Originally Posted by
WMUTeach
Hand up! My kiddos arrived just on the cusp of disposable diapers. I recall them being called paper diapers. I had a few for emergencies but they were in their "infancy" and not terrific. A long way from what is available now. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when my husband said I could use a diaper service for kiddo #3. Guess he was tired of all of those tubs of diapers soaking to remove the stains before I did a final wash and hung then out on the line to do a final bleach in the sun. Line drying also saved $$. The service dented the family budget, but saved this mom of three so much time. My son called diapers, dab-ers,
I recall also the rubber or plastic pants were so soft and nice until you washed them a few times and they would get stiff and discolor. Ahhhh the good old days......or not. Tee-Hee-Hee!
"Dab-ers", so cute!
Gosh, yes, diaper service. I babysat for a mother that had diaper service for a while, that was back in the 70's, my teen years, and I remember she kept the big plastic diaper pail in her back porch.
Yuppers... how those rubber pants would stain around the elastic leg holes (pink), and turn crunchy after so many stays in the diaper pail and being laundered in the washing machine. I found hand-washing the rubber pants and hanging them on the clothesline to dry increased the life of the pants exponentially.
Do remember when rubber pants came in colours and prints, too (popular in the 70's).