How to Make your own Diaper

What is the best improvised diaper you have created when you have no real diapers left or clean(if you wear cloth diapers)?

Before the internet and the convenience of buying in secret, I pinned on bath towels folded to provide the necessary padding in the right places. Then for plastic pants I would buy a pair of vinyl sweat pants at a sporting good shop and cut the legs off. It worked pretty good, but nothing beats the ral thing.

I used nice thick white towels and safety pins when I was a teenager living with parents. I could even wet them and then drop the towel in the tub, like it fell off the towel rack.

I sometimes used white plastic kitchen trash bags for plastic pants. Pull them up between the legs like a diaper and tuck them in your "diaper" front and back.

me2

Ok, so it not always easy going to the store and buying something, or to wait for it to come from an online store, so sometimes you just have to make do with what you got. So what is the best thing you have ever made from household items, and how did you make it, and how well did it work? ??? For me, the first diapers i used were made from a trash bag with toillet paper lining, and duct tape fasteners. sometimes with little extras like rubber bands down the leg openings, of a fabric liner cover. it worked well enough, did not hold much pee, and the poo sometimes escaped, but i made due untill i could buy some. and they did not look to bad either, lol

DLfarmer

I like this question, you took the words right out of my mouth dlfarmer.

For me it goes back to when I was a kid, couldn't get diapers. I didn't even really know they had diapers to fit older kids. Anyway, one of the first things I did was the trash bags. Sometimes I would put loads of underwear on, then tape the trash bag over them. Or a towel pined on, then the trash bag over that. One time I got up the nerve to go and buy some pampers, I felt everyone would stare at me buying pampers, but I did it. At the time, these were the old stile pampers, no gathers, just pleated which could easily be pulled out and laid into a flat rectangle. I put four together and used a needle and thread to sew them all together and keep them tight. This was the best ever I thought! just like a baby diaper on me, and it was. It took allot of effort to do this, so I took good care of the ones I made and made them last. Not long after I discovered I could do this, they changed those flat pleated pampers 😢

Luvs It.

Opps, I hope you don't mind a second post, I forgot to add this one.

I bought some toddler size plastic pants, two each of the same kind and color. I got the idea the backs of the pants might be large enough, if cut two pair in half then put the two back halves together. I sewed the waist and leg bands together and glued the crouch. They worked and fit well enough for me. I did this with terrycloth lined vinyl pants too. They worked out even better because the crouch could be sewn and were stronger.

Luvs It.

Well, I'm not a great seamstress (seamster??) but after trying a towel as a diaper, I went out and bought 4 baby receiving blankets and sewed pairs of them together to make two diapers. Later, I bought bulk diaper flannel off the fabric bolt at Walmart and made just plain rectangular diapers by sewing the edges of the folded cloth. These are great and I'm still using the blanket/diapers folded over as doublers.

I've also drilled holes in normal diaper pins and used small luggage locks to make locking pins...these don't work that well, but I like the idea of hearing the click as I diaper - I use my imagination to think I'm really being locked into my diapers.

I used towels too. I also used a trash can bag for plastic pants. They did not well they always leaked. I did get lucky though I found an old pair of my plastic pants and used them until they got to worn out and brittle.

I prefer flannel diapers-- very particular about the type of flannel-- a fabric

store in my town has been carrying a "diaper flannel" in exactly the right width

for me.- hope they keep this up as I love the feel.

I use about three layers with en extra edge fold at thr back- to keep them snug-

as a standard diaper. Then I make inserts. and layer the middle for desired thickness.

I've tried pre-fold gauze diapers and often use them overnight, but they are

expensive and take a long time to dry.

I like your pocket idea-- think I'll try that.

thanks, diaper me

I've found that a fleece throw blanket feels very nice on although it's very hard to pin.

I sew my own cloth diaper and have for several years. What I like best about it is I can make them as think as I want. I can get print flannel to cover them so they look nice, instead of just plain white.

Homemade diapers are fine in my book what i did was put 4 towels between my legs and then about 4 pairs of underwear that worked good when i was alone but SUPER thick. not reccomended for public.

Can anyone tell me how to make your own diaper out of stuff you find at home

Terry cloth can be bought at any cloth or fabric add elastic if you want a snugger fit in the waist and leg areas add a little practice with a home sewing machine and you've got the perfect diaper. beats any store brand.

Well bud, I don't think you're going to have much luck. I couldn't begin to tell you how to make a disposable diaper from scratch ??? All I could offer in the way of any help, is to tell you to use some kind of cloth, or underwear and use plastic trash bags taped on as a liner. Making disposables diapers is a machined process, and even any kind of crude make up would be complicated to say the least. Or if you can somehow get a large baby diaper somewhere, you could wear it inside your underwear. I wish you luck.

