Our Little Pooper!

Recently Kaito has been having some leaking poop diapers. I wonder if it's because the diapers are getting too small or if his clothes are too small (the crotch is too short, therefor pressing against the diaper, leaving the poop with no where to go but out through the sides) or if the diaper is put on too loose.

2 weeks ago, we had a BIG poopie accident in his bouncy chair. I strapped him into the bouncy chair while I went off to prepare lunch. The whole time, he's cooing and enjoying himself, and I don't even notice that he pooped. That's EVEN after I picked him up and moved him to his play mat. As I'm sitting down, I put my fingers up to my face to scratch my nose, and I get a whiff of something on my fingers. I'm looking at my hands, which don't look wet at all, and I keep on sniffing, trying to figure out what that smell is (thank goodness I'm not licking to see what it is!!!). THEN it FINALLY hits me! It smells like poop. . . but I don't see any poop on my hands. Then I rush over to Kaito, who is playing happily on his play mat, and I notice that he has poop coming out of his diaper and it's on his legs too! How could I not have noticed it when I picked him up before? Then I look at the bouncy chair, and there is a big yellow blob there!!! So, I clean him up and wash the bouncy chair. (I think I was saddest about the bouncy chair getting dirty, which meant that he couldn't use it for the rest of the day until the cover dried. . . we don't have a dryer!). So, I wash it, and by the late afternoon, I was so glad that the cover had dried, so he could sit in the bouncy chair again. So, wouldn't you know it, when I put him in the bouncy chair as I prepare dinner, I hear some noise, and I go and check up on him, and he pooped again in the bouncy chair!!! AND it leaked all over. . . AGAIN! That's twice in 1 day. . . in the same place! I guess he must feel relaxed in that chair!

Anyway, since then, we have changed to bigger diapers (small, rather than newborn) and I cleared out all of his newborn clothes which are getting too small. So, there aren't too many leaky diaper stories to tell. . . or so I thought.

Okay, this time, it happens on the couch. We've been feeding Kaito only formula recently, because of some oral medication I'm temporarily taking (yeah, I'm okay, don't worry!). It seems that formula is harder for babies to digest, because Kaito would go 1 whole day without pooping (usually he poops 3-4 times a day on breast milk!). If he didn't poop one day, then I knew that the next day, there would be a BIG one coming! So, he's playing on the couch with Kei, and suddenly he starts crying. As Kei goes to check up on him, I hear a shout. . . not from Kaito, but from Kei. Apparently Kaito had a really big poop, which not only got all over his legs, but he also leaked on the couch and pillow! I never saw so much poop come out of him before!. . . and it was so sticky! Yuck! So, I start to panic . . . hmm, what should I do first? Take the diaper off? Wipe his legs off first? Take his clothes off? Take the cover off the changing pad? Get a plastic bag ready? So, I'm frantically trying to take his clothes off and wipe off his legs and feet, which are all poopie because he started kicking as I was taking the diaper off, so he got poop in between his toes!!! And of course Kaito is crying the whole time. Kei had the easy job of cleaning the couch and getting a bath ready to clean our little guy off. After his bath, a new diaper, and a change of clothes, our little guy was all smiles again.

I guess no one likes to poop in their pants. Our little guy may be a pooper, but he's not a "party pooper!"
Hmm, he didn't poop all day. . . so I should get ready for the next BIG one!