ILX Parenting 5: I'm a big kid now

As I said in the comments, this was recorded at normal speed.

awesome

Hehe, that's super.

I got to look deep into her little eyes and hold her while she struggled to poop

there is nothing as strange as the deep, intent, searching gaze of an infant attempting to achieve this mt. everest of bodily functions

yea it's amazing. also kind of crazy but J (now almost 2) likes privacy when he poops. he goes into his bedroom behind a chair. we talk about poop a lot and i definitely don't think we are sending any kind of shaming message about poop, but he just wants to be free from distractions i think

I think that's fairly common, no?

yes i think it is? i mean i certainly need privacy. i think it's kind of embedded into humanity - you are vulnerable when you shit so you need to be in a secure spot where you can be without interruption. just crazy to see a 23-month old kid already have that in him

pre-potty training Veronica would totally go in a corner or behind a tree or whatever. Judah, oddly, will only poop at home. Like he will literally hold his shit in until he is inside our house, at which point he will run to the nearest counter/table/shelf, grab onto it with both hands, and do his dirty sinful business

Well...there was an incident a week or so ago where it slithered out of her in the tub. Again, hysterics. Mine and hers. I think she probably thought it was a toot but it became a poo. Potty training has brought August into the open about her poo's. It use to be this silent struggle and if we saw her we'd run up and hold her because it looked like a struggle that needed a hug or physical support.

BTW, my hysterics were silent and manifested as quick thinking, working fast. So afraid of making her weird about her stray poo's. Later though, when telling the Papi....

We still haven't had a code brown in the bath, but I'm sure it will happen one day. Hopefully when his pops are a bit more solid and easy to fish out - they're still like breastmilk korma and the thought of him swimming in pungent soup horrifies me.

We've never given our girl baths, only showers. And in her earlier days when she was both more likely to slip in the tub and poop in the tub, we would put a towel down on the tub floor. This would a.) keep her safe from slipping by giving her some traction and b.) make it real easy to clean up if a poop slipped out while she was crouching down playing with her toys.

Breast milk korma... good god.

Wait showers even when she was an infant?

No, when she was an infant we just bathed her in the sink. Sorry.

But she did take showers with her mom from a pretty early age.

Aw hell, I really miss the days when we'd just stick her in the sink. She loved that.

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Cute!

never had a code brown really. altho I do recall the first time (when she was an infant) that Veronica saw poop coming out of her body and she freaked the fuck out. which makes a kind of sense, "hey part of my body just is no longer part of my body!" you can see how that would be traumatic if you had no concept of what was going on. like if all of a sudden their foot fell off or something.

Sooooooo sweet! I miss sink days.

Οὖτις, :Makes sense!

Re: adoption

Time wise it is actually kind of a mixed blessing and it will happen sometime in the next 12 months, hopefully.

― joygoat, Monday, April 7, 2014 10:14 PM (4 months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWa0dZMHYeE

Last time it was a sketchy situation, last minute, birth mom backed out and was never serious in the first place. We've met with a new one (and her girlfriend, long story) three times now including them coming 75 miles to see our house and the crib we just bought and bringing us baby clothes as a gift so this one feels legit. Feels really surreal right now.

Oh my gosh I am so excited for you.

A+++ hooray

Oh, best of luck!

^

good luck dudes

Crossing everything for you!

People keep telling me what a great age six months is, and they're right!

our girl is now at two weeks and i am praying for this day to come asap.

Don't wish it away! We grieve for that tiny baboo curled up like a little frog snoozing on your chest.

there is no snoozing. there is only screaming.

Yeah, I am having a blast with Ivy now and she is super awesome but I see little tiny babyloafs and get a little pang when remembering that age, too, just because it's gone for good. I even forgot, until I was thinking about it last night, that she went through a phase where she wouldn't sleep at all, day or night, unless someone was holding her.

xp yes something like that, although not that bad.

we had those issues for like a week, and then I remembered that I could swaddle them

ya, that works for all of 10 seconds.

Have you tried Dr Karp's 5 S's?

http://www.babycenter.com/0_harvey-karps-happiest-baby-method-for-baby-sleep-and-soothin_10373838.bc

Scarily, shockingly effective; the whole idea is that you're simulating what it was like inside the womb

my son was like why are you trying to shove me back into a womb I just busted out of one of those LIKE SO

lol

Miracle Blanket.

Everybody has kids, right? Everyone knows about Diaper Genies and microwave steamers for cleaning the bottles. But if there's one thing we learned that we pass on like sages, it's the wonders of the miracle blanket.

Miracle Blanket didn't work for us.

Well did you follow the directions correctly and do the part where you wheel the crib out into the garage?

What is this microwave steaming for bottles?

http://www.amazon.com/Philips-AVENT-Microwave-Steam-Sterilizer/dp/B007VBXKG2

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/baby/detail-page/c26-B007VBXKG2-2-l.jpg

God the crap they market to parents

Microwave sterilisers are awesome.

After we were done with the bottles, I just started going around the house looking for other shit to sterilize, like soda bottles or those little rubber coin purses that they give out at banks.

I think the baby wipe warmer was the most shameful thing we purchased.

looool

Hey man changing a newborn baby in an apartment in an old house without central heating during the polar vortex, we wished we had a damn wipe warmer. Nothing like a freezing cold wet cloth to the butt to really get a baby's lungs working.

Have you tried Dr Karp's 5 S's?
http://www.babycenter.com/0_harvey-karps-happiest-baby-method-for-baby-sleep-and-soothin_10373838.bc
Scarily, shockingly effective; the whole idea is that you're simulating what it was like inside the womb

for a second I though "scary" and "shocking" were two of your 5 "S"s! but ya - was taught the five S's in prenatal class. but results are fleeting - only seems to calm her down for a few minutes before she's back to crying.