Luvs It.

Extremely hard to do and nowhere near as comfortable

I buy the material,which is flannel at a dicount fabric srote and And have a freind of a friend that ssews them up for me at aroundb $4.00 a diaper The dimentions are 45"x32" with a soaker half that size sewn in. In al I get about 18 really thick diapers for $72.00 plus material but they last me for years

😁 go on line find good deal on white flannel sheets you can make between2and 4 diapers out of 1 sheet depending on how thick you make'm. hint look for hotels that are going out of business.

I have recently started to sew my own diapers and they are working out very well. I am making prefold and fitted ones. Has anyone else done this. Also looking for a footed sleeper pattern in adult sizes.

I am trying to get a pattern for onsies and footed sleepers like I had as a kid growing up. My mom even had some for me that had snaps in the crotch when I was about 11. Never tried to make my own plastic pants, is it easy?

I am sewing my own. I am sewing prefolds with babyish flannel on the outside. I've made three and they are in the washer right now, hopefully shrinking a bit they are huge. I will post some pics when I figure out how. I have never done plastic pants but I would like to learn how to. Pants are so expensive and they only last about a year, so if I could make my own I would.

I've been making my own contour and prefold diapers for years and they work great. A sleeper pattern is a hard thing to find you might find them if you look in the halloween costume section of a pattern book, but other than that I've never seen them. 😢

I have found a place on line that has a possible good patterrn and I'm going to purchase it for myself to make. I can get child thru adult sizes for about $25.00 for all the patterns.

I know you can get both flannel and Birdseye diaper fabrick at a lot of sowing and fabrick stores, it usually comes in a 36" with. I have a couple that are about 8 to 10 foot long that I lay across the bed and fold into about 28" length which gives me a diaper that's 4 to 6 layers thick. It's a little bit of a hastel until you learn to fold them nicely, but there cheep! 😃

jonjon

I developed a technique where I take 4 or 6 21"x40" flat diapers and make an adult prefold which is a perfect fit my 37" waist. To increase the thickness, I layer 4 or 6 more diapers and sew them around the edges. Additional prefold baby diapers can be placed between these two diapers for even more absorbency. The best aspect is the diaper breaks down for ease of washing and drying. I get the 21'x40" diapers from Granitesmiths Diapers on ebay. For me, nothing is more comfortable or absorbent than a nice, thick gauze weave diaper under a pair of Lang plastic pants.

Takes me back to the days of Curity flat diapers and Pata Cake extra large super size baby pants from Woolworth's.

I have done so on limited occasions. Like Jonjon mentioned I got material from the fabric store and made diapers. I did a terry cloth diaper that way.

I am developing my own pattern for them and have been trying to find testers for it. I am working on a couple of diffrent types. what kind would be best? I am making:

a fitted back with a perfold like front that can be turn down for a thickef padded front.

a completly fitted pin/snap/velcro diapers that can be made as an AIO or needing plastic pants with them.

I am still way too embarassed to purchase diapers at the store, and i don't have visa to order them online...

so i was wondering if anyone has really good instructions to make a makeshift diaper for a size 4 female

Wel then why dont you ask the people on the internet how much it costs and ship them a money order or check by mail. most companys on the net have a way for you to send them money for the shipment. I do understand about being embaressed about buying them , however most people do not notice what your buying and if they do they never say anything to you about it. Its alot of mind games whe buying diapers at the store , thinking people know they are for me , however you could be in charge of taking care of a elderly person or family memeber who is sick. But like i said if you wnat real diapers call the people i use they ship quick and in plain unmarked packages,( H.D.I.S. 1-800-2-my-home) ask for the brief sample pack in your size about 15 bucks with shipping gives you about 20 diapers to choose from and some very very good kind in the pack. hope that helps ya out.

If you can put on a size 4 diaper, it is great ! Buying baby diaper is much more easier than buying adult one. There is normal / common to buy diaper for your little brother or sister; therefore, prepare a big bag (e.g. backpack) and buy one.

the package of Baby diaper is smaller than adult diaper, it can be easily put into a bag.

If you are afraid of buying, buy other things at the same time !

The only one thing is to make sure there is no one know you, so go as far as you can when buying diapers.

Good Luck ! I am looking forward to seeing your smile with the diaper on.

My favourite is thick, thick and thick. Starting with a perforated baby nappy as the innermost layer.

Next layer is two baby nappies glued together with duck tape, again perforated. The single baby nappy is taped to the two-nappy layer at the top and bottom.

Then an adult nappy.

Finally the outermost layer is cling film wrapped around tightly a few times. As leaks typically occur on the legs I make sure the adult nappy sits tightly on the legs. I found cling film works better than plastic pants as it allows a really tight wrap.