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2 hours ago, oznl said:
I guess this thing is to be kind of expected after nearly 6 years in nappies.
Yup. I've been surprised a few times lately at how wet my nappy has been, both in the day and on waking up in the mornings. I even suspect I've been wetting in my sleep, although I've no conclusive proof of it. Also, I sometimes find myself in the middle of wetting with no memory of the process starting. Wearing all the time is a very different experience from wearing intermittently. There's no need for control, and as far as I can tell, the ability to control gradually atrophies. At least, that's how it seems to have worked for me. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I found I got into a routine, along with everything else in life if you do it all the time. I change in the morning after breakfast and a shower, into a nappy that normally gets me through the day. Then again at bedtime. Some days my daytime nappy doesn't quite last the day, so I'll put a thinner one on for the evening. I find it easy to tell when washables have about reached their limit, although I get the occasional minor leak of course.
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Oh yes. Mind you, I might change from my usual washables into disposables for Xmas Day, to save the extra hassle of the washing alongside everything else that'll be going on. Only 8 more sleeps!
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I don't look back. I'm in nappies for good now, and I've never doubted that for a moment. Waddle ever onwards...
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I just wet. It doesn't occur to me to get up & use the toilet. I've got a nappy on, and that's what it's there for. These days I'd probably not make it to the bathroom anyway.
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A Snappi at the waist, and a 3" pin for each leg.
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9 hours ago, PupAvo said:
Does anyone have any advice to help get myself to commit to wearing every night?
Not really. Other than don't try to hurry it. If you don't feel like wearing, don't worry about it. Eventually you'll settle down to some sort of routine that works for you and that you feel comfortable with. Maybe you'll end up wearing every night, and maybe not. It doesn't matter which, as long as it suits you. There's no point in pushing yourself into achieving a goal if you're not really comfortable with it.
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10 hours ago, willnotwill said:
Patients ... damn autocorrect. I have no idea what a pantine is.
Pantine: "A Pasteboard jumping jack, fashionable in the 18c" - Chambers dictionary.
An easy mistake to make 😀. And yes, I did have to look it up.
...and in case anyone is wondering...
Jumping jack: "A jointed toy figure whose limbs can be moved by pulling a string..." There are a couple of other definitions that probably aren't relevant to the 18th century.
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Strapped to a stretcher in a rescue helicopter.
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I've been full-time in nappies for a few years now, making no attempt to control wetting. I wet my nappy in bed nightly at least twice while awake or half-awake, and this happens quite involuntarily. However I've still no idea whether I've ever wet while asleep. How would I tell? I get up every morning in a wet nappy. How much of the wetness is down to wetting awake, and how much is due to wetting asleep? No idea. I don't really care either - when I wet is no longer anything I want to influence. Back to babyhood...
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Well I'm not particularly active at the moment, thanks to the cattle that trampled me in July. But normally anything up to about a 5 mile walk I just wear my normal terry washables, with extra washable inserts. Folded in a Chinese fold, pinned with a Snappi and 2 3-inch nappy pins. It's only on longer walks that I take things a bit more seriously & aim to minimise chafing and nappy disintegration. Usually that means a Tena Maxi pullup with an extra disposable insert, and careful management of my fluid intake over the day. These pullups don't usually fall to pieces over a day's hiking, unlike some tabbed nappies I've tried, and they are very comfortable over long distances. I always carry a change of course, but usually don't need it. They are no protection against cows though...
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Snappis are great for terry nappies IMHO. When I'm in a terry square, which is most of the time, I use a Snappi at the waist & pins at each thigh. The Snappi appears to damage the terry less than pins, although terry nappies last a long long time anyway. The elasticity in a Snappi helps keep the nappy from falling down, and is easy to adjust when the terry is sodden (terry stretches a bit as it gets wetter). Snappis grip really well, last a long time, and I've never had one snap yet.
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I just can't remember the first time, but it was many years before I started wearing full-time. I do remember being really paranoid about every little rustle, and trying to remove tabs silently. That's in a public toilet facility of course. I've changed in fields many times on hiking trips, which is another thing altogether.
