Go get em girl!!! yep, older people are having more problems. I think Nature is changing the rules and that will probably be very interesting but not sure I want to live through that. Time will tell.

I like to try and think positive and hold out hope for new technologies, treatments, and medical breakthroughs re:, but all in all, when it comes to the medical field and clinical applications, seems disposable products will always remain a staple.

The sad part of all this is, our foremothers (for generations) rinsed out and washed the diapers of their children, and so many of us did the same when raising our children, yet for whatever reason, today's younger generation can't wrap their head around the idea of reusability.

Mankind has clogged, bogged, and smogged up the entire planet with his waste and cruel ways of harvesting what he needs, and at any expense to the ecosystem and balance of nature, yet even through what we know today as to the damaging effects mankind's throw-away mentality continues to create, everything seems to remain the same. Very little change.

Just remembered how I would run the business end of the diaper pin through my hair before pin-fastening diapers, and how a dash of baby powder inside baby's rubber pants helped those pants slide over baby's little piggies, and up and down sticky, sweaty little legs at change-time!

Little piggies always seemed to get caught in the elastic leg holes!

Also remember the red elastic rings my kids wore around the tops of their legs from the rubber pants!

Most left the disposable diaper on too long and the first ones were not that absorbent to keep wetness away from the skin. I changed the disposable ones as soon as it was wet. Now there is a blue line showing when it's time to change the disposable diaper. It's sad an adult has to have a sign it's time to change the baby's diaper. I guess good at day care though.

I agree about the wetness indicators added to disposables today, it is sad.

Back in my babysitting days and with my own children I'd pull back the elastic waistband of rubber pants to check diapers, and with cloth you could feel the heaviness on a baby's bottom when they had a wet diaper. Checking was done regularly to help stave off diaper rash and irritation, and with the old-fashioned cloth diapers they got wet so fast, so checking and changing was constant.

Even remember sometimes pulling the rubber pants down far enough to unlatch one of the diaper pins on the diapers to do a proper check if baby or child was in their crib.

Oh i kept some of those thin cloth diapers, they made great dust cloths!!

OMG, yes!

I still have roughly a dozen and a half old leftover diapers I use for washing windows, wiping up spills in the kitchen, and for light dusting! The best!!!

And, I still have my kids old diaper pins stowed away in my notions basket and every now and then I'll fetch one to do a temporary repair or fasten something that needs fastening!

I remember the old disposable diapers from the 70's, where the absorbent padding bunched, sagged and drooped, there were no elasticized leg gathers, and if you tried lifting one of the sticky tabs to open the diaper up to check it for wetness, the sticky tab tore the plastic on the diaper. Oh, and yes... those early disposable diapers leaked bad!

you were fortunate you had the means to change the diapers so frequently. I thought they were supposed to wick the fluids away from the skin. I used cloth because there were no disposables.

Call me old-fashioned, but a wet diaper is a wet diaper.

I remember when Pampers came out with a commercial that bragged that their diapers were good for 12 hours, and I sat there dumbfounded, couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing.

I chose to use cloth diapers strictly because of my old-fashionedness, that, and the fact I grew up the oldest and changed my baby siblings cloth diapers all the time, not to mention all the kids I babysat in my teens around the neighbourhood that wore cloth diapers, helped make the process of choosing to use cloth diapers with my own kids automatic.