I recently read that parents spend an average of €1,500 on disposable nappies per child. This was rather a startling statistic as I await the arrival of my third child. I already have two daughters who have been far from average in their nappy use, so I’d estimate that so far I’ve easily spent around €4,000.

This is not to mention the untold environmental damage I’ve probably caused littering the earth with dirty nappies which, according to some estimates, will take 500 years to decompose. (How can they possibly work this out? Disposables were only invented in the 20th century).