I want you to think hard about your favorite meal. What is it? Picture it in front of you right now.
It looks delicious, right? Smells good, your mouth is watering, anticipating eating a wonderful dinner.
Sit down, grab your eating utensils, and reach for that first bite.
Wait? What's that?
Your newborn's diaper has leaked? Your baby's legs are dripping grainy, yellowish poop?
I guess that fresh, hot dinner is going to have to wait. You have bigger problems to solve.
Strip the baby's clothes off. Carefully, so that you don't make more of a mess than you are already dealing with.
Try to rinse the majority of the baby mustard(as I like to call it) off in the sink, before a real bath is ready.
Twenty minutes later, baby is all clean. But we still have to get her dressed.
Put on a fresh diaper, get her in some clean pajamas. About 45 minutes have passed since the first sentence.
Now she's hungry. She cries and cries until she is fed.
Prepare a bottle, feed her for ten minutes, until she is content. Can't feed without burping.
Pat her back for five minutes, or so, until a burp or two is released. Let's set her down.
Get her comfortable in her sleeper. Pacifier in. Blanket tucked around her little body. She's finally asleep.
Might as well eat dinner on a plate made of ice. It's cold, and ruined. It cannot be repaired. It's the norm these days.
Take a few bites, it's just OK. At least it's food. And edible.
Wait? What's that?
She's pooping again....
Dinner is going to have to wait. Again.
Welcome to my world.
Yes the poop seems to control my days! My daughter's poop always defies gravity and shoots right up and out the back of her diaper even when she's held upright!
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