One-Time Pleasure For Mommy

The 21st century is a lucky time for young parents – this is the age, when throwaway diapers emerged to their benefit. Of course, the other discoveries of last decades can also compete in the context of complexity and technological characteristics, but they won’t help any individual to cope with raising a little baby. Therefore, from the point of vitality and necessity diapers’ appearance cannot stay aside and, moreover, disposable (throwaway) diapers provide a possibility to enjoy the other charms of parenting toddlers.To start with, a history of throwaway diapers started in the late 1940s and who would guess that their inventor would be a successful business-woman, literary critic and assistant editor of Vogue Magazine – Marion Donovan? In addition to her professional obligations, she also carried a burden of mother of many children, which encouraged young woman to make the life-saving invention for modern parents. Being desperately short of time to wash diapers, she decided to improve the process of caring for a newborn daughter. At first, Marion cut up some wax cloth and curtains for a bathroom, and later she came up with waterproof baby pants that were worn over regular diapers. Donovan called them The Boater (relating to the boat word in English) – pants, which helped a child to stay afloat. In 1949 the success of boaters has already spoken for itself in the famous New York department store Saka Fifth Avenue; consequently, Marion Donovan received the rights (patent) on her invention in a cost of a million dollars.However, it was not the last one improvement in diapers: Donovan went further by replacing wax cloth with special absorbing paper and safety pins on diaper’s sides with metal clasp. A new patent was not slow to arrive - in 1951 Marion Donovan received another one. The sad thing is that throwaway boaters have not obtained huge appreciation among people, especially mothers, who believed that throwing away a diaper is rather impractically. Nowadays lots of scientists consider that the only person to carry a title of disposable diaper inventor is Victor Mills, the chemist in Procter&Gamble Company (by the way, it was the first company to sell diapers massively). Sometimes Donovan’s story is ascribed to him, except of her babies are replaced with three Mill’s grandsons. There is also a version that first diapers were created in the USSR to facilitate the lives of spacemen. All in all, to date diapers are known not as boaters, but Pampers, which reached crucial distribution all over the world. No one can deny that the 21st century became the time of technological advancements and discoveries and, probably, the world is likely to face new inventions in babies’ industry soon.