Ever since friends and family learnt about us having a baby, they have been teasing me that I too will now be part of the diaper dads club. Its the municipal duty.
The first 40 days were breezy as I did not have to change a single one as my wife had help, only assisting once. However then came the day the help was gone and it became my solid duty to change my sons nappy / diaper whenever I was home from work.
I never gagged. Why ? I had dogs in the past who would once in a while poop or pee in the house and it would my job to clean up the mess. Compared to that this was a piece of cake. (pun intended. what pun ?)
Then on Sunday when we planned our baby's first day out, it happened. The horror of baby poop !
I was home and on Diaper Duty. I opened sonny boy's diaper and peeked in a saw a small speck of poo. wife said to do some gentle leg movements / exercises to make sure all is out. The babys leg movements, not mine. I had already pooped in the morning. I clean myself and do not need any additional help. Back to the topic on hand. So I did some gentle exercises with him. Nothing else came.
I started cleaning him up. That is when he decided to poop some more and out came a dribble which turned into a muddy waterfall. Panic. This was just before I had placed the diaper so some of the gooey stuff was on the changing mat and his blanket (dont ask) and expecting some more I placed the diaper under his soft butt and over the poop. He was done. And so was I. Poop was everywhere on the diaper, under the diaper on the sheet, blankets, legs.
I waited a few moments more, no movement no precursors or anything so I started cleaning him up again. And then came the shower, the golden shower and he peed and peed and peed - all over the bed, the blanket, his clothes, his socks, his clean change of clothes, his grandmommy (who was there by now)and of course his dad, me. By this time to damage control, I had started moving the changing sheet and the blanket and the daper and lo behold all was covered in a fine layer of my sonny boys finest gooey stuff on tap. I ended up getting poo and pee in all areas it shouldnt.
I finally managed to get him changed. Mommy and Grandma were in splits over my handling of the situation. No harm done. We could go out on a incident free day out. Thanks to me, I saved the day !
Credit of the sketch to Anitta Hiekkanen
