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I was born in 1951 and until I was seven or eight years old there was only one pediatrician in town. There were three exam rooms in his office and no doors, no screens, and everyone walking by could look in and see what was going on. And yes, everyone got their temperature taken rectally. I remember being very embarrassed but I also remember being the five or six year old voyeur. I also remember being surprised at how many kids (older than me) who were getting their diapers changed. All diapers were cotton cloth with diaper pins and rubber pants. Real rubber pants, "that pulled the hair out of your legs" when you stood up to have them pulled up over your diapers

USAF 1970 - 1976. If it was in SEA, I was either there or flying over it... in some very strange aircraft.

No it would not. IBS just means, that for you, diapers are normal underwear. Much easier to change into a clean diaper then it is changing and washing your Clothes, Car Seat\Living Room Couch.

Double diapers were a thing 'way back in the day' but it doesn't make any since with a paper diaper. If you need more absorbancy then use a better paper diaper. When we talked about "doubling a diaper" (cotton cloth) we were folding the diapers into a Double Thick diaper and Pinning it in place. We didn't pin Two Diapers on.

I can remember "freaking out" if my diaper leaked and got the bed wet enough that I felt it. My mother had a way of folding my diapers that were mostly leak proof so leaks didn't happen very often. In many ways I was a Real Pain in the Ass growing up and my mother went Above and Beyond what most parents would have put up with. I recall that from personal experience with Nurses, my Aunts, and more baby sitters than I care to remember. The rubber sheet was there but I had a flannel sheet between me and the rubber. I should add that I really Liked the smell of my rubber sheets. ☺️

I always had a rubber sheet on my bed, growing up, but it was to Protect my Mattress. My mother used diapers to protect my bedding.

My mother kept me in diapers, off and on, until I was 12. Mostly for my bed wetting but I was also a sickly kid and spent a lot of time at the Doctors office or in the Hospital. I was always cloth diapered and my mother always folded my diaper in the Giant Size. So I guess I can 'relate' to the feelings and visuals of Big Diapers and I believe my childhood experiences influenced my love of diapers today. The fact I'm incontinent and need to be diapered all the time doesn't change my feelings, for diapers, one bit.

An old girlfriend of mine worked as a Hair/Wax removal tech??? (That's hot wax, a piece of cloth, and rip All the hair out by the roots). I guess it was okay for two or three days and then the hair started growing back in... poking everything... made me CrAzzziEEE... and I'll not do that again, Ever.

As a child I never realized that "Mothers" Talked to each other. I thought that my diapers and bed wetting were a FAMILY SECRET. I remember being Shocked that my mother would talk to Other Mothers. She would make sure that any sleep overs were Bedwetter Friendly. It seemed to me, growing up, like diapers and pajamas went together like bread and butter... it seemed normal.

My feelings also. My mother used to tell stories about me, as a baby, and one of them was how I would "Tear a Bed Apart" by Flopping around so much. I don't remember that but she always ended the story with how that stopped when she started using a Onesie rather than Blanket Sleepers for pajamas. The first time I guess I fell asleep and just slept. She sat by my crib and watched me all night... she kept Waking me up to see if I was okay... because I was sleeping, not flopping... and yet, I survived childhood. ?

I did when I was a kid and I think some of my 'Memories' are really my own. And that needs a bit of explaining. My aunts, older cosines, and my mothers friends loved to tell stories (at family get-togethers) about me growing up and how hard it was to get me toilet trained (that never really happened but that's another story). So a bunch of 'My' memories are more likely some version of all the stories I've Heard 'about me' from all the people who watched me Grow Up... and some of those stories have gotten outlandish over the last 65 years or so!

Running water and incontinence hummm, the question is, How do you Not pee?

When I was a kid I was the local news paper boy and several of my customers were living in nursing homes. All diapers back then were just called diapers and they were all made from cotton cloth then covered with rubber pants. (real rubber not plastic) Because I was a bed wetter, my mom kept me in diapers (off and on) until I was eleven or twelve years old so I was very aware that the people in the nursing home were wearing diapers. I do remember that I was surprised at first and I don't remember why but I know I used to talk with some of my customer's about my diapers and theirs. (I always was able to talk with adults as a child and preferred that to talking with kids my own age who always seemed stupid from my point of view). So I remember talking about things like how many diaper pins my mom used and how I folded diapers for kids when I was babysitting. But the thing that fascinated me the most however was the Giant Washing Machine in the laundry room that they used to wash all the diapers in. (I was a geek ever way back then :-)

I agree that there were a lot of diapered kids like us in the 60's. I started working for both our local News Papers delivering papers to people's houses when I was ten years old. I went to school with most of the kids on my Paper Route and every house had a Clothes Line (no home dryers back then) for drying their clothes. In the Sixties there weren't any paper diapers so everyone dried their diapers on those clothes lines. Even my 10 year old brain was smart enough to realize that some of the houses with the diapers didn't have any babies living there. I never said anything because there were diapers on my clothes line as well. But no one ever said a thing.

