Pamper your baby's bum with Pampers! (Pampers Baby-Dry Nappies)

Member Name: jo1976

Product:	Pampers Baby-Dry Nappies
Date:	23/06/09 (76 review reads)
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Advantages: Reliable nappies, frequently on promotion

Disadvantages: None, providing you shop around for offers

Having just come too close for comfort to a leaky poo-filled nappy with my youngest son, I felt compelled to review the brand I've been using. Not, as you might expect, to have a rant about the poor quality but to confirm that this is (thankfully) such a rare occurance with Pampers Baby Dry Nappies that they are worthy of praise indeed!

Nappy manufacturers aren't stupid people and they know that parents are likely to remain loyal to one particular brand if they are proven to be reliable and good value for money from the early days of nappy use. It is this reason (and not that they are particularly generous, kind individuals) that they bombard new parents and expectant mums-to-be with free nappy samples and money off coupons. Make sure you sign up to the Pampers baby club online to make the most of the freebies! This is a very successful marketing ploy and it certainly worked for me. I used Pampers virtually all the time with my oldest son after using the freebies and using the vouchers to get discounted nappies. (I tried Huggies early on and found them to be totally unreliable and remained loyal to Pampers ever since.)

With baby number two, I did chop and change brands a bit more as money was more of an issue. Having said that, I always found myself coming back to Pampers. The full RRP of Pampers nappies are higher than the prices charged for shops' own brand nappies but I can honestly say that I've never paid the full price for Pampers. I always stock up on multi-buy offers and buy in bulk anyway. I buy the economy size packs which, for a size 4+ nappy, contains 52 nappies. (The bigger the nappy size, the fewer nappies per pack.) The full price for the pack should be £8.99 each but I bought them on offer last week at £14 for two packs from Boots. It's not unusual to see offers like this or even a third off all nappy packs, for example. To be honest, promotional offers on Pampers seem to be getting even better and more frequent nowadays. I presume they are having to work harder to maintain their share of the market in the current economic climate.

Now that Pampers are generally as economical as other brands, I have no hesitation in recommending them, particularly the Baby Dry variety. The advertising for this type of nappy tends to focus on their benefits for overnight use and I can confirm that the nappies survive a full twelve hour night with our little one (although they are fit to burst in the morning!) Pampers seem to want to encourage parents to use their Active Fit nappies during the daytime but I don't really see the need to use a different sort of nappy. I use Baby Dry nappies day and night and, other than today's battle with a very loose poo, I never have any problems. Presumably, Pampers want us to believe that we should use a different type of nappy during the day as Active Fit are more expensive and tend to have less generous discounts!

The nappies are very generously sized and each size covers quite a wide range of sizes. The 4+ for example covers babies all the way from 20-44lbs! Exact sizing depends on your baby's shape and body size so you need to use your judgement about when to go up a size. Most shops and supermarkets are fine about you exchanging different sizes if you stock up on too many of the wrong size. The nappies themselves have stretchy sides and velcro tabs so they adjust easily to fit perfectly and stay in position no matter what your little devils get up to!

The only time I have ever had cause to complain about Baby Dry nappies was when the tabs snapped off on two nappies from the same pack. This is very unusual, so unusual in fact that I actually called the freephone helpline to let them know. I was very impressed with the response from Customer Services. They provided me with a pre-paid envelope so that I could return the faulty nappy and the packaging and even sent me a £5 voucher by way of apology. If only all companies were as responsive to customer feedback!

Having given these nappies many hundreds of uses, neither of my boys suffered from nappy rash, soreness or irritation, other than minor and infrequent occurences when they were pooing very frequently as newborn. My youngest son's bum is always as soft as, erm, a baby's bottom even after wearing a nappy all night! I can confirm that Pampers Baby Dry do, indeed, keep your baby dry all day and all night too.

Summary: Keep your baby's bum as soft as a baby's bum!