One Person Hazmat Team

[annuin]

In an ideal world you'd grow an extra arm or two while you were pregnant... get a kind of a Kali thing going (or close approximation). Why? Because hazmat diapers and squirmy babies require it.

Dashiell has taken to pooping only about once a day now, which you'd think would be a good thing... less poo diapers to clean up, right? Well... he saves everything up for that single poo diaper, which is the problem... a large amount of high velocity liquidy breastfeeding poo. The result is worthy of a hazmat team.

Mostly you just need the extra arm to hold his hands away, because he likes to try and grab his tackle, or just flails his hands into his diaper. The other two arms are already being employed to hold little legs/butt into the air and clean-up. The fourth arm out of a second pair, were you to have an additional pair of arms rather than one extra, would probably be used to just hold him in place, because Dash has taken to doing a backcrawl up the changing table. This movement is lessened by keeping his butt in the air, but when it comes time to close the diaper, and you're using both hands to fasten it, he quickly digs his heels into the changing pad and thrusts his butt up, and shuffles northward. This amuses him a lot.

Alas, extra arms aren't in the forseeable future, so for now I just get PreZ to help me if he's home for the hazmat diaper, and vice versa.

Comments

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Frustrating though it is, it's kind of good that he's squirmy and not just lying there. Squirmy good - limp and unresponsive bad. You're bringing him on Saturday, right?

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

You're bringing him on Saturday, right?

Of course :)

And yes, it's good he's moving around a lot. He's quite strong in his legs and starting to use his arms more. As far as I can tell he's doing really well.

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Hurray on both counts!

It won't be long until he's toilet trained. It'll just seem like it... ;)

[bonny-katie.livejournal.com]

Riley is doing the same thing. She took a huge poop like 5 minutes after I put her brand new velour SOS on her.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, yeah, they really love the nice soft fabrics, that's for sure.

[abigailvr.livejournal.com]

I needed four hands to nurse Niels in the beginning too. Two for holding the baby, one to hold the breast and one to hold Niels' arms out of the way so he wouldn't push the breast out of his mouth. ;)

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, too true. Dash has gotten into the habit of wanting to hold whatever is in his mouth, be it the breast, your finger or whatever. It's kind of funny, but sometimes a pain in the ass when you're trying to latch him on when he's getting fussy and upset because he's hungry and he's getting in his own way.

They showed us something at the breastfeeding class so that you could at least get the bottom arm out of the way, trapping it underneath and leaving only the top arm to flail around.

I usually have Dash's bottom arm kind of around my waist, if that makes sense. If I'm cradling his head with the hand on the side he's nursing, then he'll hold my wrist. But at least both keep his hand out of the way.

[abigailvr.livejournal.com]

That does become very cute once they are coordinated enough to hold the breast without pushing it away. :)

I think I ended up trapping Niels' lower arm under my breast, or between his body and my breast. For a while I'd swaddle him before each feeding to keep the arms under control.

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[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Should be approved now.

[draelynkhar.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I really needed that laugh this morning.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Glad I could help :)