Chickens in the Road Forum

• 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? Yuppers, sure do… and, the plastic popping sound the rubber pants made when administering a spanking!  ✓

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? Pampers for them, no cloth diapers…

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

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