Jon & Kathy

She might as not even wear the things. Every time she poops it manages to get into her clothes and up her back. Before any of you think that we should try another diaper, let me tell you, it isn’t the brand of diaper that is failing. NO diaper can hold the amount of stuff that my baby can put into it. It’s like pouring 5 gallons of water into a dish sponge… eventually shit is going everywhere.

Today, the baby was on her 3rd day of a raspy cough and another eye infection (which turned out to be another clogged tear duct). I took her to the doc. Kathy had just changed her about an hour before, and the nurse asked me to strip the baby down. There were brown spots on her clothes already. And a onesie at that… this will be important soon. It was at least twice as bad as the last post I made about this topic. The deal is that I can clean with baby wipes all day, but they don’t do a lot. You’re wiping something wet with something wet… not a lot of soaking action like I needed. Another nurse came in laughing and helped out. I couldn’t get her clothes off over her head without making cleanup worse, so I asked for scissors. She’ll be 5x this size next week and won’t be able to wear that top anyway. Fortunately the laughing nurse was able to roll the onesie inside and keep the top half of the baby relatively clean.

One travel pack and half of another of wipes later and the baby was clean and happy. The cough will fix itself in the next couple of days. I’m quickly understanding the waterhose method of changing a diaper.