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    DiviDiaper Rises to the Occasion

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    You never know where inspiration lies.

    Two years ago, while their young son was battling health problems,  Tivon Jeffers and LisaRoxanne Walters-Jeffers’ were frustrated at how hospital staff deal were diapering him after surgery. To keep his urine and his feces separate in the diaper, nurses relied on a common practice, a double diaper method—cutting a hole in the bottom diaper for his genitals and slapping a second diaper on top. “It was kind of archaic—it aggravates diaper rash, leads to infections,” Tivon-Jeffers says. “It wasn’t working so we thought maybe a diaper with a divider or a flap would work.”

    After several trials and errors and testing on their son, DiviDiaper was born. The diaper has an elasticized W-shaped divider on the center of the topsheet, effectively separating the urine and the feces. There is also an optional-use catheter hole and flap that permits safe and effective separation of a catheter tube or super-pubic tube to reduce infections and contamination of the catheter.

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