What do you do when the poop don't stink?
This may seem like something I shouldn't be complaining about. It should be reason to rejoice. But it's actually kind of a problem.
My baby's poop doesn't stink.
Really. She has the non-stinkiest poo I've ever (not) smelled.
This is coming from someone who has close to five years of experience in daily detection of dirty diapers. I have a very sensitive nose anyway, and most stinky diapers are generally not hard to smell. I mean, we're talking about what basically amounts to a sack full of poop. Anyone with half a nose can figure it out.
But my youngest child has almost odorless waste. And here's the problem with that: if you can't tell that she's gone, you don't know that she needs to be changed. She ends up sitting around with it touching her poor sweet baby skin, and by the time the adult caring for her finally happens to check her diaper, her little bum is totally red and irritated. The poor kid has a constant diaper rash, because no matter how frequently I check her, at least once a day she seems to slip one under the radar and I find an unfortunate surprise at changing time. Then I slather diaper rash cream all over her buns, and then the faintly medicinal scent of it makes it even harder to detect subsequent poop incidents, and the cycle repeats.
One of my friends who watched her recently apologized for not noticing the dirty diaper and said, "I guess that's how it is with a breast-fed baby." But I can tell you that I had two other breastfed babies and their diapers were still quite odoriferous. I don't know what it is about her body's make-up that produces this odor anomoly. Once she's not in diapers anymore I think it will probably be a great thing.
But for now, since my normal poop detection device (my nose) is failing me, I need some other method--a convenient indicator light on her back, perhaps--to help me deal with this diaper dilemma. Any inventors out there want to tackle this project for me?
My baby's poop doesn't stink.
Really. She has the non-stinkiest poo I've ever (not) smelled.
This is coming from someone who has close to five years of experience in daily detection of dirty diapers. I have a very sensitive nose anyway, and most stinky diapers are generally not hard to smell. I mean, we're talking about what basically amounts to a sack full of poop. Anyone with half a nose can figure it out.
But my youngest child has almost odorless waste. And here's the problem with that: if you can't tell that she's gone, you don't know that she needs to be changed. She ends up sitting around with it touching her poor sweet baby skin, and by the time the adult caring for her finally happens to check her diaper, her little bum is totally red and irritated. The poor kid has a constant diaper rash, because no matter how frequently I check her, at least once a day she seems to slip one under the radar and I find an unfortunate surprise at changing time. Then I slather diaper rash cream all over her buns, and then the faintly medicinal scent of it makes it even harder to detect subsequent poop incidents, and the cycle repeats.
One of my friends who watched her recently apologized for not noticing the dirty diaper and said, "I guess that's how it is with a breast-fed baby." But I can tell you that I had two other breastfed babies and their diapers were still quite odoriferous. I don't know what it is about her body's make-up that produces this odor anomoly. Once she's not in diapers anymore I think it will probably be a great thing.
But for now, since my normal poop detection device (my nose) is failing me, I need some other method--a convenient indicator light on her back, perhaps--to help me deal with this diaper dilemma. Any inventors out there want to tackle this project for me?
2 comments:
I have that problem at times with Korinthia, but not normally. As for the diaper rash. Lillie got TERRIBLE diaper rash when she was a baby... she had to be changed 30 seconds after going or her butt would bleed, it was awful!
Anyhow, Cornstarch was one of the things that worked the best, and that would help keep from hiding the (non) smell.
Also you could start writing down what time her poopy diaper was everyday, see if there is a common theme to help you know when she goes... :)
What a great laugh... and all the nanny-ified experience I can give is... does she make a funny face, or a funny squat, or grab onto something really hard, perhaps? I nannied a kiddo who used to make super intense eye contact... which sounds weird, but I always thought of it as pre-potty training, the under-age-one version of "I am going now, help meeeee!" ; )
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