there are some basic skills i have acquired in the last two months that can only be gained from experience. No one tells you how to "Aspirate" your child's nasal passages, but it must be done to dislodge stubborn boogers and help them breathe. No one teaches you how to take your child's temperature rectally, but it is the most accurate way, and must be done as well. I just think nurses should tell parents these things so they don't have to learn by taking their child to the doctor unneccessarily as sometimes happens. Fortunately, i have Sister #1, Sister #2, and Sister #3 to lean on for advice in these simple tasks.
One recently acquired skill however, was not learned from these professional mommmies. They would never have gone to the mall to do Christmas shopping with only three spare diapers. But i did. And while nursing my child in the ladies' lounge at Belk, he naturally blew out a diaper. After the first change you think i would have learned. He blew out another one. AND ANOTHER ONE. So i had used up all of our diapers (and yes, they were all quite full), so the only thing left to cover his little rear was the burp cloth i had been using... a "cloth diaper" if you will. Unfortunately, i did not have these handy instructions, but i think i did an okay job of it in the pinch i was in. But even after scurrying to the car and home as quickly as possible, he was in hysterics again because he had completely soaked through this one too by the time we got home.
The moral of this story should be, always have at least four diapers in your diaper bag. But my moral is NEVER entertain the idea of using cloth diapers, no matter how environmentally friendly someone thinks they might be. There is no wicking moisture away from the body... and really, they don't work. Just keep filling up the landfills with pampers. Your sanity as a mother depends on it.
ps - i had a full unopened box of pampers in the car... realized much too late.
2 comments:
Sounds like something that would happen to us! I had to take Dakota to day care with a dirty diaper because I sent all of them with her and forgot to buy more AND when we were backpacking the first time we didn't pack enough AND the second time we forgot the wipes. Needless to say leaves were not going to cut it so we had to use toilet paper! How bad is that!!! Thanks for keeping me laughing Danielle. We should write a book.
I just wonder - did you happen to have a pair of those plastic pants that go over the cloth diapers? You could have called me - I could just be the resident expert on cloth diapers in the family - apart from my mom, of course who didn't have pampers and survived 7 bottoms! "This too shall pass!"
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