BabyJune Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Cloth diapers and vinyl rubber pants. I still prefer cloth and PUL waterproof pants even now. I've never tried disposable diapers due to privacy issues when it comes to storing and disposing of them. Link to comment
maxpower Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Terry towelling cloth nappies (square nappies folded either into a kite shape or triangle) with plastic pants (semi-transparent white or clear) - my parents were old school! Link to comment
WBxx Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 In the beginning I wore flat cloth with rubber pants (Playtex) and then at some point the rubber pants were replaced with plastic. Link to comment
brumas94 Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Was predominantly in terry cloth squares and plastic pants as it was the 1960s. Occasionally 'paddi-pads' disposable pads with a plastic cover and in padded cotton training pants for the inevitable 'becoming a big boy'. Link to comment
wettim1 Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 I am sure it was cloth pin on diapers and probably rubber pants. I still use pin on diapers and still call then rubber pants even thou they are made of plastic/vinyl. Link to comment
cookiemonster23 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 My mom said she bought Luvs. I also remember the brand of pull-ups I wore when I wet the bed - Goodnites. Link to comment
Phil Burnell Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Probably the same diapers I'm wearing today. Haha -Phil Link to comment
rusty pins Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 On 3/5/2019 at 6:17 PM, Phil Burnell said: Probably the same diapers I'm wearing today. Haha -Phil That's a long time to be wearing the same diaper! Probably really ripe and stinky after 36 years! 1 Link to comment
jimmyic Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 On 2/19/2019 at 7:43 AM, rusty pins said: Since I was born in the very late 1950's, it was cloth diapers. I was a bedwetter until almost age 6 and I do remember there were 2 types of cloth diapers. One were thicker and were pinned on, and the other were a little thinner and had velcro tapes to attach the diaper but even though I always told my mom she didn't need pins, she pinned them on anyway. I was always afraid she would stick me with the diaper pins. I don't remember the early days with plastic pants, but I do remember sitting in the shopping cart at the grocery store and my mom putting the Gerber plastic pants in the cart. Back then they came in a blue and white box with the Gerber baby on it, hanging on the shelf above the baby food with other accessories. I never wore disposable diapers as a child. Just like Rusty I too wore cloth since I was born in 1962. At age 4 I can also remember the boxes of gerber baby pants, along with all the baby food on shelves above the frozen food case. at the time I had two younger siblings, but I can remember my mom putting some toddler large plastic pants in the cart. Also like rusty I know who the plastic pants were for (and it wasn't for my two younger siblings) Link to comment
Smash-N-Dash Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Per my folks, I started in cloth right out of the womb. I don’t know how long after, but eventually they switched me to Huggies, and I grew up in their diapers, Pull Ups, and Goodnites. I can’t specifically remember which ones, but I was a Huggies kid for sure. Link to comment
nonny Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Cloth diapers, pins and plastic pants. For most of my diaper years they were picked up dirty and dropped off clean by the Stork Diaper Service. My two sisters and I are all 16 months apart (I’m the middle one) so there were a lot of diapers around for a while. We each had a laundry hamper in our room for years afterwards that had been our diaper pail when we were babies, with the Stork logo embossed on the lid. Theirs were pink and mine was blue. I remember realizing what the logo was as as a much older kid and being really embarrassed. Most babies were still cloth diapered when I start being old enough to remember. There were still lots of diapers flapping on clotheslines on my way home from school. The Pampers ads of the time were trying to get people to switch from cloth: ‘Keeps him dry, even after he wets.” i don’t have a single memory of me or my younger sister still being in diapers. I do have a pair of diaper pins I wore many times as a baby. Link to comment
rusty pins Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Cloth diapers, pins and plastic pants. Link to comment
willnotwill Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Cloth diapers and Sears Best milky plastic pants. Mom didn't switch to pampers until three kids later. Link to comment
carsfan Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Cloth and plastic pants. My younger sister wore them too and she was late for a cloth baby, born in 1992 Link to comment
Spiderman Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 My mom kept me in pampers when I was a baby. Link to comment
