Heather soon returned with a canister of baby powder from her mother’s bathroom, which she set beside the waiting diaper on the freezer-top changing table, and inspected Mandy’s handiwork. “I put lots of padding in this for extra absorbency,” Mandy explained as she smoothed the wrinkles from the finished product. “I never changed such a big baby before, but do you remember how we used to baby-sit that dumb Johnston kid who could soak through two toddler-sized disposables? I figured I’d better make it plenty thick for Kim.”
“Good idea,” Heather agreed. She patted the small mattress of a diaper with approval and, turning to Kim, said, “Well, Kimmie, we’re all set. Now you get to find out what it’s like to wear a real diaper.”