Today I had a sh***y morning. Unfortunately, I mean that in the literal sense.
This morning I woke up to poop.
Now, that in itself wouldn’t be much different from most mornings, except that it wasn’t Madam Poopsalot’s fairly benign diaper-contained infant poop. It was my recently potty-trained 3 year old Muffin’s decidedly adult-like stinky poop. Thankfully he still wears a pull-up for nap and nighttime sleep. However, even with a pull-up the gross-factor remains high. Muffin’s “accident” was made even more unpleasant by the fact that he managed to get a finger in it (by accident he assured me). So, the whole crib was on immediate lock-down and scrub-down…and so was Muffin. Yuck.
With Operation Poop Scour successfully accomplished, I came downstairs to get Madam Poopsalot out of her cradle and she obliged the Baby Poop Gods by wholeheartedly obeying The First Commandment of Baby Poop:
Thou shalt poop in the first diaper just enough to necessitate a diaper change, but reserve enough to dirty the second (or third) diaper immediately thereafter.
Delightful.
Okay, so that’s about enough poop for Mommy to deal with before breakfast, right? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Madam Poopsalot disagreed.
As we were getting ready to leave the house, she obliged the Baby Poop Gods with The Second Commandment of Baby Poop:
Thou shalt hold your poop until Mom has got you dressed and strapped into your car seat and is about to go somewhere important, for which she is already running 10 mins late.
Today I was the Pooper Trooper. How absolutely delightful.
hmm. out of curiosity, just wondering if you have an opinion on those flushable diapers? There’s some kind of hybrid disposable/re-usable diaper where you peel out the absorbent stuff (after #1 _or_ #2) and flush it. Then you re-use the cloth shell….
Interesting. I hadn’t heard of those. I assume you are talking about gDiapers that are cloth on the outside but have a disposable insert. I’d be curious about the blow-out risk of those though. I think Huggies have a high blow-out risk (at least for my kids). We have been pretty lucky with Pampers. gDiapers sound like they are a good alternative…as long as the blowout risk is low…I have a low blowout threshold. I might look into those…
hmm. I’ve heard that pampers are more “blow out” resistant than huggies from many other parents… but not having 1st-hand experience (yet), I’m not sure what the design flaw in huggies makes huggies prone to blow-out failures…?
I guess the problem with gDiapers might be that the re-usability of them might be questionable if “blow out” accidents render them gross/dirty — then the whole point of them is useless, too.
bunch of links for ya:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080405220709AAIPX0F
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gDiapers/
http://omyfamilyblog.com/2010/01/gdiapers-rock-my-world-but-not-my-budget/
I may have to experiment with these gDiapers for myself someday?