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Keep your pecker up and soldier on! We've been in the same house for over 25 years, and moving would be a nightmare. One day we'll have to - this is an old house that needs a lot of maintenance, and it's bigger than we need now anyway, now the kids have left. Already there are things we can't do any more, often involving ladders or kneeling down (quite apart from the cow incident and an impending hip replacement). And my other half is a bit of a hoarder. Quite honestly the nappy side of things would be one of the easiest things to manage when we eventually have to up sticks. I'm dreading it to be honest. At least you've done the moving bit. Good luck with getting it all sorted out over the next 10 years or so.
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4 hours ago, wannawet said:
Looking like I'll be going in for shoulder surgery soon, find out next month. Hospital is not a problem, am more worried of how I will get my night diaper on, I wear pullups during the day, and can one hand those. Hoping I can figure it out before surgery so I don't have to ask the wife to do it....
I had multiple ribs and a wrist broken in July thanks to a herd of cattle. When I got out of hospital there was no way I could put a nappy on, not even a pull-up. My wife didn't have a problem with it, luckily. Have you considered trying pull-ups with additional soakers? That's probably what I'd have tried if I hadn't had help from my wife. Also, getting out of bed was an issue for me. I had to get a bed rail fitted before I could leave hospital. Good luck!
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I don't think we've had a problem with the washing machine getting smelly. My other half hasn't raised it as an issue, since I started using sanitiser in the wash. I can't really tell since Covid removed most of my sense of smell, so I have to rely on my wife for this. I suspect it helps that normally I'm in washables full-time, so the washing machine is rarely left for longer than 2 days without being used for a 60 degree wash. So any remaining water in there doesn't have time to fester.
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On 10/16/2024 at 4:36 PM, FretaBWet said:
We've had covid once together but it was very mild because we had both been vaccinated for it before.
Same happened to me. I've had Covid 3 times. The first time was awful. That was before there were vaccines. 2 weeks in bed, 2 more weeks on the sofa. I've been vaccinated regularly since I could get the shots - once or twice a year. The other 2 times were just like a bad cold - no comparison. I got tested each time, then when it showed positive I just stayed at home until I wasn't going to infect anyone else.
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Hmm. Well I don't have this problem as a general rule, but it's hard to say why or to recommend anything. Firstly, I'm always pointed down. I'm generally in cloth nappies that are close-fitting enough to prevent any moving around or erections down there. When I'm in disposables I always have additional soakers, and they have the same effect. Also, at my age, erections are fewer and further between, which also helps.
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15 hours ago, Little Sherri said:
Her: "See? No reaction. I think your baby pants are cute. Wear those more, okay? Whenever you feel like it. And I'll try and make more coffee at home."
With that, she gave me a swat on my plastic pants and walked out of the room, leaving the door open behind her. I don't know what I was expecting - it surely wasn't going to turn into a romantic interlude - but I felt like we'd been on the cusp of something.
Oh that's brilliant. Welcome to the club!
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Good luck with it Mikey. Ironically my stomach has been better than ever since the cows got me. I was prescribed Famitodine to counter potential stomach problems from the rest of the drugs bundle (mainly painkillers), and it seems to have alleviated the problems I was already having before the accident.
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Had mine on Thursday, along with a Covid jab. Shingles jab in a couple of weeks. Stay safe kids!
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On 10/5/2024 at 12:46 AM, oznl said:
I lived in the UK for 5 years though AND I can attest that this is surprisingly common.
Cattle are easily the most dangerous animals in the UK, in terms of deaths per year. More than dogs. There are more cattle-related deaths in the UK than shark-related deaths in the world, or so I understand. Most of the dead are farmers.
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On 10/4/2024 at 10:54 PM, Little Sherri said:
Canadian hospitals are the same. They're universally awful products, designed to tickle the dark little hearts of purchasing managers, but they dispense them with a generosity commensurate with their value, I guess - they practically throw them at you. And there are no dignity considerations - both of my parents were in hospital over the previous year - one made it out - and the nurses stacked nappies on their bedside tables, on the window sills, on a cart, everywhere - there was no doubt about what the situation was in that regard, in either of their rooms.
