Changing her baby’s soaked cloth diaper, clothing, and bed sheets late at night in 1946, Marion O’Brien Donovan knew there had to be a better way to keep infants dry. Soon after, she tore down the bathroom shower curtain, cut out a section, and sat down at her sewing machine, determined to create a diaper cover that would prevent leaks. That first shower-curtain experiment led to the creation of a reusable diaper cover made from nylon parachute cloth.
