Comments on: There Has To Be A Metaphor In There Somewhere

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:48:37 +0000

As the mother of only girls – I can’t offer you any nuggets of advice, but good lord did this post make me laugh.

By: beanski

beanski — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:09:42 +0000

If I had a quarter for every time I’ve cursed the balls for the diaper blowouts since he was born, I’d be rich. My girl NEVER did that. This post made me laugh out loud.

By: Domestic Extraordinaire

Domestic Extraordinaire — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:17:29 +0000

We called them blow outs and that is the way both of my girls were. It was disgusting and we tossed out loads of clothes because the stains sometimes didn’t come out.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:29:52 +0000

And just think – I had 2 of those little shits!

By: mandy

mandy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:53:56 +0000

I have two boys, so they’re my only experience. They both regularly sh-t everywhere as babies. I do so much laundry, it’s exhausting. Spray and Wash? I should own stock!

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:31:10 +0000

How ’bout you try putting one of the old school diaper covers OVER the disposable?

and if not, well, how long could it possibly last?

By: Nan

Nan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:27:49 +0000

Yeah, and it gets into their hair… I tried using enormous diapers, but it didn’t work. So girls don’t do this? Dang.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:32:33 +0000

Perhaps you are one of those wonderful people who use cloth diapers… but everytime I’d get frustrated with the blow outs, I’d realize that moving up a size of disposables really seemed to help control them. Different brands can make a difference too.

I remember getting scissors and cutting onesies off because I didn’t want to take it off over his head. yuck.

By: LD

LD — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:21:15 +0000

Oh– so it’s a boy thing! I only have a boy, so I just figured it was a thing all babies did– Maybe it’s your diapers?? Try Pampers if you don’t already use them. The Cruisers are more expensive, but their stretchy waist band helped us.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:09:06 +0000

Honey, I feel your pain. I spent 3 months last year with a class of 12 under-2-year-olds, 10 of whom were boys. They all did the up the back-of-the-nappy shits, except for one or two (but they’re… erm… really small… >_>).

The worst is now that they’ve followed me back to the 2-3 year-old class, they’re on to the potty training. And until they figure out that undies don’t work the same as nappies… well, you can say that it’s Not. Fun. Thankfully, I have an assistant who deals with most of that aspect…

But yeah… it’s only about a year and a half more of this. Once he turns 2 you can start potty training and get him out of it.