I wonder what did people used for diapers before my time? Mean they really didn’t have the disposable diaper until the late 1970’s and they were super think at least the baby disposable diapers where I would think the adult disposable diapers where too and they didn’t have the choices of disposable diapers like they do today.
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Wasn’t the cloth diaper hard to come by too I’m sure much easyer than the disposable diaper
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Well, as far as I know, you had the swaddling cloth and that was it. Diapers became a thing when people realized that not restraining their babies was the way to go, which must’ve happened somewhere in the 19th century, at least as far as christian countries are concerned. Until then you wrapped the child up and changed the cloth when it began to reek too much, which, from today’s perspective, is quite horrifying.
Incontinence was also dealt with differently. I know that catheters were a thing and I believe to have seen at least one xylograph from the 16th century depicting such a thing. It’s been a few years though and I could remember this utterly wrong.
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Yeah your I don’t know what I was thinking
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Actually Disposable diapers started in the 50’s
But not until the late 60s and Proctor & Gamble’s introduction of “Pampers”
did they become a Standard/commonly used item
But, Those early Disposables did Not have tapes, You Still Pinned them on!
elastic leg gathers were also a Future addition, as was the Shaping of the diaper.
Pampers were Rectangular and ‘Fan-Folded’
My Sister was born in 1967 and started in Cloth Diapers.
She did wear Pampers, and ‘Sears’ version of those
Baby (Plastic) pants were still needed due to the moving of the diaper as the bay/child moved
Kimberly-Clark’s First Baby Diaper “Kimbies” gave us the first Shaped diaper, the Hour-Glass shape as it was called,
but this was just a folded pattern
narrowing in the leg openings
I do not remember how long they made Kimbies, They were dropped before coming out with Huggies
Those had the curved cut out leg openings with elastic gathers there to help prevent leaks
and not need separate plastic pants
Cloth Diapers were available in Most Grocery stores along side the plastic/Waterproof/Baby pants
If they had Gerber Baby Food, They most likely had Gerber Diapers, etc
Even in at least one episode of Little House On The Prairie, the sold Diaper Material at Olsen’s Merchantile
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Maybe moss and leaves if you go back far enough. Like to the caveman days. :rolleyes: Joking. But who the heck knows? That’s what the cavemen used in a fiction book called “Daughter of Kura” I read a few years ago. Both the baby and the mother wore leaf-moss diapers. (The mother to catch the after blood etc, but I digress. )
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I recall reading that diapers have been around in some form for as long as humans have been around. I think I read something about using types of moss as an absorbant material in the middle ages. It’s been awhile since I’ve looked into it, though.
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Yes Moss was used
Which Famous Pediatrician was on Hollywood Squares and talked about that
It was his Question
He said ‘they tucked it up in there’
Before T. Berry Brasilton. He was Taller and Skinny
Did segments for TV News shows