Name: Adam #2 Ages: 7, 8, 9, 10 Current Age: 36 On bedwetting: Very few kids, myself included, enjoy wetting the bed. As back in the early 70's it meant either sleeping in a wet bed or wearing cloth diapers and plastic, called rubber pants in our house, pants to bed. Actually, I remember that diapers and plastic pants were worn by a lot of older kids who were bedwetters. It was nothing to be walking through a neighborhood and see kids 6, 7, 8 or 9 out playing in the yard 2 or 3 diapers and a pair of plastic baby pants in a bigger size hanging on the clothes line. Sometimes there were a lot of diapers hanging on the line, meaning there were younger kids still in diapers all the time. A giveaway to a bedwetter was the larger plastic pants. On the diaper: I remember when my parents decided to have me wear diapers to bed for my bedwetting. I walked into my room that night and saw 2 diapers, baby powder and rubber pants on my bed, and I knew they were for me. Most of the time I wore the double diaper. However on nights when the family had been out to an amusement park or a picnic and I had a lot to drink mom would fold three diapers together and I wore a triple diaper. Mom did not want me to leak. As I got older I was taught how to put my diapers on myself. On the rubber pants: Mom mail ordered them but I don't know from where, so that they would be big enough for me and would not be tight in the legs and would fit over the triple diapers when mom thought I should have them on. I remember they crackled and made noise when I had them on. When I walked or moved there was always this crackling. But they always kept my bed from getting wet and that was what mom and dad wanted. In the beginning mom would put the rubber pants on me, and then I did it myself, but mom or dad would usually check to see that my diapers were tucked in the rubber pants, so there would not be any leaks. On having the diaper put on: Sometime in the half hour before my bedtime mom or dad would say to me, "Adam, it's time to get ready for bed." At that time I would go to the bathroom, brush my teeth and take my clothes off except my undies. I would go to my bedroom and climb up on my bed where usually mom was waiting for me and had the diapers, rubber pants and baby powder laid out on the end of the bed. I was told to raise my butt off the bed and the diapers were slipped under me and my undies were pulled down and taken off. Baby powder was put on my diaper area the diapers were pulled between my legs and pinned at the waist. At this point mom would check to see that the padding was in the right places. Then sometimes she would have me get off the bed and stand up while she shook out the rubber pants and held them open for me to step into and she pulled them up into place over the diapers. Other times she would put the rubber pants on me while I lay on the bed. In the hot weather I slept in just the diapers and rubber pants. In the cool weather I wore pj's over them. On wetting the diaper: I don't really remember wetting the diapers as it happened in my sleep. But in the morning I would wake up and know the diapers were wet. A couple of times when I was older I remember waking up in the morning and needed to go to the bathroom and stayed in bed and wet or rewet the diapers. On getting up in the morning: I would wake up wet, when I was younger mom would take the diapers off, as I got older I took the diapers off went to the bathroom and took a shower and got dressed for the day. I had to get up a half hour earlier on school days so that I would be ready on time.