What goes in, must come out…!

Up until recently, Jack has been having his regular feed of breast milk, a.k.a. “Booby-Juice”. Nowadays, he has the milk as before, but with added foodstuffs on top, as I think I mentioned before.

Anyway. Luck has probably been on my side, along with working late and weekends at work for the project I was on, and so I haven’t really had to change many, if any, of Jack’s poo-nappies.

Before, Jack’s poo-nappies have been filled with a “whole-grain-mustard” type of poo (according to Ian at work!!), which is pretty much as it sounds, but I would add to that, that it is also a little watery. This is normal/ok/dandy, as Jack was having Booby-Juice.

Now, however, I have very recently found out that his poo is similar to before, only much thicker in consistency and there’s about five times the quantity in one go! Literally!

This isn’t really a problem, providing that he’s sat in a decent position when he does this ‘passing’ of the poo. Nappies do their job, and there’s nowt to worry about.

Unless, that is, if he happens to be sitting in his Bumbo chair-thing, which is a soft rubber/plastic type chair (looks a bit like a high-22sided potty) that allows babies to sit upright keeping their back straight, etc. If he’s sat in there, not only do you get a major echo going on, that reverberates around the base of the chair and through into the kitchen units and floor, but it also means that the poo gets squirted at high pressure up his back instead of downwards into the nappy.

So, the Bumbo needs cleaning, Jack needs a new version of whatever he’s wearing, which pretty much means everything, especially if he’s quick and gets a few fingers down to his bum or back area, as he helps as best he can to spread it around onto anything else in the vicinity that isn’t yet poo-coloured. When this happens, the job of holding his legs up in the air with one hand and using your other hand to clean him up, means that you need one more hand to hold his hand so that he doesn’t

1. spread even more poo about
2. stick his fingers in or near his mouth.

All good fun that most if not all parents have a t-shirt to show that they have been there. But it’s the sort of detail that they don’t seem to tell you about in antenatal classes. Nor when you’re in school learning about babies and sex and stuff. Maybe if they did, there might be a few more clued up parents, and hopefully a few less 12 years old mums and dads.