Tuesday, 24 March 2009

It goes everywhere!

So, it turns out that my son is remarkably good at projecting his poo across the room. (I kid you not.)

Claire was already downstairs expressing when I got up this morning at 6am and so I picked Jack up to change his bum and take him downstairs to feed him as normal. Jack was still a bit sleepy, but this wasn’t anything unusual, so I carried on regardless. I took his nappy off and began wiping off last night’s poo when all of a sudden, and in a split-second or less, wholegrain-mustard poo erupted from this angelic little boy’s bum and spread itself far and wide across the room.

In terms of the distance covered, we’re not talking a few inches here. We’re talking about 4 foot away, possibly more. All over the rocking chair, the floor, the wash bin, the pooy-nappy bin and all the way back to the changing mat that he’s sat on.

To make matters a little worse, he then obviously needed a wee, but forgot to raise his little hand and ask to go to the loo, so he got a little wet too. But this is all much of a nothingness really, as yellow-brown colour poo is tinting the room. All I could do is call for immediate backup. By the time said backup arrived, I had managed to clean him up, get him dressed and wipe up the wipeable bits.

I was trying to imagine the pressure needed to have built up inside a little baby that could recreate such effect. Whilst on the way to work this morning, I even contemplated trying to recreate the scene (in the name of science, of course), using a squeezy tomato sauce bottle, but only reconsidered after realising that
  • a) I don’t have a squeezy bottle and
  • b) Claire probably wouldn’t like it anyway.
Having said that, he later sat with me and he drank around 200ml of milk - more than he's ever had in one go before. I know what you're thinking... what it's done to the graph? I'll see about updating the milk chart and post an update here over the weekend maybe.

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