The guests at Molly Hawkins birthday party consisted of 5 other girls aged from and 10-15 months old, 4 girls from Ollie’s class, myself and 3 other girls from my class and of course Ollie. Most of the baby girls were in overalls. Others, in dresses, had tights to cover their diapers.
Ollie on the other hand just wore his short dress, booties, mittens, clear plastic panties and that very visible diaper. A diaper change for Ollie was needed as soon as he arrived. He lay on a mat next to the birthday girl. As I changed him I teased him about being such a wet little girl. Stacey, who was changing Mollie, made very similar comments.
I think Ollie may have been relieved to be pinned into 1 cloth diaper rather than the 3 we had usually used. There was a reason for this. Each of the bigger girls took a turn at giving Ollie a baby bottle. The bottles contained baby formula and something more. Over the three hours of the party Ollie experienced 7 diaper changes. Each time he was lain next to an infant girl undergoing the same treatment. The little ones did not understand the teasing words and thought the tone was sweet. Ollie knew he was being humiliated.
The little girls and also the older kids had sweet nice food. Ollie got spoon fed his least favorite veggies strapped into his huge High Chair.
Ollie thought that this was the worst day of his life. He was wrong.
The next day, Sunday, another Mollie was invited to our home. It was Mollie Stevens, Leonie’s third grader sister. She was there because her youngest sister Lucy was there. It was Lucy’s 3rd birthday. We decided to host the party.
Ollie spent most of the party in a play pen. Girls from 30 months to about three and a half were having lots of fun. Mollie, who arranged Lucy’s party, had verified something. All the girls were potty trained.
A lot of time was spent saying:
“Isn’t Ann a clever girl using the potty...?â€
Or
“Aren’t you a big girl Lucy using the big girl potty?â€
Ollie on the other hand was dressed in a diaper. Again it was a single diaper. The little ones just out of diapers thought it was funny seeing the big person just lie down and let his sister, mom or aunt change him.
That evening as I was spoon feeding Ollie he asked a question:
“You can’t put me in baby clothes at school, can you?â€
Mom talked to him:
“Well your diapers can easily go under your tartan skirt and petticoat. Ollie, you know they have a little day care place right in your High School. They want teachers who have kids to come back to work as soon as possible and they do not want girls who have babies to young to miss out on school.
“Well the girls in the shop class have done some work on the baby changing area. The new changing table is much bigger and sturdier. It will still do just fine for little ones, but it will also suit bigger babies.
“Oh and Stacey will be around to collect you. We are a bit worried you might try to miss school so she will hold your hand and walk you there. Oh and she will keep an eye on you. BABIES do not go to the bathroom and Stacey is happy to change your diapers when needed.
“One more thing, it is nearly bed timeâ€
I bathed ‘baby’ and lay him on his crib. He submitted to being diapered. He was a bit surprised that at first I only pinned one side of the diapers. I said:
“One more thing, I hope you get lots of wet diapers but we do not want you having stinky ones at school.â€
With that I squeezed 3 suppositories into his bottom, finished pinning the diapers and put him into plastic panties and his cartooned ‘jamies.
He was very stinky when he was woken up at 6am. Aunt Janet told him after she removed his dirty diapers and washed that delicate area:
“We need to make VERY sure that there are no stinky dydees at school.â€
She had taken the precaution of strapping Ollie onto the changing table. He was gagged by his pacifier. She had pinned one side of his diapers. Then he saw what I wheeled in. He tried to resist but Aunt Janet held his legs in the air. I slipped the tube into the relevant area and gave him his first morning enema.
Aunt Janet pinned the other side of diapers and put him into plastic panties very quickly. I think he had let the contents of the enema but the time he was secure in his High Chair. That was how he was when Stacey came to collect him. She changed him and put him into his tartan skirt.
Stacey told me about my brother’s week.
“The great thing is that we do not have to have every day the same. Sometimes I pin him into just one diaper. That means he needs lots of changes, which are very humiliating. At other times we pin him into three, or even four. Now that means he can go a while without changing but of course it makes it WICKED obvious what kind of undies he has on.â€
During the next week several moms and big sisters of older boys came to visit us at home. We explained the routine as we teased, fed, changed and looked after ‘baby’.
“He is allowed an hour for homework.â€
Mom said, as she pointed to my brother. He was doing homework, which he had often not done before the petticoat era. His mittens had been removed but he was firmly strapped into the High Chair wearing visibly sagging diapers.