Originally Posted by
Stitchnripper
My boys were born before disposable diapers were a thing. So I used cloth diapers and plastic "rubber" pants. I remember my baby brother had what felt like rubber pants over his diapers. We did have diaper liners. I could slide the mess into the toilet. Tried diaper service for a month. Didn't like that. Bad diapers etc. we weren't of means so just did what other mothers around me did. I also hung diapers on clothesline if weather permitted. I was lucky enough to have a Maytag porta-dryer that didn't need venting and did about 20 diapers at a time. Also had washer that connected to kitchen sink. Truly a blessing.
Diaper liners, yes, I remember them.
I used diaper liners (flushable ones) for the first handful of weeks after each of my babies were born. Being able to unpin a dirty diaper, rollup the diaper liner and flush it, made for easy cleanup, especially during those early meconium poop days.
Found that once my kids were up and mobile (crawling and toddling), the diaper liners never stayed put. I'd lay a liner inside the diaper, pin-fasten the diaper, put on the rubber pants, and the kid was off, and when I'd check them for wetness an hour later, the diaper liner would be sitting in a rolled up, bunched-up ball inside the bottom of their diapers, but do remember adding a liner for nighttime occasionally if one of my kids had the start of a diaper rash or irritated bottom.
With my baby siblings they had plain old white vinyl pull-on pants, which we always called - "rubber pants".
As for drying, I used a clothesline, too. I remember the long row of diapers and rubber pants that stretched from back porch, all the way out to the far corner clothesline post in our backyard. Back then all of the neighbourhood moms had diapers drying on their clotheslines.