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August 06, 2008
Poopity Poop Poop
I've discovered the secret of successful blogging: If you talk about poop - people come out of the woodwork. Seriously.
Thank you all for sharing your remedies and experiences. I had a good laugh. We did get poop. And then we watched for poop again. And then we got poop. I'm thinking this is how things go with a five month old. (Almost! Next week! Can you STAND it?)
Meli was very accommodating, as always, and didn't poop at the doctor's office. She didn't leave the poop for her aunt either. She pooped very unassumingly at home, with her mama by her side, in the afternoon before her daddy and mommy left on their first date since she's been born.
I heard the poop coming and went to change her diaper. When I opened it, I was surprised at how little poop there was, considering how long I had been waiting. Ha ha ha. Kids love to play tricks! It only SEEMED like a little bit of poop because the poop princess wasn't done. Nope. As I was cleaning her up she started pooping again. And again. And again. Just when I thought she might be done she just kept on pooping. It got so I was switching out diapers under her so she could fill them up again! It was all actually quite efficient and no outfits were ruined.
We've since switched to the next size diaper. I'm expecting more poop at any time now.
Our date was WONDERFUL! We left the baby with my sister-in-law and things were good - no tears - that includes the baby and ME. Although I did make the rookie mistake of calling home once we got to the stadium. Yup. Meli was screaming in the background. But Aunt Katina is a seasoned pro so she was soon texting me that Meli had a bit of a bottle and had fallen asleep.
The concert was INCREDIBLE. (Scroll down to July 31.) Possibly the best we've ever seen and it certainly made up for the crap concert we saw last November. The joy lasted over 3 hours and I think I may have taken a cat nap somewhere in the middle. Because of a bad accident on the turnpike right at the exit for the stadium, the concert started over an hour late and didn't end until close to 1AM. I can't thank my sister-in-law enough for sticking it out. We needed that night out and MAN did we get our money's worth!
Of course the baby was up really early the next morning and no matter how much we nursed, she wouldn't go back to sleep. Which is totally unlike her. Until she started to poop AGAIN. I can't tell you how fast I jumped out of bed to change her. I was so freaking exhausted too. Thankfully as soon as she was done we climbed back into bed and slept for another couple hours. I'm still recovering.
Tonight we're trying the babysitting thing again. My sister's coming over so we can go out to dinner to one of our favorite restaurants. We haven't been there since before I got pregnant so it's been awhile. I can't wait. I'm going to have a glass of wine and good steak and stare at my sexy husband across the table. Did I mention? It's our anniversary today. Seven years. Although that number feels so bogus because we've been living together for SEVENTEEN years. And that first August 6, the original, the best in many respects, well, that was EIGHTEEN years ago. I can't believe it. He's still my best friend. Still the love of my life. Add to that the father of my daughter and I'm just the luckiest girl alive.
May 2008
The courthouse in VT where we got married.
Only this time we took the baby with us.
Posted by Cara at August 6, 2008 02:15 PM
Topics: Life
Comments
Awww, CONGRATS to two of the best people I know!!
Posted by: margene at August 6, 2008 02:25 PM
Happy anniversary!
Had I known you were in Vt earlier this year I would have taken you to some yummy yarn stores.
Posted by: E to the M at August 6, 2008 02:44 PM
Congratulations to all of you! Celebrate and enjoy your time together.
Posted by: mary anne at August 6, 2008 02:52 PM
Happy Anniversary!!
Posted by: Abby at August 6, 2008 02:57 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: the Lady at August 6, 2008 03:00 PM
Happy Anniversary! And YAY for the poop!
Posted by: Tara at August 6, 2008 04:41 PM
Happy Anniversay! Today is my first baby's 34th birthday. August 6th is truly auspicious.
Posted by: Joyce R at August 6, 2008 04:46 PM
Happy Anniversary. Enjoy dinner.
Posted by: Wanda in AR at August 6, 2008 04:51 PM
Happy Annversary Cara and G.
Posted by: RobynR at August 6, 2008 04:53 PM
Happy anniversary to you and your sweetie! (August 6 must be a good day -- it's the anniversary of my first date with my husband!)
Posted by: Sarah at August 6, 2008 04:54 PM
Yeah Poop!!
Also, glad the concert was awesome. Happy anniversary - here's to many more!
Posted by: Kathy at August 6, 2008 04:57 PM
Yeah Poop!!
Also, glad the concert was awesome. Happy anniversary - here's to many more!
Posted by: Kathy at August 6, 2008 04:57 PM
Happy Anniversary! August is good month for marriages. (DH and I celebrated 18 years on Monday, the 4th.)
Enjoy your night out! :)
Posted by: Mel at August 6, 2008 04:58 PM
Happy anniversary! Today is my dad's birthday . . . so it must be a good day. Glad the latest concert was better than the last.
