How to stay on the changing table forever
September 9th, 2011 | 
Author: This post talks about my baby and poop. You know you were waiting for a post about this.
This morning my little prince woke up all smiles. I brought him over to the changing table and took off his diaper. It was a disposable (we do disposables overnight and at daycare) and was full of both pee and (slightly green) runny poop. I bent down to throw out the diaper. When I turned my attention back to him, his feet were slightly wet. Ahhh…the stealth pee. I clean up his legs, put the cloth diaper he was laying on into the diaper pail, and put a new cloth diaper under him. I clean him up. Part way through, he poops on the cloth diaper. Put that one in the pail; put another one under him; start the clean up process again. Part way through that he poops again. Wipe him up and throw that diaper in the pail. As I’m going to put yet another diaper under him, he pees all over that diaper and it hits the cover that I set out for the afternoon, a snappie, and the waterproof pad he was on. Put that diaper in the pail (so glad I have 2 dozen chinese prefolds!) and finally get him cleaned up and a disposable on him without any more incidents. Of course he was smiles and coos the entire time this was going on.
And now, here is a picture of him from last night before the Saints game:
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So I clearly remember when I was 5, my cousin was 3 and her brother was an infant, my mother offered to babysit for her sister & brother-in-law so they could have a little adult time.
Fast forward to after my infant cousin’s nap. Mom gets him out of the crib and goes to change his diaper (all disposable). My (3-year-old) cousin and I fight about is going to get the diaper for her. We resolve it & give her the diaper. Runny, green poop before the tape is stuck in place. Pull out another diaper, pee shoots into the air. Another diaper, more poop…and so on and so forth until we reached the very last diaper in the box. Which my 3-year-old cousin and I fought over so much that we LITERALLY tore it in half.
I have no idea what happened next, but I don’t think it went very well for any of us.
We used to always put a cloth diaper down under the kids whenever changing them. If anything got through that, we usually had 2-3 pad covers layered on top of the pad itself. If we burned all the way through that — it happened with twins — our last resort was to set them in the bathtub. If the mess continued from there, we could simply hose everything down with the shower head.