The sun hat was almost a mirror copy of that one he had to wear all those years ago. He had just turned twelve. A very young twelve as his darling Mummy always over protected him. She had produced the sun hat during a hot spell and made him wear it to school. Inevitably he had been teased about the childish garment. “A baby’s bonnet someone had said. On the way home a group of girls hassled him and started to tease him in the streets and he had to run hard to escape. It had been a long chase and after he gave them the slip he had a long way to walk home. It was whilst he hurried back to Mummy, who would be cross because he was late, the need to pee got stronger and stronger. In the front drive he had to stop to press his knees together to stop the threatening flow. When he got to the front door he could not find his door key in his satchel, the more he hunted for it in near panic the worse the need became. So near but so far. In desperation he rang the bell with a sharp pain pressing his need on him. After ages, or so it seemed Mummy opened the door. Relief at being home let him lose concentration for a second and there was a sharp tingle at the point of his willie. It flooded out, right there in front of Mummy. The light grey regulation flannel short trousers loved of English private schools turned a dark colour as the wet spread upwards outwards making a huge wet patch across the front of his shorts.
The stream, barely constrained, ran down his legs into his shoes and splattered noisily on the porch step. Mummy put her hand to her mouth “Oh my Darling, poor thing” as he burst into tears. She was all over him consoling him telling him not worry not to cry “”Mummy will sort you out; Mummy will clean you up”. Wet and desperately ashamed he let her take him upstairs, but not to his bathroom but to hers. He loved Mummy’s bedroom it was soft and pink, and gentle just like her. She used to let him help her tidy up and put her clothes away and fold up her undies for the drawers. She quickly removed the wet things and ran a scented bath. His sobs slowly came under control and the tears stopped flowing. When he was naked she wiped his face gently with a soft moist tissue that had a faintly familiar fragrance. As he recovered in the warm scented bubbly bath she busied herself in the bedroom chatting to him through the open door.
“You must have a chill, you know down there happens some time, you lose control don’t worry Mummy isn’t cross with her baby. He tried to tell her about the girls and the teasing but she did not seem to take much notice. You may have a little problem for a few days Mummy will look after you. No school tomorrow; that sounded good. She got him out of the bath and wrapped him in a big pink fluffy towel, so comforting so secure.
“Lets get you ready for tea, you can have your favourite pizza tonight” She said as she guided him to her bed. Not really understanding what he saw, she sat him down on another towel, when he was dry she pushed him back; it was not a towel; no surely not? Not a nappy?
Don’t worry we will keep you safe and dry for a few days until the problem goes away” she said as the nappy was folded up between his legs and from somewhere pins appeared and then some plastic pants. Up his legs they went. All the while Mummy was kind and soothing, no school tomorrow no home work, and you can sleep in Mummy’s bed to night. Oh how he loved to snuggle up to Mummy in her bed. He often got up early in the morning and crept into the large bed and she would sleepily cuddle him close to her warm body and soft nightie but tonight she was promising he could spend the whole night with her.
Boyish objections to the nappy evaporated with joys like this in store, anyway it sort of felt nice, snug, safe secure; he thought he might like it.. She popped a tee shirt on him and saying that no trousers or shorts would go over the nappy led him downstairs. They watched telly together as he ate the pizza and when he said he needed a wee wee she just said, “Oh are you better? You must hurry in case you have another accident”
As he went towards the downstairs loo a mischievous thought went through his head, no school, no homework, Mummy’s bed all dependant on a chill down there.
He tried wetting the nappy before he got to the toilet but the strangeness meant he could not let go. He went into the loo and stood there over the bowl before the wee ran out and spread warmly round his willie and the tops of his thighs. He hadn’t closed the door properly and his Mum could just make out what he was doing. Running back to the lounge he was all contrite. “Sorry Mummy I just couldn’t make it in time”. She smiled knowingly and cuddled him telling him not to mind little accidents will happen when Mummy’s baby is not well. That word baby again.
