PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively prevents the skin from being hurt while using a diaper (while wearing and when exchanging a diaper).SOLUTION: There is provided an absorbent article including an absorbent body 10 whose inner surface is made of nonwoven fabric, a fixing portion 20 made of a hook tape of mechanical fastener or an adhesive layer which is arranged at a middle part in the width direction of an outer surface of an abdominal portion 10F of the absorbent body 10, and a covering sheet 30 which covers the whole fixing portion 20 and is fixed to the fixing portion 20 in a peelable fashion. When wearing the absorbent article, both sides of a back portion 10B of the absorbent body 10 is fixed on the fixing portion 20 located on the outer surface of the abdominal portion 10F of the absorbent body 10. The whole fixing portion 20 is then covered with the covering sheet 30.
