This is pretty much a perfect story. Curity prefolds are “the” diapers to me too. Mine came from Stork Diaper Service so when my sisters and I were done with them, all too soon, there were none in the house.
When my urges started I did find a pair of diaper pins I must’ve worn many times as a baby. They had the same kind of meaning to me when I played. I pinned myself in makeshift diapers I learned to fold (and less excitingly, wash) from the baby care book my parents had in their hands looking after me.
I have a special relationship with early to mid-1970s Pampers too. The purple Toddler Day and Night box
@cprdr shared above is
the gateway one. Not because I ever wore them or even touched them. And I never imagined they would fit me. But the ads for them were all around and made me want to be a baby that way like nothing else. The baby on the box looked sooo content. I would try to sneak looks at the packages in stores. I went through magazines at the library looking for those ads and they were some of the best (and only) reading about diapers I had at a critical stage.