I came at this (diaper fetish) as a way of covering up or hiding my incontinence. I learned about DL's and such in Penthouse Magazine's letters section and thought I could use the fetish for a "cover" and the reason I had diapers if anyone ever found out. What can I say, I was young, sheltered, naive, and clueless... ?

Me and catheters never got along and I'm sorry you're have so many issues this time around. I never understood why my Doctors always thought a rubber tube was better than a diaper.

Think of getting that Last drop pee out as you finish peeing... Now just keep squeezing as Hard as you can, wait a moment... and REPEAT until you get bladder muscle spasm. Hold and enjoy. did I mention that it's rather uncomfortable?

I'm happy that at least some of you are getting taken care of by the VA. I never had Any good experiences with those jerks. It may not be All their fault, there was that BS with Reagan when they just "Cut Us All Off" and said "If you aren't getting a Disability Payment from the VA You're Not Disabled"! Fuck you very much... the VA. So the Bad Knees, the Agent Orange Diabetes, and the bladder scars along with the incontinence has cost me !?$$?! thousands but I never kept track. I guess I was lucky to have a decent job and good Insurance. Oh, and the VA even tried to take my VA card away from me but that's another story.

I've given up on educating people about cloth diapering but I'll take another short stab at it. I bought a Bolt of cotton gauze diaper cloth about 30 years ago and used it to make my diapers. It cost (back then) about 85 or 90 dollars and I still have around a third of it left but I haven't needed it because I'm STILL Using the same diapers today that I started with back then. (word of Advice... NEVER USE BLEACH ON COTTON DIAPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bleach Destroys Cotton!!!!!!!!! ) So cost of diapers $50 bucks. Waterproof pants... Rubber is the best but it's the hardest to take care of, so try the Polyurethane enclosed elastic pants the Gary Manufacturing Co. Waterproof pants $20 bucks each (you'll need at least three pair) $60 Bucks. Total cost with inflation somewhere in the 150 to 200 dollar range and that is on the High side. I could go into more detail but no one will pay any attention (I know this for years and YEARS of experience) and I doubt anyone will care about saving thousands and thousands of dollars on diapers. It's easier to buy the paper garbage, use it, and throw in the garbage. Gurrr (sorry bout the negativity) (Also... Read up on the P&G efforts to Make Cloth Diapers "Bad"... it worked!)

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For some of us the "Fetish" part of diapers and diapering came much later while we were learning how to deal with our Incontinence. It may be that the 'Point of View' we have comes from the Necessity of wearing a diaper rather than a personal need or desire. Dating and diapers never worked out for me in the long run but the things that are a MUST in Any relationship is Trust, Honesty, and Giving More than you ever expect to get in return... everything else takes care of itself.

My reasons for being diapered, as a child, were different but the results were very similar even though, for me, this started out over 65 years ago. My sisters and I were three years younger and three years older than me placed me in the middle plus I had the disadvantage of being an Adorable 18 month old "baby" for about six years 'In the eyes of all my Aunts, Cousins, and Baby Sitters. I know now that I was born with incontinence and childhood constipation added to the problems however none of this was Diagnosed when I was growing up. Around twelve years old I finally convinced my mother that I didn't want the diapers anymore and she "sort of" went along with it. My mother told me that I had to learn how to Change Myself and do my own laundry when I turned 12 but I had a very hard time with pinning my diapers on properly so it all worked out. Out of all that the memories that really stand out are me being told to "Just use your diapers sweetie".

I was always fond of the idea of a Hogwarts style summer vacation and child rearing "How To" for Majic Folk. You know... Diaper changes would be a flip of a wand and House Elves would probably do most of the work, but think about the AB/DL Baby Sitter Witch, or your Senile Granny Witch deciding you're her Baby Boy named John and your diapers need changing. Or maybe even an Evil 'Volumemort', a dark wizard who Makes ALL Wizards wear Diapers and constantly Fill those diapers with Poop right up to the brim. At this point my thoughts are TMI ever for me. (insert evil grin here)

I miss Pin On Cloth Diapers and Rubber Pants... Real rubber not the plastic things that everyone Called rubber pants because they were so used to saying the word 'rubber'. They never leaked and I thought they Felt and Smelled Wonderful. And there were Saturday Cartoons on the NEW Round Tube color TV at my best friends house. That, at the time, was Amazing!

To bad it wasn't the entire collection both with and without pants or dresses to show that you Really Can't tell if someone is wearing a Diaper... unless they're not wearing pants.