Saturday, April 19, 2008

Poo-tastrophes

WARNING: If you don't want to read about poo, stop reading now.
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I bet that made you instantly more curious. As new parents, it's no surprise that our lives are filled with curiosities about our child's pee and poo. This is primarily because they are signs of health, but also because we have to change diapers.

Our son was born with a very tight sphincter. As our friend Erin put it, he was literally anal-retentive. He did not poo between Saturday and Thursday. At his one week appointment, the doctor remedied this by sticking her pinky where the sun doesn't shine. After some very intense facial expressions, poo immediately oozed out, and we waited with bated breath for his next poo.

Friday morning, it came and made up for lost time, exploding out of his diaper. It was the kind of poo I never thought I would live to observe:





More explosive poos have followed. We're slightly longing for the days when we had a poo-less child.

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