Chickens in the Road Forum

Remember the old cloth diaper days?

• The folding?
• The pinning?
• Double diapering?
• Swiping the diaper pins through your hair to make them go through the diapers easier?
• Holding the open diaper pins between your tightly pressed lips when refastening diapers?   
• The rinsing?
• The soaking?
• The stinky diaper pail?
• The washing?
• The drying?
• The rubber pants?
• Trying to get the little piggies (baby’s sweaty little toes) into the elasticized leg-holes of rubber pants when pulling rubber pants back on again after a diaper change? 
• Changing diapers in the middle of the night… danger of pin pricks, and getting rubber pants back on baby right-side out and not on backwards? 
• Checking diapers for wet-wet or dirty… sticking a finger inside one of the elastic leg-holes of rubber pants, or stretching out the elastic waistband of rubber pants to do a check?
• Washing diapers and rubber pants in a wringer washing machine?
• Nighttime diapering, after your kids were daytime trained?      
• Diaper liners? 
• Hanging diapers and rubber pants on the outdoor clothesline to dry?
• Remember the plasticy rustling sound the rubber pants made when changing a diaper? 

What are your memories of old-fashioned diapering, and where do your memories stem from?

• Babysitting (teen years)?
• Changing baby siblings growing up?
• Diapering your own children the old-fashioned way?
• Helping family/friends with their little ones?
• Daycare?
• Changing grandchildren? 

When was the last time you changed a cotton-fold diaper with pins and rubber pants?

• 1960’s?
• 1970’s?
• 1980’s?
• 1990’s?