I’ve not been hacked, this is an email dedicated to bums. I did the whole nappy trial and error mission with Marlies and discovered that different brands were better for different stages, but I highly highly rate Asda own brand Little Angels for the newborn stage, sizes 1 and 2. Price + spillage + inoffensive design + ease of procurement + comfort (I am guessing on her behalf). Peachies didn’t exist then. Since this is a review page, I will use Little Angels as my benchmark.
Issue: Why can’t nappies be better*?
MotherProduct: Peachies Premium Nappy Subscription, from £15
By comparison, just like being upgraded to business class on one fortuitous leg of a journey that means economy will forever be RUINED, having now tried Peachies, I only want to use Peachies, damn it. They feel like quality. I don’t know how to describe the comparison… like glossy magazine paper next to the cheap Daily Mail newsprint of Asda (sorry Asda, I still rate your nappies). Therefore I am guessing on her behalf that they’re much more comfortable too.
Price: OK, they’re more expensive. But so is organic food. How much is your baby’s bum worth? Sometimes I want to think it’s priceless, sometimes I look at my maternity leave bank balance and think Asda didn’t do Marlies’ behind any disservice. But still… (Hence the very helpful discount code - scroll to the, ahem, bottom).
Spillage: None. Zero, Zilch (So far anyway). Peachies claim to be a ‘super soft upgrade with unrivalled absorbency, next-level liquid capacity.’ I concur. We have had two explosive incidents and they remained contained! I suspect this might change when she needs to go up a size - because that's how you know it’s time, right? But wee-wise, lasts all night no question (please don’t hate me, but Noa slept through for a week! She is now in full throws of 12 week regression, but during that blissful week her nappy did not wake her up.
Inoffensive design: With bells on. I am a product design magpie and this branding is pretty much perfect, even down to the Serif font on the website. Why can’t all nappies be this, well, chic for want of a more baby-appropriate word. I HATE it when a cutesie lurid design shows through a baby grow. It’s got no chemicals or dyes, which means minimalist, which works for nappies. Who knew?
Ease of procurement: Well., they come to your door. It’s a subscription service. You will never again run out of nappies mid-change and have to mad dash to your local shop to panic buy (extortionate and not even as good as Asda-for-newborns) Pampers. Or schedule your weekly shop around Asda because you can’t just go there for nappies.
So, I’m sold, for sure. I didn’t ever think I’d ever be sending a newsletter reviewing a nappy brand full stop, let alone doing it with such unbridled enthusiasm, but here we are. SH*T HAPPENS badoom boom tshhhh.
I apologise. Here, have 20% off…
Tomorrow - one of my favourite ever finds from when Marlies was tiny. Until then… x
(Wait! There’s still time to enter my Prepello Buggy Board giveaway - such an excellently high chance of winning, ‘cos the pool is not enormous. Enter below)
*(for the planet and for my baby and for me and my peace of mind)