That night in her bed, warm and cosy, he buried his face into her breasts feeling so completely loved. When she gently popped a dummy into his mouth he did not protest and suc-kled on it happily, drifting in and out of sleep. She noticed he popped it in again when it fell out.
The next morning he was wet again and she quietly put another nappy on him, this time she found some other babyish looking plastic plants covered in nylon with little ruffles on the back. She then produced from somewhere what she called a child’s smock but it looked suspiciously like a dress, especially as it was more pink than baby blue and covered with teddies. It did not cover the nappy and panties either. He tried to object to this but rather too readily accepted her explanation that as he was just at home with Mummy who was giving him so much special attention he should not fuss so much.
It had been a perfect day. His Mummy doted on him, baked him his favourite rock cakes and even sat him down and fed him at lunch time. He just let it happen: to be fed was a sign that Mummy would do anything for him. His nappy was changed when he was wet. He just loved that day, it was calm serene and magical.
That night in her bed again she had hinted that normally these chills cleared up after twenty four hours, but maybe she would have to take him in the nappy and smock to see the doctor. Unsurprisingly he was dry the next morning and found himself back in his normal clothes for the day. She had also hinted that these little problems might recur and he thought to himself that they might in a month or so. Somehow, though it was completely unsaid, he knew his darling Mummy was indulging him, dragging him back to an unthreatening childhood and showing him how she loved him.
It never happened again.
It seemed like only days later she said she needed to see the doctor about some small problem.
She never came home. She was rushed to hospital. When he visited her with his Aunt he was stunned; shocked; surely this grey sick person could not be his Mother his darling Mummy? The operation had not been successful; the cancer was bigger than they thought. He prayed to a distant God as a faint source of help, listened to and believed his Aunt when she tried to be cheerful. He hoped with all the fervour of a small child that Mummy would be alright and come home again, but it was not to be. She got worse and in that dreadful hospital where he sat by her bed for hour after hour she slept most of the time.
Once she woke briefly and he half dared to hope. She just said to him “David you must always be yourself, promise me that”
She closed her eyes again before he could say anything.
When the coffin disappeared behind the curtain in the crematorium and they sang “I know my redeemer liveth” from the Messiah he started to cry and did not stop for weeks.
It was the bonnet or sun hat that had indirectly made him wet himself and had brought him closer to his true self than he had ever realised. His Mummy had of course known about his inner feelings as he had been slow to be potty trained and continued to wet the bed occasionally almost to his teens. An obvious fascination with ladies underwear even at an early age had given further clues. Then realising her liver cancer was incurable and that she was terminally ill she had somehow found a way of telling him.
His Aunt was kind and took him in with his cousins and looked after him just as though he was one of her children but somewhere bottled up inside was the memory of that stolen childish day in nappies. Only when he was at University did the chance, used very hesitantly at first, to experiment with dresses and baby things, occur. His marriage to Jane was an attempt to break away from what he thought were terrible perverted desires that had him playing madly with his little thingy dressed as a baby and then, when he had come and come again so he was exhausted, to throw everything away in self disgust and vow never ever to do it again. Of course a month or even a week later he did it again and the cycle of pleasure followed by the agony of shame and revulsion was repeated over and over. It only eased a little when, one day he was in a porn shop in Soho that he found an old copy of Janus, a magazine that specialised mainly in spanking and other femdom material. Idly thumbing through it he suddenly felt as though he had an electric shock. There on half a page was a cartoon by Rex of a man, a very obvious masculine man, who was sitting on a large pile of cushions clad in a nappy and the most gorgeous pair of frilly baby pants. He had a teddy in one hand and a tall very sexy woman with an hourglass figure was just about to give him a baby’s dummy. It was the first time in his whole life that he realised that other people wanted to be a baby. He was not alone in the world with a unique strange desire. From then on he felt better about it and as the internet developed he found out so much more. However the shame of what he did was deep real and profound and it never left him.
Somehow he never bought himself a bonnet and when occasionally a Nanny produced one he always begged not to wear it.
Now Jake was standing in front of him with the two bonnets and this sun hat that was a replica of that one his Mummy had made him wear all those years ago. And like then he was wet.
