Poop: it makes my kiddo gag. I’m not talking about a little gag, but a full blown I’m-probably-going-to-puke gag! It was always quite the scene when I was changing her baby sister’s diapers and I had worry if she was going to puke while I was wiping a butt!
My wonderful husband has had the same poop reactions in the past. Like the time I tried to change a diaper in the light of the moon and my baby decided to get an Olympic medal in distance pooping. It went over my arm and down the wall. I had to whisper-yell into the baby monitor, “911! 911!! Get in here now!” My husband runs into room and immediately starts to gag! I tell him that he better not throw up between hysterical laughs at the absurd situation.
So I think my daughter’s poop aversion must be genetic!
FIND A WAY TO DETER THEM!
Fast forward to current time. Our neighbor has gotten a puppy and my now older kids are obsessed with wanting to get a puppy of their own. I keep telling them not now. I tell them puppies poop. That they would have to pick up puppy poop and throw it away. I’m thinking this will deter them. Wrong.
Did you know that neighbors with puppies love when the neighbor kids want to take the puppy for a walk and play with it? It’s great. The neighbors get help running some energy out of the pup, and my kids get a taste for ownership…even the poop. My kiddo was told that if she was watching the puppy, and it pooped, she was the one who had to pick it up. Guess what she did? Yep, she found a shovel and picked up the poop! I was so proud of her!
IS IT NORMAL?
Why do mom’s talk about poop like it’s normal? Or is it just me? My husband asks me this all the time so I guess it’s a reoccurring conversation piece in our home. I think it started for me when my first baby was born. You know all those questions the doctors ask you at every appointment? The ones that make you feel like you’re in high school, and have an exam you didn’t know was happening? I always felt this way. When did she last poop? What color was it? When did she sleep? For how long? What does she eat? How much? How often? I never wanted to NOT KNOW THE ANSWER!
In my family, it was always me who brought the kids in for well child check ups or when they were sick. That’s why I talk about poop. That’s why I remember when my kids go poop. I listen when they tell me it was different than normal.
Since it is in my normal rotation of conversation topics, you’d think my girl would get desensitized to it after a while, but nope. Sure, she can pick up dog poop, but she can’t look in the toilet while she’s closing the lid before flushing! She’s still gagging at it all. I’m afraid that one day she’ll fall in because she’s not watching what she doing! That is going to be an interesting event to witness! Probably one that will be posted on Facebook, so I can get a Timehop reminder of it every year. She’ll love it, I’m sure!
Finally, to all the moms out there who are keeping an eye on the poop: you’ve got this! And you know what? The doctors won’t hold it against you if you don’t know ALL the answers. Just do your best!
