The modern cloth diaper

littleredfish

MIL made a comment tonight that we have it easy these days when it comes to cloth, because they cloth diapers they used were gross, and had to be swished in the toilet, and leaked because prefolds had no covers. You know, made it seem like a serious burden to even have to deal with them. Anyways, I know OS was snaps and aplix are very new by comparison, but I wonder just how new? How long have companies like BG, RaR, etc been around to make things "easy" on us cloth moms?

Gismo123

Your mom is wrong, there were rubber pants.

PipSqueak0313

IDK about today's companies, but 21 years ago I had the option of using the rubber/plastic pull on waterproof pants or a hook and loop cover similar to the covers used today over prefolds when I did the diaper service.

 

namara5532

I actually do still swish my diapers in the toilet, but that's because I'm too cheap to buy a sprayer. :P

Rubber pants were out there.  My dad tells me that his mother used prefolds and rubber pants on him as a baby.  They used pins instead of snappis, and they would soak diapers in wetpails before washing to make them easier to clean.  I don't know when snaps and aplix were used for modern cloth diapers, but I'd imagine that CDs getting more popular helped the companies get more competitive and make them more convenient to use.

LottaLattes

12 years ago when I CDd my eldest, most of what was out there for "easy" cloth diapers were OS Motherease fitteds and sized covers. The fitteds being absorbent but super bulky. When he got to be a year pr so old pockets became more popular, and FB were all the rage when my second was born now 8.5yo. And amusingly embroidered diapers were really big then too, some going for hundreds! I made my first and only 20 "dream" diapers which were applix pockets, as there were only snap pockets or applix covers that I knew of. All of these other brands are fairly new to the mainstream market, but even then we marveled at how easy diapers were compared to the olden days. And agreed with the others, even my 86yo grandma used rubber pants on my dad and aunt.

yodasmistress

My H and I were both CD'ed with prefolds, pins and "rubber pants" - basically a pull up PUL diaper cover.

sarenu1

My mom cloth diapered all three of her daughters with pins, prefolds and rubber pants.

We all had bad reactions to disposables, so my mom wasn't able to use them.

DaisyJanie

I was cloth diapered with prefolds, pins, and plastic pants, in the early 1980s. My mom hated doing the laundry. She had had a diaper service with my older sister, but we moved to a rural area and there wasn't one when I was a baby. Also I've seen a picture of me as a very young baby and it looks like the plastic pants were just one size. The one I was wearing was giant, anyway.

Here's a website I found: https://www.diaperjungle.com/diaper-history-timeline.html Looks like it's only been since the 2000s that CDs have been what I would call "modern".