Posted by: Ava at August 6, 2008 05:46 PM
Happy Anniversary! Today's my son's birthday too (he's now 22). And a friend of mine has her anniversary today as well. Apparently a lot of us have reasons to celebrate today!
Posted by: (formerly) no-blog-rachel at August 6, 2008 08:41 PM
Happy Anniversary! My husband and I are also celebrating our anniversary today-it is 31 years for us and our baby days are just fond memories at this point! Enjoy that little girl!
Posted by: Marji at August 6, 2008 10:18 PM
I couldn't help thinking 'why not hold her over the toilet if she's pooping?'. My aunt insists that my cousin was potty trained at 6 months, but her sisters think she was just lucky and happened to hold the baby over the toilet at opportune moments.
Posted by: Carolyn at August 6, 2008 10:40 PM
Happy Anniversary!!!
Posted by: Heather~Domestic Extraordinaire at August 6, 2008 10:55 PM
I followed the links to some video clips from The Concert. It looks awesome!
Have a wonderful anniversary dinner and anniversary, with your two loves, alone and together!
Posted by: Cathy-Cate at August 6, 2008 11:10 PM
happy anniversary!
happy poop too!
Posted by: megan at August 6, 2008 11:12 PM
Poop cometh to those who wait.
Memories! Although MY kids pooped right on schedule, none of this drama. Poop poop poop. To this day, no poop drama.
I wish for you: the absence of poop drama.
Happy Anniversary!
Kay
Posted by: Kay at August 7, 2008 01:49 AM
Congratulations on your anniversary (and on doing so much better than my husband and I on having dates post baby)!
I haven't commented for ages - I guess the poop talk really works, on parents at least. I think that when my daughter was about Meli's age was when I started putting her over a potty. Helps contain those projectile pooping incidents and saves on diapers and the amount of cleanup.
I don't know whether you've come across the whole Elimination Communication/Infant Potty Learning idea - but if you're at all interested there's lots out there on the internet about it. I didn't do the full EC no diapers approach, but she still caught on to the queued peeing thing pretty quickly and now (she's two) when we're home she puts herself on the potty pretty reliably. We got one of these potty chairs and she LOVED sitting on it (regardless of whether she needed to do anything, just liked being able to sit up and look around) when she got to the point that she could sit up with that little bit of support.
OK, enough with the unsolicited parenting method talk, take it or leave it as you will of course. Have a fab dinner date!
Posted by: commonplaceiris at August 7, 2008 03:06 AM
Happy Anniversary! Hope dinner was excellent!
Posted by: Diane at August 7, 2008 08:53 AM
Happy Anniversary! Dates are SO important once you have a baby. It's good for all three of you!
Posted by: kathy at August 7, 2008 11:46 AM
The first date is hard, but when it goes well, you'll be making up for 'lost' time in no time :) For those long poops, there's no reason why you can't hold her over the toilet/potty/bowl instead of throwing more garbage into landfills. IKEA has a new potty and I was stunned to see it for $2.99 or $3.99 in the catalogue. Bjorn also has a little potty suitable for infants. Most people who do EC just use a bowl though. Oh, I see someone just mentioned it too. GUess it's getting more mainstream!
Posted by: TracyKM at August 7, 2008 11:48 AM
The joys of the poo watch. Its either too much or not enough some days LOL.
My daughter is almost 6 months, and we still have those never ending poo sessions.
Posted by: Cynder at August 7, 2008 02:50 PM
Hooray for poop!
And way to go for going on a date. Thus far, Dan and I have managed to leave Raley with someone while we go to Home Depot or our storage unit, but never to actually do something "fun." Maybe sometime soon!
Posted by: Sarah at August 7, 2008 03:05 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Wanda at August 7, 2008 09:43 PM
poop factory
Posted by: beth at August 8, 2008 03:53 PM
Happy Anniversary!! and Congratulations! Glad you were a brave girl to leave her with your sis!!
Your baby's not pooping and now pooping lots is a sure sign of dehydration. It goes (as you've experienced) from constipation to a mix to diarrhea. I would suggest upping her liquids, but mainly water (unless nursing/pumping), make sure she's getting plenty of veggies (if applicable) and maybe even a nice prune puree if she's stopped up again. Once I figured mine were dehydrated, they never got constipated until I started them on bottles and mushed veggies & then after their bodies got used to it they didn't have problems!!
Hope everything "works out"!
Bella Mama
Posted by: Mrs. C. at August 8, 2008 06:01 PM
I love how you express your love for your husband!
Posted by: Maura at August 11, 2008 03:49 AM
nice, definitely
Posted by: Pavliga at August 20, 2008 11:21 AM