Let's talk poop!
(Not in the mood for fecal conversation? Head over here, to my spankin' new product review blog where I discuss the spraylicious properties of the Kinesys sunscreen that the Parent Bloggers Network sent me.)
Back to poop.
And raisins. Which are Miss Dub's new favorite treat. The girl can consume them like a banshee, assuming banshees are babies who eat raisins in heaping handfuls.
I like them because they're cheap and contain one ingredient: grapes. Miss Dub likes them because ... well, who knows? She doesn't say much besides "Duck, duck, duck, bloozabur!" these days.
But after feeding her two good boxes worth of them the other day - partly because they did a really good job of keeping her quiet at Costco -I was in for a surprise. It came time to change her diaper, and while I should have been tipped off by the serious effort her contribution had taken, I was shocked to discover something inside when I opened it.
Raisins. Completely whole, untouched raisins. You'd think I'd dropped them in there, except for their less dehydrated appearance.
I wanted to say, "Dear goodness child, you have a stinky vineyard growing in your diaper!"
Instead I said something like, "What a good poopie you made!" because someone once told me that positive diaper talk helps encourage easy potty training, and I'm too scared to test the theory otherwise.
I'm slightly concerned for a few reasons - Is Miss Dub not chewing her food? How are these raisins in such completeness? (Although, only a third of them seem to make it to sunlight again.) Also, how bad does that hurt considering the size of raisins in proportion to her trap door is pretty close?
Finally, am I not supposed to feed her raisins? Must I head straight back to puff cereal and cheese cubes?
And while we're being disgusting - and doesn't it feel good sometimes? - what food makes for the worst diapers in your opinion? My BFF always says, "Wait until the McDonald's chicken nugget diapers!" And, to be honest, I'm happy to wait.
Thoughts? The grosser, the better. I'm just feeling naughty today.
8.22.2007
My raisinette
Posted by Mrs. Dub at 7:20 AM
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21 comments:
Well, you probably know that I've been changing really sick diapers at my house lately. Diarrhea is just wrong for kids to have!
But the diapers that I hate changing the most are the ones pre-potty training. You know, when your kid really should be using the potty because he has what we like to call "Man Poo" but just isn't "ready" to be potty trained yet. It makes me want to vomit.
And don't even get me started about changing another child's diaper. I just can't do it. Not even if the child is a niece or nephew. The thought gives me dry heaves.
I once called a neighbor to change another neighbor kids diaper who I was babysitting. "I will totally buy you a diet coke if you will just change her diaper for me, please!" And she totally did. I still love her for that!
gotta say that the crayons that cruz consumed the other day was the most "unique." perhaps he'll be an artist. the craziest you ask?.....i think it would have to be the beach diapers. i could seriously make a sand castle out of those diaper contents.
Eww, non-relative's diapers are the worst. That's so funny about the diet coke Mandee. It's amazing how our own kids' seem less objectionable. My kids haven't consumed anything too weird but I once did search for a swallowed dime of my then 3-yr-old... and found it.
i love your blog. and while i never have anything to contribute mom-wise, because i'm not one yet, i still love reading whatever you come up with.
and crazy that you should be talking about poop today because that is exactly what the air in irvine smells like today. uncanny. i thought it was just me, but a walk outside confirmed that something like manure was falling from the sky. or being sprinkled on lawns. or just being pooped out from children and cows all over town.
Mrs. Dub,
This is something completely non-related to today's topic at hand, but it's something I've been wanting to tell you for AGES! YES you can sew ribbons onto shoes!!!!
As a matter of fact my favorite pair of shoes (and I have a major obsession with shoes, more like a disease) is a pair of pumps that have all kinds of different colored, textured & sized beautiful ribbons sewed together on them. I LaaahhhoOoOOOooVVEE them!!! Besides how pretty they are I love how unique they are.
Sadly I purchased them 2 years ago so I never told you of them for fear of disappointing you that you could not buy them for yourself. WELL it might be your lucky day (and thus my unlucky day as I will no longer be unique or the envy of all the other chic chicks at the single's ward. gag) Anyway I digress, I've noticed recently two places you can find flats that are kind of similar. Steve Madden & Target. And because Target is so wonderful they were only a cheap $10.00ish. I couldn't believe it! That's a steal! Go check it out, maybe they're close to what you were thinking.
Anyway hopefully this helps!