All they had was loose wadding, polyurethane 'pants' that you had to knot at the sides, and waterproof bed pads. Pretty hopeless. I think this is probably due to cost and to fear of bedsores.
On 10/4/2024 at 10:54 PM, Little Sherri said:I'd probably also try to have my own products brought in, and I also question how my wife would do with that - if she'd be sympathetic, or hard-hearted, and, if she'd, A. say arrange your own baby supplies, or B. Bring me what I asked for (something white, heavy-duty and plastic-backed, BeDry's woudl probably ideal, or C. if she'd come to the hospital with a bag full of Mermaid's Tales and Lil' Bella's and then I'd have to navigate constant interactions with medical professionals while wearing giant toddler diapers.
It wasn't really an issue. I had a load of Betterdry's in the garage & I just had to tell my wife where to find them. And no, I wasn't tempted to ask her to bring in baby prints!
On 10/4/2024 at 10:54 PM, Little Sherri said:Did you cut across a field and get perceived as a threat, and one or more of them took a run at you? How did you get discovered - did you have to drag your broken body over to the road, did you call someone, or did someone see it happen?
I did cut across a field, because that was where the public footpath went. By UK standards it was a big field, ie I wasn't within sprint distance of the field edge. The cattle surrounded me, knocked me down (deliberately), then trampled over me. I was alone, & I thought I was dead. I managed to get out, got a few yards, then they did it again. I got out again & reached the field edge. I got under an electric fence & was then safe from the cattle (although I didn't know that for sure). I staggered towards a nearby farmhouse, met the farmer coming towards me, who called the emergency services. I was airlifted to hospital. I had 15 broken ribs, lung damage & a broken wrist, & they had to rebuild my ribcage with titanium. I'm still on opiates & will be for a while. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone's bucket list.
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On 10/3/2024 at 5:38 PM, Little Piglet said:
That must have been hard to fall asleep without it in your mouth.
Not a problem with the quantity of painkillers I was on!
On 10/4/2024 at 4:13 AM, oznl said:I’m honestly not sure my beloved would do that for me, so strong is her psychological block on this. I can recall musing about my emerging dependency when a health issue came up a few months ago and her position was of the “you made your bed, you lie in it” school.
How did being changed by her feel? I know in my case, I’d probably just be embarrassed because the whole “being changed” experience isn’t one that I particularly crave (although as a lazy sod, I’d be open to the idea of saving myself the effort) but I’d know how much she hated it. That would make things incredibly uncomfortable for both of us.
Funnily enough it wasn't really awkward at all. Mentally, that is. Physically it took some working out. She knew I was effectively dependent on nappies before the accident. I think she was OK with it because clearly someone had to change me - I was in no state to do it myself. She preferred to do it herself rather than have the nursing staff do it. For me, I had been a bit worried about how she'd feel about it, but it was fine, and the intimacy of it felt really nice. I'd say it brought us closer together, but then we already were close together. I started changing myself after I'd been home for a while because I was once more physically able to, and didn't want to place more of a burden on her than I had to.
On 10/4/2024 at 4:13 AM, oznl said:I can't quite recall where you are on the continence spectrum at this stage. I'd have to confess that in similar circumstances, I'd consider trying to go without them although I'm not sure how well that would work out when I'm asleep.
If you still are continent at this point in your journey anyway? Did 2 weeks of catheterisation shift anything there?
I very much doubt I have full urinary continence these days, and I don't think the catheterisation made any difference. I've not attempted to control my urination in any way since I went full-time into nappies. Not once.
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All night, every night. And sometimes during the day too. On long night drives, or when I'm tired watching television in the evening. Mine's in my pocket just now though, as I'm in the middle of my morning cup of tea. Which reminds me, it's time I took Mummy up her cup of tea...