There are mittens designed specifically for cleaning up nappy explosions

We want, we need.

They say necessity is the mother of invention and anyone who's taken care of a baby for a few hours will know that this invention is not just necessary but completely genius. Some enterprising soul fed up of getting baby poo on their hands has come up with disposable wet-wipe mittens designed to make dealing with nappies easier. They're called Shittens (best product name ever) and they look like this. We've all opened a nappy to find something unimaginably manky, not to mention difficult to contain, so we reckon these bad boys would be a godsend. Shittens promise no more frantically going through baby wipe after baby wipe to stop a lava-style spread while trying not to actually touch it.

"If there's one great universal truth that we can all agree on, it's this: No one wants poop on their hands," Shittens say on their website. "And yet, we laugh carelessly in the face of danger every time we take an old fashioned wet wipe to our heinies, flying completely blind in the critical poop-to-hand spatial relation."

They state that Shittens are "for baby, for pets, for grandpa, for you" and claim that they are eco-friendly but as they're not flushable, you might want to use them sparingly. As far as we could tell there aren't any stockists in Ireland but you can pick them up on Amazon, where they have a four and a half star rating.