Finally! An app for when my kid wees!

Luckily for us moms, Huggies Brazil has just launched an app that can tell you when your baby's made a wee, because the last 6 million years of child-rearing has obviously left mothers still mock-fainting in frustration on a daily basis - oh my word! if only I could get this nappy-thing right! thank you from the bottom of my heart!

*Ahem*

Whatever happened to simply using... well... I don't know... your eyes? Surely I am not the only mother in the world who is blessed with the super-power of vision-detection? When my baby's nappy is hanging between their knees, they probably need a change, no? Another amazing skill mothers acquire is a sense of time passing... if it's been hours and hours, well then baby probably needs a change, no? And then, there is good old fashioned common sense - if it is stinky, saggy or dripping down the baby's leg, it might be a good idea to change their nappy. 

But lets for one moment suspend all notion that mothers are skilled enough to figure out their baby needs a change... let's pretend that we have actually eaten our porridge-brains in a misguided and totally famished moment...

This app, called TweetPee (very innovative), supposes that you put a little thingy on the front of your baby's nappy which measures 'moisture levels' and tweets you when your baby's made a wee. What isn't clear is if it can discern a big wee from a small wee, and perhaps a very runny poo from a wee? Perhaps it has a pee-to-poo ratio measure-rometer? The app also lets you punch in when you've started a new bag of nappies and lets you know when you should put your next order in (of Huggies, no doubt). Because, simply peering at your nappy-stash is never enough of an indication that you're about to run out...

For those of you who are interested in yet another product aimed at making parenting non-existent easier, this app is only available in Brazil at the moment - sorry for you! For the rest of us, we will have to slog through the mental-minefield of our babies' bodily functions.In all honesty, tell me when they've made an app that actually changes a baby's bum in the middle of a cold winter's night for me and I might just be interested. Otherwise, don't insult my intelligence.

BY Loren Stow