“Shall we try this on now little Sophie” He was grinning and talking as much for every body’s benefit rather than to David.
Jane intervened for a moment “The make up might spoil the ribbon shall I wipe it away, that’s OK Sheila?”
“Sure his make up has run down where he has dribbled anyway”
Jane got busy with a pampers wipe cleaning up his face murmuring little endearments to him about how he must look smart for his new bonnet that his Uncle Jake had bought him. Whilst her words cut into him making feel so ashamed in front of Jake, her presence close to him, so he could sense her body while her soft hands wiped his face tenderly and dabbed the humiliating make up away made him soft and plaint in spirit. He was becoming ever so babyish in the sense that he doted unthinkingly and uncritically on his Mummy almost regardless of the terrible humiliations she heaped on him every day.
When she was finished she said “ Now you are all smart again go and ask Uncle Jake to put your lovely new bonnet on you” Oh and don’t forget the curtsey!”
She gently guided him towards Jake. He could feel the silence in the room as he confronted his wife’s new lover who was now holding that so babyish bonnet in his large masculine hands. Hands that later tonight would be running freely over his wife’s body, teasing, stimulating, bringing her to ecstatic climaxes.
He dropped into a neat curtsy and as he did so he had a reminder that he desperately needed a nappy change. He forced himself to utter some ridiculous baby talk, cringing inwardly as he did so.
“Uncle Jake tank oou for my luvvily pwetty bonnet, pleath will oou put it on vor me” he stared at the bonnet in Jake’s hands hardly believing that this was happening to him.
He sensed the room watch him in fascinated silence as Jake, grinning hugely, came close, right up to him and slowly put on the bonnet. His face was just inches away from David’s as his hands went round David’s head fussily adjusting the bonnet here and there making it a snug fit and then he slowly pulled the ribbons tight and the made a big bow just to the left of his chin.
“There you are let’s go and look in the mirror shall we?” he pulled David gently by the elbow to the full length hall mirror and stood him there so David could admire himself.
There he was; his nappy was drooping now in the plastic pants with the extra weight, but otherwise he was the perfect adult baby; a much too short dress, prettily patterned, with generous petticoats peeking cheekily below but well above the plastic pants, smart Mary Janes in pink with white short socks with frilly lacy tops. The fresh dribble bib was in a white shiny satin delicately fringed with lace and the first wetness was starting to make it shine in the hall lights. Crowning it all was the cute baby’s bonnet in a matching material to the dress. It was neatly tailored to fit snugly and had a smart brim that brought memories of Beatrix Potter.
His arms and legs were hairless, now devoid of muscle even slightly podgy accentuating his soft almost babyish skin brought to a gentle sheen by expensive creams. He was a total contrast to the elegant Jake, standing beside him, a good three inches taller in smart slacks and a neat well tailored Aquascutum jacket; every inch the robust male. It was Jake’s look of sheer superiority that distressed David so much as he stood there, helplessly vulnerable, beside his wife’s lover. He was condemned to continue to act the baby, no let up, nor any remission allowed. He still needed a nappy change so badly.
He desperately wanted to say “Please don’t make love to her tonight please don’t Jake, please leave us alone” all that came out was “Fank oou vor my luvily babas bonnet Uncle Jake; me look velly pretheth in it”
David toddled back to the living room with Jake following him again making David so acutely conscious of the bulge down there filling his pants so that he could not help to fingering it amazed at its size and inadvertently drawing even more attention to his messed nappy.
“I think that’s worth it, she certainly knows how to charge that dressmaker of yours but she has done a very good job. She is a stickler for detail and was determined to get it all just right. Marilyn wondered who the hell she was with all those telephone calls. Anyway I had to send Marilyn out for the wrapping paper and she wrapped it all up for me.”
David froze. Marilyn his former secretary had wrapped up the parcel! She would have seen the rhumbas and those sissy babies bonnets! How could Jake have done that? Marilyn was a right gossip it would be all over the town now. She was well in touch with David’s old office and her friends there. No surely Jake would have covered it up somehow.