Homemade Diapers

[le Hollandais]

Do you make your own cloth diapers?

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I do. I use a combination of Zorb II for boosters and the largest size flour sack towels I can find. I learned about Zorb from Baby June. That stuff is, as they say, da bomb.

[ValentinesStuff]

I've used flannel, terry cloth, diaper cloth, baby diapers, and combinations of them.

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

Yes, they are not baby diapers. They are little girl diapers having been originally made by a mother for her little girl of 5 and still in use when she was almost 10

 

[Little Sherri]

I would say that I have made my own diapers, and conducted some modifications of them, over the years, although currently I generally don't. I use too many of them (2-3 per day) to have time to craft them and wash them, currently, so I tend to mostly go with disposables, with commercially made cloth diapers & plastic pants thrown in here and there. 

Before I started buying ABDL diapers regularly, I used to take lower-end medical diapers, and try to boost their performance. I'd take a Depends with tabs - the plastic ones - and then put packing tape across the front to create a landing zone, so the tabs could be opened and closed more than once, and I'd put a size 6 or 7 baby diaper in them as a stuffer, perforating the cover lightly. 

When I was a kid, I would extend the tabs on XL toddler diapers, using tape, once I outgrew being able to fit into them, and I made homemade cloth diapers using white pillow cases, which I would stuff with folded towels. I had outgrown my plastic pants by this point, so I used to cut the corners out of a large white shopping bag, and then carefully pull it up my legs, turning it into plastic pants. Bags were made of much heavier material back then! The bane of my existence was bags with printed logos on them - I would turn them inside-out so that I didn't have to look at "Dominion" or "Knob Hill Farms" on the front of my diaper, but sometimes the ink would transfer to my homemade cloth diaper. When my mom came home with white shopping bags with no logo on them, I immediately hoarded them. 

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

Back in the day, mostly before I was born, but even after. many or most diapers were homemade. I have seen baby diapers when I was little that were nothing like what was sold commercialy (the well known 21x40 or 27x27, the prefolds came out in '51) I saw square diapers that might have been the 27's but they seemed larger and of thicker material. I never saw the famous triangular diapers unless that was a particular fold. However, it would have been fairly easy for a mommy to make what she needed while waiting for the baby. I have heard that many rubber and early plastic panties were homemade. Also wool was used for panties

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[Alyeskabird]

I have made, and even sold cloth diapers myself in the past. Mostly I used flannel and or birdseye diaper cloth. Its what I could find at an afordable price. I was atempting to sell at the time, so making a good diaper that will bring me enough money to make it worth it required hunting for good fabric cheep. Planning to start trying to make plastic pants soon, as I am tired of most having tiny leg holes.

[~Brian~]

Nope:  Not me:  I am not too good at sewing hehehee

 

[Guest]

I have in the past, and I'd like to get back into doing it.  But I just am not managing much of anything of that sort. 

[WBxx]

Inspired by a girlfriend (now wife) in the past I purchased bolts of diaper flannel cutting to length for flat diapers.  I didn’t even hem the cut edges.  My flats were cheap and for my needs superior to disposables. 

[tuffy]

In the 80s and 90s I made my own, but converted to disposables when I found Molicare were close enough.  I'm currently using Babykins, but am planning to try making my own again in the near future.

[JacksonMorris]

That’s awesome! I’ve heard great things about Zorb II—so cool that you’re using it with flour sack towels. Sounds like a super absorbent combo! I love how customizable cloth diapering can be once you find what works. I’ll definitely check out Baby June’s tips—always looking for better DIY solutions. Thanks for sharing your setup! 

[Diapered Dave]

Back in the 80's and 90's, I'd take the 21x40 baby diapers and make adult size diapers out of those... Then I found Adult Cloth Diaper.com and bought those for many years. In recent years, I've bought Rearz cloth diapers, preferring the fabric to that used by ACD diapers. ( I love how it quilts up after washing a few times..)