today we're going to show you how to use a snappy snap peas are flexible y-shaped diaper fasteners that are used instead of diaper pins in order to secure a diaper into place the snap peas flex in all three directions and they have little teeth or combs on the backside that graph the fabric of the diaper and secure it into place we're going to show you how to use the snap using a pre fold today and you can also use a snappy with a fitted diaper or even a contoured shape diaper that don't happen to have snaps or velcro in order to fasten them and with the pre folds I simply just like to use the tri fold method which is to fold it into thirds and then I like to fan out the back just a little bit to make it easy in order to or in order to grasp it here is Ilias who's going to demonstrate the diaper for us and we're going to slide the pre fold under his bum pull the front up and over the front this is where folding those tabs in the back make it really easy to grab otherwise you're kind of having to dig in there and find them so then you're going to pull the tab up and over and you're going to follow it and do it on the other side as well pull you're going to pull up and over then when I have it nice and secure I hold it with one hand while grabbing the snappy with my other I like to finish up so that I can see and feel the teeth and I anchor it into the diaper and this helps me to see that it is in place and feel that is in place before pulling it across to the other side if it's not anchored into the diaper then you can potentially snap yourself with the snappy and that's never a pleasant feeling so you're going to pull across to the other side and anchor the other side and then finally you're going to pull down the center and anchor it right down the center and there is your snappy hello and welcome to the cloth diaper Whisperer blog today we're going to be providing hello welcome to the cloth diaper Whisperer blog today we're going to be discussing