There’s a dark little secret about new babies that most non-parents don’t know about: meconium. Meconium is a black tarry substance that is what newborns produce as part of their poo. Pardon the word poo, but I don’t know what else to call it.<\/p>\n
Changing a meconium diaper is a real hassle. The stuff really is like tar and requires a lot of work to get off a baby’s backside.<\/p>\n
C’s first diaper change occurred in the hospital (of course). J and I discussed it and tried what we thought would be a good approach. I held both his ankles up with one hand, keeping his backside off the bed. J took the diaper off, and we worked together to get the meconium off. We got it all with a minimum of crying, and were congratulating ourselves when I put his feet back down, lowering him into his clean diaper.<\/p>\n
That’s when we noticed that his face was dripping wet.<\/p>\n
I’d been holding his ankles up so high that when he’d peed, it had gone straight on to his face.<\/p>\n
This would be what you might call a "bad beginning". On the plus side, however, we had a measuring stick by which to compare all subsequent failures: "You did what? Well, at least you didn’t make him pee in his own face."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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