Does Anyone Remember Wearing Luvs?

Does anyone remeber wearing LUVS size large diapers to bed in the 1980S?

I didn't wear them, I was to old for them. But, I remember them, you can tell by my screen name.

Luvs It.

Im not really goin to jump into this one and tell ya all how i much i despise the new baby diaper revolution... it's more like baby diaper pooin a big devolution cuz it's nutin but sh*t... super thin, cloth cover etc... (takes a shot of ???) well now thats out my system what the hell can be done about it now... can't wait for the day where my diaper becomes a news paper :😃

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im not really goin to jump into this one and tell ya all how i much i despise the new baby diaper revolution... it's more like baby diaper pooin a big devolution cuz it's nutin but sh*t... super thin, cloth cover etc... (takes a shot of ???) well now thats out my system what the hell can be done about it now... can't wait for the day where my diaper becomes a news paper :😃

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dear krazy-- why don't you try good old cloth diapers-- they're pretty comfy-- real babyish-

and you can make em as thick as you want! plastic pants come in many different colors,

styles even prints.

I was in cloth diaper as a baby but when i was 5 my mom put me in my sisters luvs i was sick and pooping my pants that is how i got to like diapers

I vaguely remember nappies. they dont seem as crinkly now though, less plastic i guess and the patterns are different.

Not too many people remember things when they were just a baby. But I somehow remember that the box of Luvs diapers had a pitograph symbol of a baby wearing a diaper on the box. One time they made the diapers pink for girls and blue for boys, knowing that boys and girls need protection in certain areas of the diaper the most.

Maybe I do remember riding in the shopping cart while taken to the store and passing by the isle selling baby diapers. But that was a very long time ago. I also remember that Pampers had made a bigger diaper for babies still having problems getting toilet trained. Since parents tend to push the toilet training age forward a little faster and the baby might feel pressured. So only the baby knows when the time is right.

No they were before my time soz

No they were also after I was a baby and a child in need of wearing diapers. I wore cloth diapers and plastic pants. But my nieces wore them a lot and I always liked them. But being girls they all were potty trained between there 2nd and 3rd birthdays. And none of them wet there beds either.

Yeah luvs are my favorite diaper out of all of them. Well...they used to be. When they got rid of Barney I didn't like them as much. Plus that really really good smell they had seemed to vanish.

Plastic-backed disposables 4-eva!

Unfortunately, no. I do remember seeing lots of toddlers in them in the 80's though. I also remember that they looked way more comfy than the cloth diapers I was wearing!

By the time Luvs came out, I was in my early 20s and I never used them because they were "fitted" with the elastic around the leg openings--because of this they couldn't be repurposed into diapers big enough to fit me. Instead--during that era--my "disposable" era because I still lived with my parents and it was almost impossible to have, wear, wash and hide cloth diapers**--I'd get the large toddler-sized Pampers in the purple box, tape two of them together lengthwise (overlapping them a bit to make them the right length) and use those. But I definitely remember Luvs and when they came out.

**It was almost impossible to enjoy any sorts of cloth diapers, period. There were none made that were adult size that I could find, there was no internet and the only place that sold adult incontinent supplies was a medical supply store. I once went in there and all they had was a big case of flat, non-perfumed, square, thin diapers called "Disposable Adult Diapers". These were probably what was then used at nursing homes. I bought a box then the guy working there kept asking me my name and for my insurance information. He was a nice guy and wanted to be helpful but I didn't want to give out my name, and I was still on my parents' insurance and did not want them to get back a statement listing that insurance had just bought me a box of diapers! He kept asking, I finally told him they were for my brother and can I just pay for these and leave? They were such horrible diapers that after trying one or two, I ended up using the rest of them for "changing pads" or to put under me in case my other makeshift diapers leaked.

And those other makeshift diapers were always either the Pampers taped together as above, or the old "towels and trash bags" thing. It was also possible to buy actual cloth baby diapers in the toddler size and stuff those inside the towels but there again, living with parents it was almost impossible to wash them (I often ended up going to a laundromat). It wasn't until a few years later when I met the wonderful girl who is now my wife, who knew how to sew and started taking cloth baby diapers and sewing them together to make real, soft, flannel, thick baby diapers FOR ME. She also bought baby plastic in white / blue / pink and elastic and made me my first real baby plastic pants. (And people wonder why I married her...ha ha).

This went on well into the 1990s when this stuff finally started showing up on the Internet, which makes it so much easier these days...!

Luvs Pampers and all of the disposables came out and damaged the cloth diaper industry. It took very few years for cloth diapers to all but disappear in the market. Mom had a friend that worked in an Extendicare unit for the Challenged Folks. She would supply Mom with boxes of diaper samples for testing purposes. These diapers were much bigger in size than the normal baby sizes available. Tape tabs to hold them on really sucked and had funny little diaper pin pictures on the tapes. Non the less they were not very good or comfortable to wear and use.

As always, myself or my sister Molly were the test subjects for these strange new diapers. We spent about a week being full time in what Grandma called paper diapers. They were very noisy and very bulky. We hated them and worse yet they stank of that baby fresh diaper smell.

Once the tests for Mom were done, she allowed us to wear for a couple days some of her really softees and plastic pants. Molly skipped the cloth diapers after she just wanted out of diapers for good.

All came to an end three years later when Mom sold out of the slowing cloth diaper business. Seems kind of ironic now cloth diapers and natural reusable products are making a come back in the market place. Dam if Mom were still alive today she would probably still be testing some kind of diapers on me.