Silly Sausages and adult nappies!

Due to Poppy's neuropathic bladder she still has to wear nappies at aged 5. Nappies are usually supplied by the NHS once children reach the age of 3, if I remember rightly. Well she's getting rather big now as you'd imagine and a size 6 just wasn't cutting it anymore! So I put in the call to my local CCN, as all nappy prescriptions must go through her. A couple of days later and the new nappies arrived. Adult nappies! They were dreadful looking and Poppy took one look at them, screwed her nose up and said "they're not mine you silly sausage!". (Silly sausage is a fairly new phrase that she's picked up from her teacher and it never fails to put a smile on my face!)

Back to the nappies.. They were the most awful clinical looking things I've ever seen! Yes I know that they are just a nappy and needs must blah blah blah.. But she's 5... And opinionated! There was no way I was gonna get her to wear these! I mean she is still not impressed that she can't wear 'big girl panties' (which incidentally breaks my heart when she cries about it). Anyway, during a recent coffee morning with a close friend, whose daughter is a year older and has the same conditions as Poppy, I discovered that Poppy didn't need to switch to adult nappies. Pull ups for aged 5-8 were available. And princess ones at that! Much more suitable! Maybe it's just me but surely this should have been the next logical step before an adult nappy? Am I alone in thinking this?

After a brief and curt phone call to the CCN (curt on her part) she finally agreed to order the pull ups. I now have a much happier 5 year old when it comes to nappy changing time! Which makes for a happy mummy!