Midnight in a quiet Connecticut home. A tired mother, a sewing machine, and a shower curtain. That small, stubborn act, I will not spend my life washing diapers was the kind of domestic rebellion that rewired modern parenthood. Marion Donovan’s midnight experiment wasn’t glamorous. It was practical mischief, the kind of invention born from fatigue and defiance. By turning waterproof fabric into a diaper cover she called the Boater, she began a quiet revolution that bought back something priceless for parents: time. It was 1946, the year after the war, when resourcefulness was still a survival instinct. In a small bathroom in Westport, Connecticut, a young mother of three stared at a pile of soaked cloth diapers and decided she’d had enough. Instead of surrendering to another round o

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