Whoopsie Wipes for nursing and bottle feeding

Feeding is the job where the dry square earns its keep, because milk is the thing you do not want to wet. Spit-up on a shoulder wants lifting, not spreading, and dry cotton lifts it; a wet wipe pushes it around and leaves a damp patch that smells of milk an hour later. A dribble of milk on a chin comes off with a dry corner. After a bottle, wet a square and the dried ring around the mouth lifts in a pass. Keep the pack within reach of wherever you feed and take one before you start, because the moment you need it is the moment you have one hand.

For a nursing parent the same square is the one to use on skin before and after a feed if you use anything at all: warm water on cotton, nothing perfumed, nothing that ends up in a baby’s mouth with the milk. The square is the same eight inches whatever it is used for, so it does the breast pad job in an emergency and the burp cloth job for the whole feed, and then it goes in the bin rather than the wash. A feeding day at this age is eight to twelve feeds, and a square for every one is the honest number: with the twelve wipes a day of diaper changes, a box of six is about a month.