To ask how I survive a night with a baby and NO NAPPIES?!!!

[Carmen99]

Partner dropped baby off an hour ago...told me he had bought nappies. Ive been through bags...definitely no nappies...He's working tonight and will be miles away now. I have no one I can ask for help- neighbours elderly on one side, suffered very recent bereavement on the other side. Unbelievably my car is in garage and there are no shops within easy driving distance.
Does anyone have any ideas at all about what I can possibly do to get through night? Only use one nappy in night...usually change at 7pm and again at 6am. I've got swim nappies but sure they wouldn't work.
Got no other nappies in house.
Help!

ANYWAY not anyone.....

The posters on this thread who have clearly never left a city or town in their lives are brilliant. Get ye to the north of england, or even out of england all together into the scottish highlands, welsh marches or irish counties. Amazing how remote you can get in the UK!

I love the people who can't believe anyone could be this disorganised. It was just a mistake...not the end of the world. It happens

Well said OP! Although annoying that you had to say it at all. Some people on here are complete idiots.

We have a toddler and have run out of nappies at least twice....that's 18 months practice!

Well worth keeping in two or three cloth or terry nappies, for such occasions.

I see the thread has descended into competitive ruralness. I'm amazed you've got the internet connection to post at all.

Glad you've got inventive OP, you have my sympathies

I can't believe that some people don't understand what rural means
No 24 hour shops, or even ones open past 5.30. Taxis cost a fortune, and there is no such thing as amazon prime or similar.

As a teen I lived in a small village which was 6 miles from the nearest shop (open 10-6), and 17 miles from the nearest supermarket. The nearest taxi service was 10 miles away, and only 1 bus a day. Living there required lots of pre-planning.

I’m surprised someone didn’t mention why don’t you just jump on the tube😂😂😂😂. I love a good spot the Londoners thread!

@Deadbudgie if you live in London there would be a shop selling nappies (and chocolate) within walking distance. They may not be the brand and/or size you want but they will be nappies so no need to get on the tube.

People are so wrapped up in their own bubble! I'm not even that country and I don't have a taxi firm in the village so £30 min for a taxi to come in from 10miles away. We had no shops open past 7pm until a year ago. Buses run every 2 hours.

A good tip for the future - stick a couple of nappies in the back of the car seat where that little compartment is. Always have a spare now! If you don't drive, squirrel a couple away in the house somewhere.

Ffs surely the solution is to have the au pair hold the baby over the bidet while the butler instructs the maid to join the chauffeur to hotfoot it in the Jag to the local Spar to just bloody well buy some?

Can people not think for themselves anymore?

God put half the people on this thread into my house in Mid Wales they'd have a fit. Uber? You aren't in London anymore

On behalf of normal self-aware Londoners I’d like to point out that there are millions of us who can conceive that there are many places you can’t nip out to buy nappies easily or cheaply, or get at uber or a taxi.

It’s just the insular numpties who draw attention to themselves and get the rest of us a bad name.

I live a 40 minute train ride away from London and don't qualify for Amazon Prime Now! We do have uber though!

Prob late to this thread but when mine had a runny tummy they slept next to me with a bare bum on towels or with a muslin tied around like a cloth nappy in a knot. I'd do that or fashion a towel into a cloth nappy. Or shove a sanitary towel in a tied muslin maybe - improvise! It's just a night. We rely on disposables but they're just a wad of absorbent stuff. Other stuff does the same job too and has for centuries. At 13 months there's the chance you may have a bit of bladder control there anyway.

Muslin squares pretty much ARE nappies. Do you have one? Teatowel?

I’ve use both of these inside a nappy wrap before now in times of no money. Usually in winter when I couldn’t get the cloth nappies dry. Admittedly I had the nappy wraps already, but lots of those were just fleece. Something absorbent, something that doesn’t leak over the top. That’s all that is needed.

Honestly even letting them sleep bare bummed on some layers isn’t that bad.

@Riv sounds like where I live, except we have no village shop, nightmare, our local pub gets alllll the 'hell I need milk' phone calls!!!

"Get an Uber"

😂😂😂😂

I once had cause to fashion a nappy from 3 super sanitary towels (maternity ones from the back of the drawer in fact) plus some toddler training pants. Surprisingly effective. Also the nappies were only in the car which was parked round the corner but it was pissing down and I was ill so I cba to go and get them, shoot me now, I give no fucks-

Bingowingslikeashieldofsteel - his/her solution is the best. In every way.

I'm a 'townie' finding it hard to wrap my head around what it must be like to live so remotely. I have my choice of 10 shops open until midnight in surrounding roads and failing that a 24 hour garage a 10 minute walk away. I recall doing a 1am walk with dd1 in the pram one night to such garage for Calpol when she had a raging fever. Dread to think trying to manage something like that in the country.

I couldn't ever live somewhere rural, the thought fills me with dread, though I know it is loved by many. OP, if you PM me, I'll happily send you a few cloth nappies. I have lots spare, and it would be good for you to have some for future emergencies at least?

Also if Baby wakes up wet and soggy, cover a towel nappy in a fleece blanket. It will stop the wet from soaking through on to his clothes and sheets.

Incidentally I’m in a London borough and don’t have deliveroo.

Definitely not bitter. Oh no.

Bingo dear lord, does your nanny involve you in problems relating to nappy purchases? Mine simply liaises directly with the housekeeper for all such matters.

Glad you're sorted for tonight OP.

This thread is an eye-opener. People really do exist in a bubble. We're in a village in SE England, not massively rural, but no Uber, no 2 hour Amazon or Amazon Fresh, or Sainsburys Chop Chop (never even heard of this!). Crappy village shop shuts at 5. Nearest shop open past that is three villages away and a ten minute drive. We don't even have a village community facebook page to ask for help on.

Just use a towel and fold it like a cloth nappy and use a safety pin. Its not difficult; and if you don't know how then Google it. An 8 page thread with all this drama. Iaimtomisbehave1 said it on page one. Like they did it in the olden days

This really is very amusing. Not being competitive, just merely pointing out how naive some people can be.

I grew up on a farm a 10 minute car ride from the nearest village- in fact, it wasn’t a village, it was a hamlet. No shop, post office etc. Just houses, a church, tiny village hall and a pub.

That hamlet was surrounded by other hamlets- to of brought nappies at 7 o clock at night, it would be a 20/25 minute drive to the nearest town- and no, that is no exaggeration. So realistically “getting a taxi” would cost £30-40 plus the cost of the nappies. That’s a weekly shop to some people.