Pampers has created a diaper for premature babies. Normal infant sized diapers do not always fit premature infants, so they have created one that is small enough for an infant that weighs as little as a pound.

In 2015 alone, 380,000 infants were prematurely born. Not being able to fit a regular diaper, nurses have to take more time to try and fix a diaper so that it would fit the infant. “The last thing you want to think about is whether or not a diaper is of the appropriate size,” said Jonathan Kaplan in an interview with Fox Business.

It took around three years for Pampers to add the premature diapers to their product line up. Pampers diapers are the number one diaper for a lot of hospitals, so when the need for smaller diapers was asked for, they answered.

The diaper is referred to as the P3 and is designed to fit around any medical equipment that is in the way. On the sides of the diaper they put tabs so that it can be adjusted to the size of the infant. Peggy Eichel, a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, told Fox Business, “It’s so adaptable to these babies. We couldn’t have asked for a better product.”

One in ten infants are born prematurely, which means they were born before 37 weeks. When they are born they are taken to the NICU, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to be cared for. In the NICU infants are cared for until they are healthy enough to go home. Now, they will also have properly fitted diapers while being cared for.

“It is amazing that Pampers is going to help so many families and hospitals,” said Brian Rockwell. Parents will be taught how to put the diaper on the premature infant for when they are ready to go home.“Now diapers are one less thing NICU nurses and parents will have to worry about, and that is such a good thing,” said Carrington Teasdale.

Pampers are already a highly used brand among newborns and now they can serve premature infants as well.