Total gross-out baby moment (don't read if you haven't eaten lunch yet!)

MrsPatterson · July 2009

Ok this is so gross, and I keep thinking about it and it's making me insecure about being a mother myself!

I was at a meeting the other day, and my friend was there as well. She has a baby who is almost 7 months old, and had brought the baby along. She was feeding the baby a bottle and holding it in her lap, with her hand between the baby's legs. The baby farted, and everyone started laughing. But then we realized that the baby had actually pooped big time and the poop squirted out through one of the legs of the baby's onesie and got all over my friend's hand and pants. I am ashamed to say that I almost puked because I was so grossed out. Please tell me this is one of the things we just get used to when we're moms!

bl2007 · July 2009

One of the many many things that you think would cause problems but you think nothing of it because they are yours. I have actually had to stick my finger in my son's bung hole when he was constipated and try to pull some of it out. Didn't think twice about it, he was in pain and crying and this is what I needed to do to help ease his pain, so I did it.

MrsGhappilyeverafter · July 2009

Yikes! I don't know how I'll get used to poop, but I guess I'll have too. Man, your poor friend!

HisKathy · July 2009

I feel the same way about the spitting up! Baby vomit grosses me out so much...

I'm so banking on "it's different when it's yours"

aloveindy · July 2009

Oh and many other things probably.

A similar story: My neice was recenlty with my Mom, Dad and I at the mall and we stopped at Cheesecake Factory to get dessert. She told my mom she pooped and when my mom went to check her diaper it was at the very top of her diaper and my mom totally stuck all her fingers in the poop right at the table. She had to use one of the little drink napkins to wipe it off and get my niece to the bathroom to get her changed. My nieces response was to giggle and say "Ohhhh, poopy!!"

MrsPatterson · July 2009

HisKathy:
I'm so banking on "it's different when it's yours"

OMG Kathy, I cling to this hope daily!

mb72105 · July 2009

Especially when it is your baby, you do not even think twice about that stuff.. I use to nanny for a family and when their youngest was sick withthe flu I actually placed my hands under his face to catch the throw-up...without even thinking about it...jsut saw that he was gonna puke and my reaction was to catch it before it hit the floor. His own father was amazed that I reacted that way and grossed out too!

mrstyson03 · July 2009

aloveindy:

Oh and many other things probably.

A similar story: My neice was recenlty with my Mom, Dad and I at the mall and we stopped at Cheesecake Factory to get dessert. She told my mom she pooped and when my mom went to check her diaper it was at the very top of her diaper and my mom totally stuck all her fingers in the poop right at the table. She had to use one of the little drink napkins to wipe it off and get my niece to the bathroom to get her changed. My nieces response was to giggle and say "Ohhhh, poopy!!"

Ick!

DrDPM · July 2009

We were out shopping with DS in Atlantic City when he was just a few months old. We were in the back of a Carter's outlet looking at clothes, and I was holding him. All of a sudden I heard a splash and then felt something running down my legs. He had popped all over me and onto the floor. When we ask the sales associate if we could use the restroom to clean us up and the floor, they said no - only for employees. We left the store,with poop running down my legs, and left the poop all over the floor since they were so rude.

wisher · July 2009

Yea you get used to it. I'm an Aunt to 6 kiddos and I've been pooped, peed, puked on, and everything in between. I'm so used to it that I don't think my baby will even phase me.