I am a retired maternity nurse. In 2012, while volunteering at a food bank, I noticed mothers looking for diapers. Thru research I found the National Diaper Bank Network, founded in 2011. The NDBN was founded after a story appeared in TIME magazine about a social worker ,Joanne Goldblum, whose "diaper bank" was making news. In 2010, Huggies hired a global research team and together with two universities, and a few diaper bank founders, the Every Little Bottom Study was conducted. The results showed that in the United States, one in three mothers struggled to provide enough diapers for a child. This was named "diaper need". In a follow up study by the Huggies and the NDBN in 2017 (Diaper Need and It's Impact on U.S. Families) ,two in five families said they stretch the diapers by keeping a child in their diaper longer. This practice increases a child's risk for skin rashes and urinary tract infections, among other serious side affects. The study found fifty-four percent of respondents took a child to a doctor to treat rash, with one-in- four, three or more times in the past year. In 2016, I became a certified member-diaper bank of the NDBN. There are now more than 200 such diaper banks across the country. Our annual conference is coming up soon. I look forward to hearing more.