Sincerely,
Dubya
P.S. Because you're all knowing you probably already know this, but I'm a friend of Mrs. R's from VA (And your blog has been a must read for months). Another reason I've been timid to comment is because of my lack of consistent or entertaining blogging myself.
Oh well I caved. :)
My daughter's digestive system refuses to digest peas. Ugh.
Almost ALL meat products leave a TERRIBLE odor. Hot dogs, bologna, chicken... HATE those diapers. My 13 month old will pretty much eat whatever I cut up for her, but I pay the price the next morning!
I don't know about the rest of you, but the only good thing about dirty diapers is that my husband pretty much refuses to change them. So like after dinner the kitchen will be a complete mess, but he would rather unload the dishwasher, do the dishes, and do all the clean up just to get out of the poopy diaper duty. It's great for me! I am done LONG before he is, but he's fine with it. So as long as my baby only poops when her dad is home -- from 5 - 8pm, then I'm good.
Maybe you already knew this, but if raisins (and other fruit) are helping her move food along too fast, serve them alongside some cheese cubes to slow it down. I wouldn't worry about whole raisins for a minute -- totally normal at that age. To me, the more troublesome diapers are the bizarre, brightly colored ones, resulting from feeding kids lots of artificial colors, like those in fruit snacks, etc. We try to avoid that -- it just seems wrong for their poo to be bright green. I agree that other people's kids seem to stink more than your own. It's just all in what you're used to.
Corn. (gag-retch-gag)
My daughter also produced whole raisons in her diaper. I was worried and have not given them to her since. Glad to hear you had the same experience. The worst thing I found in her poop was a pony tail holder. It was completely in tact and waiting for me in her diaper. No clue how she even swallowed it!
We've just recently discovered Abby's love for raisins as well...and had your exact same experience! Pretty gross and kind of a shocker! It also happened with corn. She had just the normal, whole kernel corn out of the can, and well...3 weeks later without any corn in the mean time, we discovered corn in her diaper! My thoughts were - Poor baby or poor corn!?
Yeah, I was a little concerned about the whole-raisin-phenomenon too, so I asked my pediatrician. Nothing to worry about. Elijah is still a raisin freak, but I buy the itty bitty single serve boxes to limit his daily intake.
I have the same problem when I feed the kids grapes. It grosses me out completely.
I hate changing poopy diapers. When can I begin to potty train?
that is gross, but been there done that. I am totally delaying feeding my 5 month old real food/rice cereal, for fear of the stinkies that will inevitably result.
Corny poop.
HA HA HA. too funny. my little mister is behind miss dub in age/food... so we've yet to try raisins. good to know they come out unscathed, though! ha ha.
I think any poo besides breastmilk is pretty gross. I think it's REALLY gross that carrots stay orange, peas stay green, but bananas turn BLACK!?
the mister had some wicked diarrhea for about a month after his first round of rotavirus vaccination. it was disgusting. even for breastmilk poo.
Poop is the biggest deal with babies. It is always interesting how often it changes colors and consistency. I am so excited for potty training so I don't have to be so very familiar with my child's poop. I think black beans is a pretty interesting one. Oh, and my child has recently been into raisins too - but I feel I have to cut her off so she won't get the runs.
I worked at Tutor Time for 2 weeks. I worked in the one year old room. Yikes, 12 one year olds... that I'm not related to... it was nasty. One kids diapers was always bright green, not army green, florescent crayon green!!!!
I must say that some of the worst "poopy" diapers are the ones they have at baby shower "games" where you have to guess what kind of candy bars are conglomerated to make up the fake poop. Gross.
When my daughter was a baby, she swallowed a bunch of marbles that went to a game. My Mom couldn't stand the thought of just throwing the whole game away, so she dug through the poop and found every single marble! (12 to be exact)
She still has that game to this day!
Corn comes out whole and hard-boiled eggs smell EXACTLY the same coming out the other end.
Along with the marble story...when I was 6, my baby sister swallowed one of the Barbie McDonald's hamburger buns. I begged until my poor babysitter got it OUT of her diaper and wash it off. I still can't believe she did it. If I knew where she lived, I'd write her an apology.
When my oldest was around a year old he ate a ton of fresh string beans from the farmer's market. His next diaper change I thought he had worms! (My mom always had us freaked out that we were going to get them when we were kids) After closer inspection (Yuck) Saw that it was just the fibers from all of the beans he had eaten.
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