Captain, we've had a containment breech!

[wrenb]

I almost posted this to Facebook before deciding it's not for polite company.

This just made me laugh. Danny was nursing on the couch when I heard the telltale squelches of him pooping. I figured he'd pop off the boob in a minute and we'd go change his diaper. Then I felt a damo little trickle on my leg. There was so much poop it had leaked out the side onto my bare leg and onto the couch cushion! And I've got dinner guests coming in 2 hours. At least they're friends we don't have to impress!

It gets funnier. I went to change the diaper and found two perfect voids in the liquidt breastmilk poop: the shape of his two little buttocks. I started laughing. I've never seen anything like it! It was so artistic that I considered taking a picture. Then I remembered the medium (yellow baby poop) and the logistics (how to photograph it without the baby getting poop everywhere?) and thought better of that idea.

Everything's washable so there's no disaster. I figured I could laugh or cry, and laughing is way less stressful!

Comments

[nidea.livejournal.com]

Isn't it an amazing color?

[beth_leonard]

It's nice to hear that someone who uses cloth diapers has containment failures from time to time, it's not just those of us who use disposables who have had it happen. I've got acquaintences who would have me believe it only happens to us disposable users.

Although I do have to admit it happened a lot less often with Amber than with Peter. We did get much better at appropriate diapering as we got practice. Thousands of diapers of practice... Tiny babies are the worst, espeically when/if they get to the "once every third day" schedule. Luckily we're almost done now. Yay!

--Beth

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

Chris and I had a good chuckle over this last night, and agreed that two hours before guests show up is far from the worst possible timing. If you did have to impress the guests, "while they are there" would definitely be worse, but regardless of whether or not you're trying to impress them, we agreed that five minutes before they show up is probably the absolute worst.

We've had containment failures with both cloth and disposable; my feel for the matter is that it's more common with disposables, but can certainly happen with either. Being experienced at diapering helps, but nothing can get rid of all containment failures. Every parent I've ever met had a story like this; the main difference, really, is how long it takes the parents to be able to laugh at the story. I think it's great that you were able to laugh about it so quickly. :)

Newt