Let me offer the following disclaimer. I have not researched this topic thoroughly but speak mostly from a 'hands-on' perspective. Okay, I understand that some kinds of throw-away baby-diapers can be traced back to16th century England. More currently some woman devised a toss-away 'poo-poo' catcher in the1940's and then Proctor & Gamble along with others commercialized the 'pamper diapers' in the early 1960's. Well, that's the decade Mel & Gerry Roustio had three babies. Perhaps our choice electing to use the traditional cloth diaper over disposable diapers indicates that we were once 'conservatives' rather than the hopeless liberals we are today..
We were cloth-diaper parents opting for that diaper bucket. We are survivors of that colorless ammonia-gas-smell caused by that pungent smell created by trapped baby pee. Back in those cloth diaper days, we would remove the baby's cloth diaper, shake out any poop into the toilet, flush the toilet and then as fresh water entered the toilet bowel, we would shove the diaper down into the water and rise as much pee and poop soil from the cloth. After ringing out the cloth, we then used our foot to engage the bucket's pedal, which opened the lid allowing us to dropped the diaper into the bucket for later washing. The ammonia smell started a brief eye-watering episode.
In recent years, I've watched my children and some grandchildren change soiled baby pampers. They drop measurable poop into a toilet, wrap the throw-away diaper into a ball perhaps place in a plastic bag before tossing into the trash. Like all parents, especially the daddy's they make "pee-you" sounds. I think, REALLY?
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