Monday, July 29, 2013

Exciting Events Every New Mommy Can Look Forward To!


Maybe exciting isn't the right word..."unexpected" might be better or even "disgusting" or "gross." Perhaps you don't like to talk about poop, I know I didn't. Ask my old roommates, I would avoid the subject at all costs! (To their great amusement). Once you have a baby, be prepared for it to become an everyday topic of conversation. Here are some of the delightful things that new babies will share with you:

1. Spit up everywhere. Coming out of their little noses. Spilling down the insides of your shirt. Most of the time they like to wait until you are unprepared for it. Like when you are at the store or visiting at someone's house. Don't worry if it comes out of their nose, it's completely normal. I recommend always burping the baby with some kind of protection under them!

2. Getting peed on. A lot. This one is mostly true if you have a baby boy, but I've changed a baby girl before and she peed on me, they just don't do it quite as often. This is what I've learned: open up their diaper and then close it again for a few seconds. It seems like the cool air creates lovely fountains of pee that get all over everything, but mostly on the baby's head. For some reason these two boys really like to get me on this one. I think with my first son, I got peed on maybe twice. That's it. These boys are only one month old and they do it practically every other diaper change!

3. Explosive poop. It sounds like a joke, but it's not! So far each of the boys have gotten me once. I'm changing their diapers and they have a little gas. At least that's what I thought it was...turns out it was much worse than just gas. How do they manage to shoot it so forcefully at me?! So yeah, both times I've had to change my shirt. I'm just glad I didn't have my face too close at the time. 

4. Speaking of poop...diaper blowouts is another lovely thing you can look forward to. You would think that the diaper would be able to hold everything in, but that is not always the case. This was especially true around 6 months old when my little man managed to get it all the way up his back every single day for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure why it was worse at that age, but be warned, it is a tricky process to try to take off a poop-filled onesie without getting it all over everything. 

All of these things would have horrified me before, but strangely enough, once I had kids they don't seem to bother me at all anymore. Now it is just a normal, everyday experience along with loads of extra laundry, and I wouldn't change it for anything!

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10 comments :

  1. LOL! Awesome post! Thankfully my baby hasn't gotten me with explosive poop yet but I think he got my husband (and the wall) once! HAHA! Thanks for linking up with Mommy Mondays Hop and great post!

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    1. Yikes! That sounds even more messy to clean up lol. Hope you are having a great Monday!

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  2. Oh lord. I can relate to the pooping out of the diaper. My daughter ruined every outfit she had. It was awful! You are right when you become a Mumma, nothing is gross anymore. We've seen and done it all. I hope everything is going well.

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    1. I'm glad it wasn't just my baby then! lol, at the time I thought maybe I was putting his diaper on wrong or something :)

      Hope you are having a good week!

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  3. Thanks for linking up to mommy mondays! Oh the joys. About a month ago we had JUST moved to SC for my husbands job and I was visiting the Mom's Morning Out Program at our church to enroll my girls. This also happens to be the church where my husband is working (i.e. people already know who I am) I take HG out of the carseat and I kid you not poop EVERYWHERE. (This never happened with my first) I am utterly grossed out and don't know what to do because she needs to be put in a bath tub and the car seat needs to go straight in the wash. Instead I throw her in the trunk of my car and do the best sponge bath with baby wipes I can manage. Meanwhile I have attracted an audience of women in the office coming out to tell me that putting a baby in your trunk is probably illegal. Well let me tell you ladies...this poop situation going on here should probably be illegal too.

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    1. lol what a great story! :P I'm glad nothing like that has happened to me yet...it sounds like quite the adventure :)

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  4. This made me giggle... those little creatures introduce us to a whole new world. If they weren't so stinkin' cute, they'd really be a bother, huh?! LOL!
    -Heather
    www.stringtownhome.net

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    1. At least we can laugh about it later :) and since they are so cute, it's worth it!

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  5. So. Much. Poop. Hahahaha I know it's true! Ugh! Thanks for joining Mommy Mondays this week!

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  6. Love it! Gotta laugh about these things, right!? Thanks for sharing with the Tuesday Baby Link Up Community!

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