Babypants

Welcome back!

Thanks for the update, which is much appreciated. And thanks as well for addressing here something that has puzzled me from the beginning. Ethan seems to be an engineer or a tech of some kind, which is not the background of the typical nursing home employee. Therefore, quite apart from the ethical problems of having Mary's significant other run the test, Ethan looks to be a bad choice on practical grounds. Shouldn't the company be employing someone with nursing home experience to determine whether their product could be used without technical support for the staff? Ah, but my suspicions have been aroused by the contract itself. No one witnessed the signatures, and obviously no one notarized them. I just can't see any company being this casual about its liability exposure. So, is Ethan pulling a fast one here? You were careful to point out that he was relieved when Mary refused to have a stranger take over for him. Is this all an elaborate ruse on his part to get her into diapers?

This discussion of liability is interesting. Could such a product be marketed in the US without FDA approval? With or without FDA approval, if a nursing home resident died of cardiac arrest while wearing one of these diapers, I would expect a wrongful death suit to follow automatically (think product recall). And would a current draw strong enough to floor our tester also be strong enough to electrocute her if she starts playing around with it in the bathtub? Logic suggests that at some point she is going to attack it with acids-- and exposing live current to liquids in any form can definitely be hazardous to one's health!

A very good start. Thanks for taking the time to give Mary background and motivation at the outset, which will make her actions in future chapters more plausible. Money, personal pride ... there's a lot at stake here, so this should be great fun!

Nice update. Was this the end of the story?

Nice, suspenseful way to end a chapter. Will Sara exact revenge by reducing Bill to infancy? Will Sara and Cynthia gang up on Bill to teach him a lesson about manners? Can't wait to see where you take this story!

A fine story, but there is one detail that I wish you would correct. There are all natural diaper rash creams (i use cocoa butter) that one can use safely with cloth diapers, but this particular butt paste is not one of them. At a minimum, it will badly stain the cloth, and at worse it will coat the fibers and eliminate their absorbency. Desitin, which pops up in several stories on this site, is even worse. There are several sites on line that evaluate these products, and they will also introduce you to the most popular method for stripping cloth diapers that have been ruined in this fashion. It involves blue Dawn, a toothbrush, and a whole lot of scrubbing. As a general rule, you can use these products topically so long as you protect the cloth diaper with a disposable liner, but if you have diaper rash spread over an area too large for a liner to cover, it's best to switch to a disposable until the rash is gone. Some of the diaper services that I used back in the 80's covered this in their instruction sheets. Another wonderful product that can greatly reduce diaper rash is microfleece. I buy it in remnants at a nearby fabric store when everything is on sale, and cut it to the size of my adult diapers. Pee will pass through to the diaper underneath, but the microfleece acts like a one-way moisture barrier, so that the skin stays dry. On average, I am paying something like 2 cents per insert, which makes this a terrific investment. Back in the day, the adult diaper services that i used only offered one diaper for both day and night use, so at night it was necessary to insert regular baby diapers that the service also provided as soaker panels. My weekly order generally consisted of 35 of each. Bill might want to keep this possibility in mind if he likes to down a few beers just before going to bed!

Once upon a time, there was at least one cloth diaper service in every major city. I had weekly service for years in 3 different cities-- living in an apartment, it was far more practical than dragging a full diaper pail down to the washers and dryers in the basement, and it certainly saved me a lot of time in the process. Thanks for writing this story, which brings back warm memories. Hope you keep going because you are certainly off to a promising start.

Sally, if you are unhappy with the previous chapter, yank it, and try again. But in any event, there are lessons to be learned here if you are open to them. First, the last chapter in any given story should be, at the latest, the second to be written. If you know where you are going, you are less likely to get lost along the way. Secondly, use character development early on to avoid being driven down a path that you don't want to follow. The author of The Shrink, another story currently under way, took pains early on to evade the trap into which you fell by consciously giving the protagonist reasons for avoiding sexual intimacy. To put this more bluntly, the more depth that you give to the characters granted narrative POV, the more wriggle room you acquire. I cannot emphasize too strongly that fleshing out your characters is tactically the best way to avoid having the narrative driven by its own internal logic, which is what seems to have happened here. You can do this with a biographical dump at the beginning of a work, through a combination of flashbacks and reveals, or a combination of the two approaches. And thirdly, never lose sight of the implied contract between novelist and reader: any character granted a narrative point of view must have sufficient background to make his/her thinking, voice, and actions plausible to the reader. You have not told us why Jane feels and acts the way that she does, and introducing Mark at this late stage of the story without warning is equivalent to a mystery writer only introducing the murderer in the penultimate chapter. You are undoubtedly aware that this is a huge no-no. These are basic rules of the authorial road, so to speak. The next time you read a novel, see if you can detect them.

