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Blowouts

Every parent dreads this moment. You smell something unusually stinky. You pick up your baby and you feel something damp on their leg or their back. You remove their pants and realize the poop is all over their clothes and up their back. You are afraid of opening the diaper but it is the inevitable next step. It is the infamous blowout and it happens to every baby. Sometimes the best thing to do is simply put the baby in the tub, because some messes just can’t be cleaned with wipes. Blowouts happen, so the best thing to do is … Continue reading →

Panic Attack

My baby is dehydrated. Every single morning, since the day she was born, she has soaked her overnight diapers. Literally drenched them. Not usually enough to get her clothes wet, but sometimes. If they were cloth diapers, I could smell the ammonia aroma from a mile away. If they were disposable, the things weighed about 10 pounds. It made sense. During the day, I changed her diaper every two hours or so. All she consumed in the way of “food” was breast milk. She was a healthy, growing, well-hydrated little pumpkin. Of course her diapers were going to be full … Continue reading →

Poop Schedule

As a newborn, my daughter pooped every single time she breastfed. I could count on hearing and feeling a low rumble in her diaper in the middle of every feeding, and she rarely pooped in between feedings. Her pooping happened less often the older she got, even though she was still exclusively breastfed. It was after we introduced solids that her poop schedule became interesting. She never had a problem with diarrhea or constipation, thank goodness. We purposely avoided things like juice and rice cereal to steer clear of those problems. The changes that occurred in her poop had more … Continue reading →

She Thinks Her Poop DOES Stink

Back in the pre-solid-food days in my household, poopy diapers were something my husband and I had to check for. If our baby was fussy, we peeked in the side of the leg gussets to check for yellow. If it had been a couple hours since the last diaper change, we peered down the back of the diaper to check for any mess. Sometimes she had poop in her diaper for quite awhile before anyone realized the need for a change. I miss the days when we weren’t sure if a diaper was poopy until we saw the poop with … Continue reading →