Poop!

Lets talk about the routine for a 2 week old.

When you hear child stirring, you change the child. This is a fun process with lots of bonding time and one sided conversations. And opening the diaper is a little like Christmas.

1. You feel the diaper as you move them to the table and you sort of try to guess if there is anything in it
2. Once you have the child undressed, you try to maybe peek in the side of the diaper to get a feel for what might be in store.
3. Then you open the diaper... And you find either a present, or not. Its always wet, it is just the "other" contents that are a surprise.
4. you actually feel disappointed when the diaper is empty. (whouda thunk you get excited about poop) Empty diaper means they are either not processing the food, or they are constipated. And a new parent has enough things to get freaked out about.

Once the child is changed, you feed the child. This is almost a battle in itself. After all, the child is now comfy in its clean diaper, it has been cuddled a bit... So unless it is crying (in which case just stuff that bottle or boob in) you are now trying to wake the child much like Darla in Finding Nemo...

Wake Up Baby, Wake up!!!

this image is obviously part of the Disney/Pixar library and I hope I do not get in trouble for linking to it. I found it at http://photobucket.com

About halfway through the feeding, there will inevitably be a release of gas at some point. Funny thing is, I always thought burping sent gas up. Turns out, it sends it both ways. The problem is, you get to the end of the feeding, and if all went well, you have a burped, tranquil baby. BUT... There was that lower gas. Now, was it Gas? Or was it something more insidious? Should I check and risk moving baby to an awake state when I want to sleep? Or let the baby sit in a "possibly" poopy diaper?

The decisions of Parenthood!