Bappers & Pop-A-Pants!
09-01-2024, 06:00 AM
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Bappers & Pop-A-Pants!
Was just having a laugh at the strange words my kids used to come up with when they were little and thought of this one!
Bappers and pop-a-pants was - diapers and rubber pants.
Yes, I used old-fashioned cloth diapers, diaper pins, and rubber pants on my children back in the day, and how in the world one of my sons came up with "bappers and pop-a-pants" is beyond me, but that's what he used to call them!
My mom thought that maybe because dear son observed me changing diapers and sticking the pins in, that maybe he associated me popping the rubber pants with the diaper pins.
Speaking of diapers and rubber pants, hands-up if cloth diapers, diaper pins, and rubber pants were the order of the day in your home back in the day.
Bappers and pop-a-pants was - diapers and rubber pants.
Yes, I used old-fashioned cloth diapers, diaper pins, and rubber pants on my children back in the day, and how in the world one of my sons came up with "bappers and pop-a-pants" is beyond me, but that's what he used to call them!
My mom thought that maybe because dear son observed me changing diapers and sticking the pins in, that maybe he associated me popping the rubber pants with the diaper pins.
Speaking of diapers and rubber pants, hands-up if cloth diapers, diaper pins, and rubber pants were the order of the day in your home back in the day.
09-01-2024, 09:02 PM
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No hand up for me. I tried cloth diapers for about a month. Too much stress for me and the baby. I used disposable diapers on all my kids. Johnson and Johnson had disposable diapers then and they were the best.
09-02-2024, 03:45 AM
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My son is 53, I used cloth diapers. I held on tight to the corner of the poop ones and swished them around in the toilet. Then flushed it and luckily I never accidentally let go. Every diaper went into a bin and luckily we had a diaper service that picked up the used ones and brought fresh ones.
09-02-2024, 03:55 AM
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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!
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!
09-02-2024, 05:19 AM
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One hand up and one down. First born had cloth at home and disposable at the sitter's. Second born started in cloth and slowly transitioned to disposable. I also had a wringer washer--no fancy new-fangled top loading washing machines for me!! Boy was I dumb!
DD's kids were in cloth for the most part--those expensive 'good for the planet' ones that were (still are??) all the rage 15 odd years ago.
DD's kids were in cloth for the most part--those expensive 'good for the planet' ones that were (still are??) all the rage 15 odd years ago.
09-02-2024, 05:57 AM
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Hand up! My daughter is 43 and I used cloth because every time she was in a disposable for any length of time, she would get diaper rash. Cloth for me almost always. Disposable only for travel until I went back to work when she was 14 months.
09-02-2024, 06:13 AM
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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.
09-02-2024, 06:35 AM
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Keeping motherhood simple and stress-free I can totally relate to.
09-02-2024, 06:39 AM
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My son is 53, I used cloth diapers. I held on tight to the corner of the poop ones and swished them around in the toilet. Then flushed it and luckily I never accidentally let go. Every diaper went into a bin and luckily we had a diaper service that picked up the used ones and brought fresh ones.
I used to leave the really bad ones to soak in the toilet bowl before tackling the rinsing, then as you say, holding on tightly to prevent the flushing of the toilet from tugging the diaper from your grip, up and down the diaper was plunged, a quick hand-wringing followed, then into the plastic diaper pail the diaper would go.
09-02-2024, 06:51 AM
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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!
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!
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).
