SMOZ - did you say you were interested in trim aio's?
some suggestions:
very baby aio (at the weewuns, aplix closures)
swaddlebees sized pockets (you can get their aio/pocket hybrids but they take longer to dry)
itti bitti dlish (minky) or classics (PUL) for daytime (low rise)
itti bitti boo for night=time fitted for young bub, day time fitted for older bub

PUL nappies slide under jeans pretty easily

i would not rule out pockets either. Once you have pre-stuffed the pocket nappies, they are just like putting an AIO/ai2 on your bub - just one item to go on.

for narrow crotch night nappies:
lotus
dragonflymagik

and yes, sewing your own pocket inserts is a good way to go.

When ordering, or considering ordering any product, just email the site to ask them to measure the crotch width of the item for you - compare that with what you know suits your child. that's the best way to avoid ending up with lots of fluffy mail that you have to send back or try to sell, due to it being too wide in the crotch for your child. You need to measure the width, at the NARROWEST part of the nappy (of the brand that suits your child the best). Once you know this, saves you heaps of money. i wasted heaps, ordering "blind", before i found out this simple thing (asking the measurement) could save me lots of grief (time and money).

in the beginning, because i had a chubby thighed bub, i never dreamt that crotch width was her thing. i had no clue there was such a thing as wide, medium, or narrow crotched nappies. but as soon as i bought a narrow crotched nappy by mistake, saw the difference in fit (no more camel toe!!), and a more experienced person told me, that the NARROW crotch nappy brand was what made all the difference, the lights went on for me. then i sold all our wide crotch brands, only bought narrow crotch brands from then on. it was smooth sailing from then on.

so skinny or chubbly, my child needed narrow crotch nappies, no matter which body shape she had at the time (and she had both at different stages). Lots of US MCN sites use the terms narrow and wide crotch, but on Australian sites, you just get some refs to "trim" nappies. and that means different things in different contexts. for some brands, they're referring to the rise (low as opposed to high), for some brands, they use the word "trim" to refer to the allover bulk of the nappy. and another context, i've forgotten now.

Great to hear all the people who dragged themselves to the sydney baby expo, had a good time.

Congrats on the toilet training Saram! 26 months! wow!

SMOZ - the Pregnancy, Child and baby expo go all around Australia every year. In each state, different stakeholders choose to take part (it costs money to hire space), so part of it, is who can afford to be represented at the expo, it's an expensive proposition - which is why i suspect you don't see one person WAHM operators there.

so it's not an identical expo all around Australia, when it comes to my state, i think we would be lucky to have five mcn stalls there (including two local IRL mcn shops). baby beehinds (local consultant), peapods, and one year Cute Tooshies had a stall.

wotbb: the ubiqutous blueberry training pants, she pats the minkee ha ha.

whoever bought the OSFA swim nappy at the baby expo, what brand is that?

Saram, i don't think my nerves would cope, being a nappy buyer/consultant! i get so nervous with the responsibility of helping my friend, and she's such a lovely person (not pushy, nice and relaxed). But i have felt antsy, trying to buy nappies for a little person, when i don't know how much she weighs. (her mum hasn't weighed her for two months, and she's started solids in that timeframe).