Hi folks, it's been one year since I posted here with questions on using cloth diapers for the first time. I was very reluctant to come to grips with using an actual "diaper" - after all, the briefs I was using weren't diapers. They were protective underwear. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and do it. So that's what I did.
Now I've got a supply of over 2 dozen diapers, plus pins and plastic pants. I have been wearing cloth diapers for urinary incontinence exclusively now with the exception of sweltering summer days. I find the comfort level superior - it's just a hell of a lot more comfortable to wrap yourself in soft fabric than paper, plastic, and chemicals. Yeah it's bulky but I got used to it. And I still turn beet red when I get a glimpse of myself in the mirror wearing a big diaper. But I'm in the privacy of my own - not Main Street. Plus I take more comfort in looking like an overgrown brat then a hospital patient. More like I'm on my way to a frat hazing than an oncology ward.
My comfort level has increased both physically and emotionally - thanks to this he support of folks here. Urinary issues aren't bar talk - so chatting here was like shooting the breeze over a beer but with a rather esoteric and humiliating topic - diapers. But better that than glass eyes, prosthetic limbs, and iron lungs. I could have it much worse. A reminder of what I read decades ago (author forgotten) - no matter how bad things are, someone has it much, much worse.
Thanks again ladies and (mostly) gents. Guess women are a bit more shy with private issues. If anyone reading this is bashful about having to wear diapers - can I be your textbook example? It isn't so bad, and you can make yourself comfortable. You've got plenty of company (just watch the TV ads) and, as I said before - just suck it up and do what works best. For me it's gauze diapers, pins, plastic pants. I came into the world that way. Looks like I'll be leaving that way. But not for a long time.
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