Originally Posted by maviskw

I breast-fed all eight of mine for about 9 months, but I made sure that they all knew how to take a feeding out of a bottle from the time they were really small. I never got the hang of pumping by hand. When I wanted to go somewhere, the baby sitter could feed the baby with a bottle, and I was free for the evening. That happened about once or twice a month.

We had disposable diapers 60 years ago, and liners, too. I used them for a few days when the babies just came home from the hospital. After that it was all cloth diapers hung on the line in the sunshine to dry.