nappies. I think you should only take one packet in for the whole of the week and see if they ask you for any more. Or what I resorted to doing was saying putting in, say, six nappies each day in my daughter's bag.