Surprise!

[billroper]

We were warned, of course, that all children are different. But in some ways, they're the same. Both of them have exhibited much more control of their head movements at an early age than we were told to expect, for instance.

On the other hand, compared to Katie, Julie is a veritable poo machine. In fact, as daisy_knotwise was changing an extremely poopy diaper just a few moments ago, she had just finished cleaning the baby's bottom when a poo jet erupted, hitting Gretchen's pants, the couch, the floor, and one of Gretchen's socks.

Katie never did that. (And fortunately, she's still asleep.)

Comments

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

Hah! Gretchen's lucky - Amy got me in the face the first day we had her home. Ew.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

LOL! And I thought little boys peeing *every* time they were exposed to air was bad! Open diaper, pee begins, fold over until stream ends, continue diaper change.

I half expected you to say that in addition to the couch, floor, and socks, the poo hit the AC, so it could be said it hit the fan...

[musicmutt.livejournal.com]

Let us, (chirosinger and I ) be among the last to congratulate you on this. We've been a little out of the LJ loop for a bit. Wheee!!!

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Oxy-clean will get poo out of anything!

Maybe a different formula formulation?

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

In terms of dragging the silver lining out of the cloud, into the open, kicking and screaming,

The alternative is the baby girl who screams at every bowel movement, has minimal output shaped like a ribbon, and needs a trip to the pediatrician and a quasi-surgical procedure to make things normal.

The mother who told me of this said that it was Very Puzzling (first baby) and Very Stressful until they actually got to the doctor's.