Poop Happens

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So funny new parent story time. When we first brought JJ home from the hospital, I quickly learned that red meat causes him to get really gassy and constipated. Unfortunately, to learn this meant eating red meat and him being super gassy and constipated. In the hospital, every meal they gave me was red meat (my own fault).

He passed the meconium stage within our time in the hospital, but then he didn't poop again for days. As new parents, this had us freaking out. I knew from things I had read online (I am an over-googler) that it's nothing to worry about until your little one hasn't gone poop for a week. Still, we were pretty concerned as it had been a couple days.

I myself was having some issues with constipation after I got home from the hospital and was nervous about going because of my stitches. I was taking a stool softener, but nothing was happening. I decided to try something that always worked for me before having a baby.

I got one of those Starbucks refrigerator frappuccino things and downed it as fast as I could. Not thinking, I breastfed JJ later that day as well. Rusty and I quickly learned that this was the solution to our little constipated bundle.

JJ suddenly was super fussy and freaking out. Rusty was going to do some skin to skin while I got ready to feed him again. With his shirt off and JJ down to a diaper, Rusty went to put JJ to his chest. He describes what happened next as follows:

"I started hearing him fart. I went to look what the problem was and turned him around slowly. I was holding him with his butt facing me and saw it start gushing out his diaper up his back. I started freaking out and could only say help over and over again. I think I got poop on me." (He definitely did.)

Me after laughing the whole time because, let's be real, it's funny.
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Rusty quickly went into the nursery where we had a changing table set up and set him down to start changing him at my suggestion. This caused the mess to only leak all over the changing pad. I was absolutely no help unfortunately. I grabbed a new diaper and Rusty got our baby cleaned up and in a new diaper as quickly as he could. JJ then promptly filled that diaper to bursting as well.

After filling two diapers and getting him changed into a third, he seemed much more content. That was four days of poop in his little bitty body coming out all at once. As new parents, we were complete noobs and didn't know what we were doing. We had to clean the changing table with bleach because it was so covered with his mess. We were able to immediately laugh at our complete lack of skill and now it's one of my favorite new parents stories to tell. It was an eventful first blowout experience. I don't know that we really handle blowouts with any less chaos three months later but at least we can still laugh at ourselves.

After all, poop happens.

Our most recent blow-out experience. JJ only poops on his daddy ;)