“Fairy tales bottle!” Kayla was trying not to get mad.
She hated being a baby..
Kayla also knew drinking milk before bed time would make her have a wet diaper in the morning and she was determined to stay dry in the morning..: If she woke up in a dry diaper she could prove she’s not a baby!
If I remember correctly, somewhere in "You're not Broken" by Dr Rhoda, she mentions briefly that a very early account, if not the earliest (at least that she could find by her definition/criteria at the time of her publication) dates back to the 1500s. She didn't elaborate much on what that entailed, however.
I personally, would absolutely love to hear the account! Who was involved? What did they do? How were they abdl all the way back then? I mean, it's probably a small anecdote about some person (probably a high ranking Duke, captain, religious figure or someone else important enough to have notes taken about his life) who liked to be swaddled, spanked and speak baby gibberish.
@Slomo, also in her book, Dr Rhoda touched on some roots of abdl. Or I maybe just melding things in my mind from another source(s), but anyway! I remember something about this (but don't quote me) can stem from basically babies being clothed and treated differently from adults. So way back to 2000bc, perhaps a person would be abdl in a sence that he would like to be wrapped up/swaddled in furs/cloths and breastfed.
I'm not very up to date on what, if any, undergarments the various peoples across the world wore and if they had something akin to a diaper for infants. Nor am I familiar at all with the "toilet" training practices of the same people lol. Considering they are hundreds of years removed from anything that could be called a toilet, latrine, outhouse, water closet, etc. Figuring the cost and expense of resources and time and energy at the time to make cloth, of any variety, is immense, I'd say even cloth diapers would be a rarity. Even with decent cleaning methods, it would be incredibly laborious.
Also as you mentioned, you can't miss what you never experienced or had. Let's say those people really had nothing special for infants. A one year old wore basically the same things a 40 year old would wear, within reason. So that abdl desire more than likely wouldn't exist. Unless an adult likes suckling, which I don't rule out completely.
It is something wild to wonder about, honestly. How far back could abdl go?
I would love to see a story that tackled aging littles well, but it will have to be someone else besides me. I have parrots that are going to live, hopefully, for 30 years and aging littles makes me think of aging parrots who outlive their human companion. There's got to be a really cute, fun story about a 50-60 year old Little who gets adopted after losing their CG because there are so many heartwarming stories of adopting or rescuing old Cockatoos or Macaws or African Greys. But still, my heart...
As a bird mom I can't be the one who writes that but there's something there.