diaper
noun
a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Suzanne Sommers of Clinton, N.J., was diapering her eight-month-old daughter Allison in 1977 when she heard a distinct pop in the child's leg.
From Time Magazine Archive
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