I am facing a bit of a dilemma when it comes to our baby ‘Usurper’, it goes something like this….
It is 11:00pm here and the almost 5 month old is asleep, blissed out on booby juice or something.
Wife is also asleep although she is far from blissed out - she is all cranky at the moment (probably something I said or perhaps didn’t say - hard to keep track of these days).
I was heading into the bedroom myself when I got a distinct wiff of something that may be bay poo.
Now here is the dilemma part:
Do I get Usurper up to change her nappy (which might not even be dirty for all I know) and risk waking her, leading to 30 minutes of crying, which will wake Wife leading to more crankiness etc etc.
Or do I leave the sleeping baby lie there in a potentially dirty nappy for the night or until she wakes with a rash or something.
This is too difficult - maybe I should just sleep on the couch, pretending I fell asleep there early in the night and therefore wasn’t in the bedroom and didn’t have to make a decision - that might just work you know.
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I usually take a peek. Sometimes it could be just bad gas.
Poor baby will have real bad rash if she sits in her dirty diapers too long, i’, sure you know that already.
Well, just to pat you on the back: It’s a good thing that you do these hygiene care for your kids. Honestly. I met this Aussie guy in Malaysia who does not know how to put on a diaper. I am sure there are many men around the world like that too, but I am also glad that most modern Dads take delight in caring for their young in all aspects.
Reminds me of that character in City Slickers, who pretends to be asleep when the wife walks into the room, & whispers to his friends “Is she gone yet?”
I wasn’t afraid of the delivery. I wasn’t afraid of carrying our newborn (where others had feared “damaging” such a fragile body), I wasn’t afraid of feeding her either…
The only thing I was really afraid of was the smell of her poop. Honestly. Maybe it was the boob-juice-only diet, but I actually dry-wretched at the smell of it! Luckily now with solid foods her poop isn’t so bad…
A different type wiff for you to look forward to now..Heh
I would risk the rash rather than the rath of waking your wife! LOL.
My take is you don’t wake the baby, if the baby really needs changed, they will wake up crying.
That’s a tough one! But, unless Princess was suffering from a severe case of diaper rash our rule became “never wake a sleeping baby.”
Thanks for the advice and I went with the ‘never wake a sleeping baby’ approach.
Luckily for me it was just as well I did that because it turned out to be a false alarm in the end.
Jlow - baby poo never bothered me. Now once they move onto solids that is a different matter altogether!