This shit is going from bad to worse! Literally - I am counting it!

I never realised there would be a time in my life when I would be counting nappies. Or, more surprisingly, looking for mobile apps to help me count nappies.

Not only am I counting nappies each day, but I also then work out how many I changed in a week. This is for medical reasons, peace of mind, and also to assist me budget for nappy expenditure. 

After a few months I thought I'd stop counting nappies. I did...but....then it changed to looking at the nappy 'episodes'. It didn't take long to realise I preferred the earlier nappy counting hobby.

When looking at nappy expenditure, I recall working out the cost per nappy. Sadly, for my little boy I also worked out one wee in the nappy was not enough to warrant a change! Huggies nappies claim they are super absorbent, some special opti-absorb technology. I tested that claim - and felt scammed when I changed it before I took advantage of the full absorption capability of the nappy. They fool you with that blue line. Showing a caring parent when the nappy has been used by your little bundle of joy. I was only fooled a few times before I stopped looking for the line and instead waited for the weight of my child to change with the heaviness of a completely full, capacity-reached nappy.

I realised it was time to go back to work when I was referring to my nappy stats in the app in, what I thought was, a very interesting set of conversations. I mean, there are pie charts, line charts, bar charts to help a parent track the number of nappies used, types of nappy episodes, time between changes and, well, the list of statistical data collected and re-framed into a chart goes on! When you start looking at bar charts and analysing nappy data tracked on a nappy app it is time to return to the workforce! Or find a hobby.

I think it would be better if an app at some point spoke back to the user and said -

"Ok, that's enough, you are boring me and I'm an app. I've stopped tracking your data and demand you put down the iPad, go turn on Game of Thrones and do something more useful with you time" - said in a terminator voice!

But they don't, and when you are home, alone, bored witless, or breast feeding/pumping at an hour in the night when you use to pull out your best dance moves, these statistics seem to give a feeling of accomplishment, achievement and when stats and charts can be used - well I call that new age parenting.