SallyKat, you did it well, and I say that as someone who has both published and edited. Cuckolding scenes are so commonplace that it is truly challenging to do it with some flair, but you pulled it off.

Bringing Patricia's insecurity out into the open is nicely done-- indeed, you have done a wonderful job of developing her personality in general and attitude to sexual intimacy in particular. When a woman reduces her mate to infancy, logic suggests that she will have to betray him by turning to another man to satisfy her sexual needs. In this instance, however, you have set things up nicely to avoid this overworked scenario. Like Eagle, I look forward to seeing how you handle the home wrecking neighbor down the block!

Not weird, just logical. A woman who reduces her husband to infancy may be aroused by his suckling, but babies don't have sex, so she will have to look elsewhere to have her needs satisfied. The really interesting character here is Jane, with her strong but still unfulfilled maternal instinct. Are there a lot of women like Jane out there is real life? Meeting a Jane is the core desire of an awful lot of us venturing into these pages! Can't wait to read more!

A really good story. Has anyone here ever had any success with the hypnosis tapes offered by the likes of sites such as WarpMyMind? I have often wondered whether relaxation tapes with subliminal messages would be effective.

To reduce a captive to a state of complete physical and psychological dependence, and to bring the captive to the point where he/she willingly conspires with the captor to continue the captivity (Stockholm Syndrome), requires isolation, with especial emphasis on distorting the captive's sense of time with hallucinogenics in combination with sensory deprivation. Jen should fail badly here because what she is doing is so amateurish. And she underestimates the power of nonverbal communication. Make eye contact with someone in the class, blink in a repetitive pattern (Morse code), and/or move the blocks around in a purposeful way (you can, for example, spell H with as few as 5 blocks), and her goose would be well and truly cooked. American airmen in the Hanoi Hilton, and American embassy personnel taken prisoner in Iran, were both paraded before the cameras verbally to condemn their country. And both were able to blink out messages that ran counter to the script. On the other side of the equation, there is Patty Hearst. It is possible, therefore, to get where Jen wants to go, so why not revise the original a bit to make it clear that she has done her homework and knows exactly what she is doing? A few sentences in the form of a reveal early in the story would get the job done. Eliminate, or at least postpone the classroom scenes and the other public exhibitions to set up the alternative endings, and reinforce the cat and mouse element that unifies the story with a view to building suspense in the manner of Hitchcock's Rear Window. Then, by all means, use the alternate endings motif popularized by John Fowles in The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Magus, because it draws the reader into the story instead of leaving him/her on the sidelines.

Life, and fiction, sometimes converge. In 1982, I was using a weekly diaper service. The lady working their order desk was a bit younger than me, and really cute. it took time for me to work up the courage to ask her out, but I did, and she accepted! I took her to dinner at a very nice restaurant, and throughout, I was acutely aware of the fact that I was diapered and she knew it. I hoped that she would invite me in when I escorted her home, and offer to change me, but alas. The moment passed, never to be repeated, but your story took me back to that night, which turned out to be one of the most memorable dinner dates in my now long, long life. Thanks for posting this story. Wouldn't it be nice to talk with some of the people who have worked at adult diaper services? They surely must have some interesting true life stories to tell.

If he gets to play with blocks in the classroom, why doesn't he spell out H E L P? The mittens would not prevent this.

Let me echo the sentiments of those who have already commented: it's great to read a story that treats incontinence and diapers as real life, rather than the typical AB fantasy. Due to a spinal birth defect, I have been coping with some degree of bladder or bowel incontinence my entire life, but this is a minor problem compared with being tethered to an oxygen machine or having to inject insulin every day. Kudos to Michelle. With her positive attitude, you have captured how many of us choose daily to cope with this problem.

You can control the smell by taking activated charcoal, but to be on the safe side, you should get a referral from your family physician to see a GI specialist. There are a lot of possibilities here, with the most common being irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's, but you might be surprised at how exotic the source of fecal incontinence can be.

Do you sleep in one position all night, or move around? I am fully incontinent, and one of the earliest indicators of trouble ahead was a wet bed when I slept on my left side, whereas for years I remained dry when sleeping on my back.A sleep study would give you hard data to work with; in its absence, you might try sleeping in different positions, and see if you wet more easily in one position than another.

"Tipping it down."

Hi, Thomas.