*if you really don't want to read about poopy diapers, skip this post. :)
today i am thankful...
1. for the versatility of a jacket. remi has had diarrhea since yesterday - not fun! i kind of forgot about it this morning and didn't think to bring an extra change of clothes with us this morning as we left the house. he was fine for the morning, then lunch came around. we ate in the car in the home depot parking lot and as i unbuckled remi to bring him to the front seat his pants were soaked and reeked. ugh! i can't believe i had forgotten! unfortunately, i had dressed him in a onsie and overalls, both of which were... ahem... unsalvageable without a clothes washer. he was wearing a sweater, so i changed him and we ate our lunch with him in a diaper and sweater. while he was eating he decided to finish the business that he had started earlier and i was extremely grateful that he was standing up so that it didn't get all over the front passenger seat. i changed him one more time and had pretty much given up hope of going into the store and getting some things we needed to work on the bathroom tonight. i then came up with a brilliant plant of putting on his jacket, pants style. so yeah, he had the little hood dragging on the ground underneath him, but it worked! he was contained enough that i felt semi-safe running inside to grab a few quick things. and since it was cold outside, i felt that he was sufficiently dressed for a mad dash through the parking lot and avoided any accusatory looks.
2. for cloth daipers. continuing the same story as above, we got home and i decided that i was sick of the nasty blow-outs so i stuck remi in cloth diapers. we stopped using his cloth diapers in march, when i became too sick from morning sickness to actually deal with poopy diapers and i've been too lazy to return to them since. i also really thought that he had outgrown the covers that we had. good news - they still fit him! this evening, remi did not have one blow-out. his diarrhea was completely contained! yay!!!! maybe this'll be the motivation i needed to get him back into regular use of the cloth. and since our new baby girl will be in cloth diapers, it won't be that much more work to have them both in them.
1 comments:
That was brilliant with the jacket, I don't think I would have thought of it! I was in the library last week and Alice fell off the couch, and then promptly threw up... I didn't have a diaper bag or anything (did I mention she was also poopy? Luckily no blow out), and her shirt was soaked. The man at the check-out, seeing her shirtless state, said "Um, eet is very cold out there." And I said "yeah... luckily I'm parked right there." (and really, it was about 60 degrees! not freezing by any means. But he is probably used to a warmer climate)
Anyways, I agree, we put Alice back in her cloth diapers any time she has diarrhea--they are so much better than 'sposies for that.
And just to make this comment a little longer, it's been fun reading your thankful challenges! I hope things go smoothly with your baby--so exciting! And Remi is such a cutie!
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