Like thousands of other new mums and dads around the country, when Britt Forest’s first baby arrived, she turned to disposable nappies to make the endless feed/play/change/sleep routine easier with a newborn. While Britt confessed she didn’t love relying on a single-use plastic product, as a new young mum at the age of 24, she was also adjusting to the many demands of parenting a newborn — and so the convenience was an easy win . In fact, she didn’t even think about it much until her second daughter was born.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today However, when Britt had Saige, it wasn’t long before the little girl developed an “angry nappy rash that just would not dissipate”, no matter what Britt trialled. “It got to the point where baby Saige was bloody and screaming in pain,” Britt recalled. She tried everything from creams to nappy-free time and eventually stumbled upon cloth nappies as opposed to disposables.
It worked, as it turned out that some disposable nappies themselves were the cause of baby Saige’s rash, which was in fact a chemical burn, made all the worse by ongoing exposure to the chemicals inherent to disposable nappies. When Britt made the switch to full-time cloth nappies , it wasn’t long before Saige’s burns cleared entirely. But Britt was left thinking: what makes the ideal cloth nappy and why were there so many on the market, but none of them quite ticked all the boxes? Enter: her brainwave idea.
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