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[GiaGiovanni]

108. Depends on the age group. It was the late-60s and 70s that really brought "disposables"

An example: my great aunt had 5 children, all born in the 1960s. With the first three, she used cloth diapers and breastfed. That's what everyone did. But there was a real change in the late 60s, and when the last two were born, she used Pampers (which was all there was back then in disposables) and fed the babies Similac. This was on the advice of her doctor who told her that disposable diapers produced less diaper rash and discomfort for the baby and that Similac ("formula&quot was somehow much better for the baby than breast milk. Male doctor, go figure.

At any rate, that generation of young adults in the 1960s/70s was fed a lot of garbage, most of it corporate-backed, that encouraged them to waste and use disposable stuff. They didn't start out that way.