Brief Biography Of Marion Donovan's Activist

Marion Donovan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the year of 1917. She spent her childhood hanging around the manufacturing plant run by her father and uncle who were inventors. As she grew up she lived in Connecticut, got married, and became a post-world war II housewife. She gave birth to two children. She got frustrated by changing her youngest child’s soiled cloth diaper, bed sheets, and clothing so she decided to create a diaper to cover, comfort, and keep the baby dry. As ideas came to thought, she went into the kitchen and sat at her sewing machine with a shower curtain in her hand and went to work. It took her several attempts but she completed a waterproof diaper. At that time rubber diaper pants were used but they would pinch the