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Definitions by lorraine jorgenson.

Diaper pail 

Traditionally, a container, holder, unit, receptacle, or other, specifically designed to contain used cloth diapers, until such a time that the diapers can be dealt with. Traditional diaper pails are usually cylindrical in shape, white in colour, have a removable lid, and are made out of plastic. By design, diaper pails much resemble that of a standard kitchen garbage pail, and are an absolute must have item in any household where there are babies wearing cloth diapers.
The diaper pail in the baby's bedroom contained several days worth of wet and dirty cloth diapers, rubber pants, and baby wash cloths.

After changing the baby, I opened the lid of the plastic diaper pail, and tossed the soiled diaper and rubber pants inside.

rubber diaper 

Anyone familiar with cloth diapering has most likely heard the term "rubber diaper", or "rubber diapers" before. It's slang for rubber pants. Children are famous for calling rubber pants "rubber diapers", as one of my daughters did.
Mrs. Smith was in changing diapers on the baby and called out to Mrs. Jones to bring her in two diapers, and a rubber diaper.

spanking 

Spanking, a household standard in many households where parents are raising young and growing children. The action of physically taking a child be it a baby, or a toddler, and paddling the child on the bottom with the inside flat of ones open hand. Spanking is done either on a clothed bottom, or a bare bottom, depending on the severity of ones child's actions, and the strictness of the parent administering the spanking.

Spanking: The actions of a parent, a babysitter, or a caregiver, repetitively striking or paddling a child, baby, or toddler, on the bottom with their open hand.
"If I catch you doing that one more time (child's name), your going to get a spanking"!

"Ok, you were told once already, and now I'm going to give you a spanking"!

"Get inside right this minute! You know better than to do that! Your getting a spanking"!
In our house a diaper change was a "changie". The process of changing a baby's diapers. The proceedure of removing a baby's diapers, be it rubber pants, cloth diapers, and pins, or a disposable diaper, and replacing the wet and soiled diapers with clean fresh ones.

Changie: A diaper change.
As I walked past the open door of the bathroom, a woman could be seen standing next to a baby changing table doing a changie.