Shift Change

[billroper]

Katie's been a bit under the weather digestively for the last couple of days. She spit up fairly impressively in her crib the last two nights, although she's been willing to eat various things, so it's not like she's got a cramping stomach bug. And she was seriously constipated as well, but that finally gave way this evening, so we were greatly relieved.

I took her to put her to bed and she took about six ounces of formula and fell asleep. As I picked her up to put her in the crib, she picked that moment to lose the entire contents of her stomach (including the banana that I'd fed her earlier) across my shirt and blue jeans.

I called for help and handed Katie off to daisy_knotwise as I went to rinse off my clothes in the tub to remove the worst of the guck before they go into the laundry. This does mean that we'll have to make a trip down to the basement to get the laundry that's in the dryer which includes my other pair of blue jeans which Katie soaked last night with lemonade from an opened sippy cup.

I begin to conclude that I need more blue jeans.

Comments

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Yes, Bill; it's not just the baby who needs changing frequently.

[unkbar.livejournal.com]

Hey, man. Nobody held a gun to your head and forced you to have a baby!

A mysterious change comes over people who become parents, like the change Niven's Pak make from breeder to protector. It leads to them do and say things that are unimaginable to "unchanged" humans like, "Oh, it's only pee"

[billroper]

Oh, I know. I'm just contemplating the necessary expansion of my wardrobe...

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

Once when Libby was a baby she was sick and threw up on me repeatedly. Three times in a row IIRC that I had to clean her and myself up and go back to cuddling her. Bear's right, who but a parent would keep picking up a loaded baby just because she was miserable?

[billroper]

In fact, Gretchen ended up having trouble getting Katie to go to sleep again, so she put her in her crib to see if she'd just fall asleep there. After about ten minutes of crying, I decided that hadn't worked, so I went in and picked her up. She was then willing to take the bottle that she hadn't wanted earlier and when she finished the bottle, she fell asleep.

Gretchen will find out this morning whether that bottle stayed down...

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

I begin to conclude that I need more blue jeans.

Uh...since there's soon to be two babies in the house, I'd say so.