Endora

... I was having a laugh with Lawsonmugs and Lynnie, in one of the game threads, as to telling on ourselves as to our age, thanks to mentioning older and dated things we used in the past.

So, how about it, did you use cloth diapers?

I did for all 4 of my children, and that was back in day of safety pins!

lynnie

I remember real safety pins. after they were on, you had to slid the top up and down to open. does anyone remember those safety pins? they were so a toddler couldn't open them. Yup, and toddlers couldn't get them off if put on properly. now all they need to do is rip the tape off. back then, you had to be a contortionist to get them off.

sewbizgirl

Yes... three in cloth diapers. There were Pampers and Huggies then, but they were expensive and the gel stuff in them gave my kids horrible rashes. LOVE cloth diapering!

That was in the late 80s....

Endora

Lynnie. You describe the exact pins I used. Locking cap pins. I laugh whenever I think back to the Dr. Spock Baby Book I had, and how it mentioned checking for an open safety pin if baby is crying. In all the years I babysat and was diapering my children, not once did I ever encounter a safety pin that had accidentally popped open.

Endora

And here I thought I was the only mother who was still using cloth diapers in the 80's! I was still changing cloth diapers on my youngest in 1988/89.

Endora

My goodness, three in cloth diapers. I had two and that was enough for me. Even then I remember changing diapers in the middle of the night and trying to put the wrong size rubber pants on the kid!

Endora

Triplets? Twins with another born right afterwards? Or three close together?

osewme

Cloth diapers for my DD in the 60's and they were not the "pre-folded" ones.

Endora

Same in our house, plain old sheet style fold-up ones.

Stitchnripper

My oldest is turning 50 this year so yes, I used cloth diapers and washed them in a portable sears washer I hooked up to the kitchen sink and had a maytag "porta dryer" that didn't need venting for the times I couldn't hang them outside on the line, which I much preferred and did most of the time except when we had a stretch of bad weather. Didn't have access to a basement to hang them in the apartment we were living in. I remember the pins and I kept them in a bar of soap to make them easier to go on. And the rubber pants. By the time the second one was an infant there were the early Pampers, that we needed pins for and of course everything seeped out. I only used them on a rare occasion since we were poor and they were expensive. I had the kind that were rectangle and I folded them to fit the baby, first a lot of times and then less times and then when they got older double diapered them. Ah yes, the good old days.