Little Sherri Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 I had a chat with my mom about this a while back, because I recalled having been in cloth diapers more than disposables as a bed-wetting kid, and there were a couple of pictures of me in them in her photo box. However, she said that she rarely used the cloth diapers, and had me primarily in Pampers, which were the predominant disposable at the time. I recall wearing the Pampers, and specifically being told that I was not allowed to open the diaper after it was put on, because back then the tapes tore the plastic and were not reusable. A couple of times, I remember my mom repairing a diaper with Scotch tape, if I managed to wake up to go to the washroom - I'd go to the living room, tell her I had to pee, she'd pull off the tape on one side of my diaper, I'd shuffle off to the washroom, then come back, and she'd use Scotch tape to snug it back up. Now, while I like the feel and look of a cloth diaper, I rarely use them, probably for the same reason as my mom - they are a lot of work! Also, there is no way I could conceal a cloth diaper under my clothes when I'm out of the house. Link to comment
dlnoir Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 I found a picture of the plastic pant I used to wear as a Baby it brings back some very nice memories and very warm feelings. I still love plastic pants which look like the one as can be seen on the picture. Link to comment
2sail2 Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Probably was cloth, I don't remember being soo hot as I do today in disposables. Granted, I was in a northern climate, so it never got hot (and we hadn't wrecked the environment yet). Link to comment
rusty pins Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 For anyone older than 52 years old, it was most likely cloth and plastic pants. Pampers first came out in 1961 but I remember it wasn't until later in the 1960's that you saw them in stores and on TV commercials. Probably more around the later years about 1967 that you saw them more. I never wore them as a child, but I do remember about 1970 my mom babysat for a 2 year old one afternoon and had to change his Pamper. I even think in the early years of Pampers they had to be pinned on with regular diaper pins. The tapes came later. Most likely if you were a baby or toddler before 1965 you were raised in cloth diapers. Even though Pampers were available as of 1961, mothers still used cloth as that was what they were familiar with, they trusted cloth diapers and plastic pants over a throw away diaper and it took a few years early on for parents to go with disposable diapers. Link to comment
AbabeBill Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 31 minutes ago, rusty pins said: For anyone older than 52 years old, it was most likely cloth and plastic pants. Pampers first came out in 1961 but I remember it wasn't until later in the 1960's that you saw them in stores and on TV commercials. Probably more around the later years about 1967 that you saw them more. I never wore them as a child, but I do remember about 1970 my mom babysat for a 2 year old one afternoon and had to change his Pamper. I even think in the early years of Pampers they had to be pinned on with regular diaper pins. The tapes came later. Most likely if you were a baby or toddler before 1965 you were raised in cloth diapers. Even though Pampers were available as of 1961, mothers still used cloth as that was what they were familiar with, they trusted cloth diapers and plastic pants over a throw away diaper and it took a few years early on for parents to go with disposable diapers. Yes, there were a number of things that early pampers had to refine before they took off, (or got put on). As you mentioned, the earlier versions needed pins, and even when the tapes were introduced, they were not that good. They still had the baby feel the wetness too, no “stay dry linings”. And the real early versions, had no plastic outer shell. You still needed plastic pants over them! I think pampers even offered their own plastic pants early on. I saw some for sale once. And don't forget, it took moms a bit to be convinced to switch over to the “convenience” of the disposable. Moms with more then one child, were less inclined to ditch the investment they had in cloth. Not to mention, other moms or grand moms handing down free cloth diapers. And pampers cost money with every use, lots of moms wouldn’t go for the cost. Back in that time, there were more stay at home moms, willing to do the added laundry, and save on buying diapers every week. Link to comment
bbtwin Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 original pampers plastic backed single tape hour glass design from the 70s Link to comment
wetatnight Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 I wore the 1970's Pampers or cloth diapers and plastic pants my parents couldn't always afford disposable diapers I hated cloth diapers Link to comment
Toyboy Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 I was in cloth. Thay were white squares with a red line around the edges. I was still in nappies at night until around 7 but still had accidents up to 13 years old. I started getting issues again around 33 years old and am now 24 /7 Link to comment
MegaChar Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 From what family has told me I was in Huggies Supremes/Cloth diaper for the first two years then swiched to Pampers. Didn't tell me why I swiched. Guess thats why I perfer the most absorbent diapers out there today. Link to comment
froggy Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 1950s baby, so originally in cloth diapers and rubber or plastic pants. Link to comment
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