Baby Diapers Back When
This picture of changing an old fashioned diaper was taken in 1973 … Remember the processes? Rinsing the diapers, rinsing soiled ones in the toilet, diaper pails, washing them, drying, folding … It took a lot of time, particularly if you were lucky enough to have two in diapers at once. And look at all that diaper going on my little baby! I suspect that was his night diaper which was always a double diaper … the poor babies could hardly turn over in bed!
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And they refer to those times “As the good old days” …..
The baby was sure cute – which one is it?
They say the cloth diapers are so much better for babies skin. I wish I dared do it! The hospital that I had the first three kids in used cloth diapers for the newborns for my first two, but had switched to pampers when I had Anna. It was interesting using cloth. The only bad part was I was terrified of pricking them with the pins.
That baby is Brett
I thought I was the last living mother who used cloth diapers for both my girls! Yes, I do remember the endless rinsing, soaking , washing, drying and folding. I’d just had a brief reprieve from all that labor intensive laundry when I had to start all over again with baby #2. But about the only time they suffered diaper rash was when the younger one was in Pampers during a camping trip in Vermont. Oh that was miserable! It was raining hard outside the tent and so hot and humid — her little behind red with scalding — so bad we just took off all the clothes and held her in our laps naked with that white rash medicine smeared all over her lower bottom! I couldn’t wait to get back home to my trusty cloth diapers soaked in bleach water and washed in hot water!!!!
Yes, cloth diapers, I remember them very well. First baby born early 1981, second baby born mid 1982, third baby born late 1983. All three were in cloth diapers at the same time!
I double diapered too—and used rubber pants! I remember night-time changing in our home once the toddler was daytime trained. I would change the two youngest ones first—in their cribs, double diaper them, put rubber pants on, then diaper up the toddler the same way.
Cotton flannelette rectangle diapers, plastic capped and metal snap-lock diaper pins, white pull-on rubber pants, and a large white plastic diaper pail.
I washed diapers every second day, and pinned them up on the clothesline outside to dry. I loved the way the diapers swayed and flapped back and forth in the wind, and how the rubber pants would take in imaginary breaths of air with each light breeze—puff up, then deflate. With their elastic leg holes, the rubber pants looked like space martian helmets of some sort.
I also remember babysitting throughout the 70′s and changing cloth diapers! There wasn’t a mother around that didn’t use old-fashioned cloth diapers and rubber pants! And nothing made a louder bang than when you gave a spanking through a pair of rubber pants! LOL!