Did this ever happen to you, parents?

[jiff]

Okay I am posting a disclaimer... If you have a weak stomach or are very squeemish, read no further, this is a post for parents who may or may not have experienced the same from their two year olds...

I seriously wish I still smoked now. Having my sense of smell dulled would have been a gift from heaven. I'm used to changing messy diapers, but this was THE WORST I have had from this 29 month old boy.

It starts off last night, when I came home from work. My girlfriend tells me he had creamed corn and pasta for dinner. Okay, didn't think much of it. Well, just now at roughly 12:15PM the next day, I found he had a distinct odor to him. I go fetch the diaper wipes powder and all, and come back to change him. Well, he already took his pants off (he likes doing that), and this is when I noticed there was something horrific about to occur.

I will spare the in depth details of the mess I cleaned off his ...., thighs, and surrounding area, but I will tell you.... The smell... It was the first time in over two years I was choking back vomiting. Now the entire room reeks, and I need to air it out and possibly only enter the room in a hazmat suit for the next week or so.

How many parents has this happened to? As I said, this was no ordinary messy diaper... This was something entirely of it's own... Some sort of monster...

I may have nightmares tonight.

 

[Nyxie]

Uh ya been there. Febreeze helps but not much LOL.
At least he didn't remove it and finger paint with it. When my 3 yr old was still wearing diapers she would take them off and play in it. We finally had to put the diapers on backward and tape them.

 

[ejoker]

four kids, the youngest now 14. i've gone through multitudes of drips, overflows and grand mudslides.

the worst is when changing a full load, just as you pull the diaper down, and the little bugger emits a blasting cap of gas from her little sphincter - there was no fan, but the .... definitely hit. it was like a fragment grenade.

i feel your pain jiff, but i'm glad i'm out of the combat zone.

 

[pianoguy]

It's too bad you can't record that moment in its entirety, to play back for him someday in the future when he won't behave or do you some favor - you could say "You OWE me!" ;-)

 

[Happy Domino38]

We have always said the same thing.."how can something so small, make so much of something that smells SO bad?" My daughter was 12 inches long when she was born, she was a FLOOR TILE.

First night, there we are in the hospital room. No windows, (yeah, we got stuck in one of THOSE the 1st night), the hubby snaps the light off and I hear him crashing and banging back toward the chair when, it happened. A poof that ripped the very fabric of TIME. I was SHOCKED. My husband did NOT do things like that! So, I said, "THAT, was ATTRACTIVE.." and he comes back with, "THAT, wasn't ME.."

And, I swear on her LIFE, she GIGGLED.

 

[UntamedRose]

My son is the diaper bomber.....from birth he safes up those BM's and only goes every 3-4 days(which I'm told is normal o0)
But when he goes.......he goes and there isnt a diaper on the market that can contain it.

One day I had him in my lap, at the computer sitting on a boppy......when he starts giggling and I feel something warm on my thigh. To say the least he got, himself..front and back, my pants and shirt, the boppy, the desk chair, the carpet where it dripped off the chair, the kitchen floor and stairs as mommy ran him to the bathroom. 8-o

every 3-4 days....it's an event, we have learn not to go out on those days

 

[Rosa]

My daughter had some sort of digestion problem as a baby... the doctors could never figure it out because she didn't seem to have any allergy to milk (or soy) or anything like that but IMO she had some strange "baby IBS" or something.

I'd actually hear it starting to go and I'd grab her up and RUN to the bathroom with her.. she'd have liquidy "stuff" just streaming down the back of her and onto the carpet and it was my job to get her into the tub with minimum damage and hose her off. This happened A LOT!

Fortunately, it started to abate around 3 years old. Now she just has gas like you wouldn't believe. True story:

She woke me up in the middle of the night because she was having some horrible stomach cramps. She was crying and holding her tummy and generally just miserable. I felt around her tummy area and her stomach had a huge hard lump in it! So off to Urgent Care we go. They get her situated in an examining room and the nurse gives her some Maalox and crackers and juice and leaves for a moment. She lets out the loudest longest fart I've ever heard in my life and then she says, "I feel a lot better now. Can we go home?"

How embarrassing! I can't believe I took my daughter to Urgent Care because she had to fart.

 

[Moonflame]

My son picked my birthday to decorate his room and himself with so much poo I think he had to invite in friends to get it, because there is no way that much came out of one 2 year old. I had about 30 friends arriving about half an hour later and I had just gotten out of the shower with just enough time to put on makeup and get dressed. He was covered from the top of his head to his toes, the back of his bedroom door and 2 walls were painted as he could read and he covered about 20 toys. To this day, I'm still unsure how it all came out of him. But it's a great story to threaten to tell his friends now that he's 18 .

 

[Orion]

I have two girls, 4 & 7 now, but I'll tell you what happened isn't rare.

My oldest pride & joy decided (not sure it was conscious, may have been primal instinct) on her precious 6th day of life to have a screamfest after she filled her diaper. I promptly took her to the changing table thinking she must be getting a rash (new mom, ok).

I cleaned her, and was making a 3 point shot into the trash can with her diaper when I heard a weird noise. I looked at her and freaked out because she was turning purple. Well....I yelled for my husband and went into new mom panic mode. About 5 second later...I don't even know how to describe this.....she shot poop 4 feet straight out onto the wall....8-o. Yes, it "shot". Yes it was awful. Yes I tell her the story all the time.

Yes, I measured as soon as I could pick my chin up off the floor and put my eyes back in my head.
And needless to say, I've changed many, many "interesting" diapers since and my 4 year old did the same thing, except she was 5 days old, it was on the couch and it went across my lap onto the armrest

And remember, you will always have a good story to tell your child when he gets older. grab the febreeze, open the windows, and occupy yourself in another room

 

[quakereject]

Kind of glad I haven't had to deal with this from a child.

From an older person, well... that's a different story. Hosing down an ER room because someone basically had their rectum explode in it is not a fun job. At least I had a mask and got paid for it, you guys do this for free.
Course there was that one time where the ER doc dug a baseball sized turd out of some poor 8 year old's rear that was blocking him up.

I just wish people would realize that cinnamon and poop do not an acceptable aroma make. Stupid "industrial strength" hospital air sanitizers.

 

[Orion]

My daughter had some sort of digestion problem as a baby... the doctors could never figure it out because she didn't seem to have any allergy to milk (or soy) or anything like that but IMO she had some strange "baby IBS" or something.

I'd actually hear it starting to go and I'd grab her up and RUN to the bathroom with her.. she'd have liquidy "stuff" just streaming down the back of her and onto the carpet and it was my job to get her into the tub with minimum damage and hose her off. This happened A LOT!

Fortunately, it started to abate around 3 years old. Now she just has gas like you wouldn't believe. True story:

She woke me up in the middle of the night because she was having some horrible stomach cramps. She was crying and holding her tummy and generally just miserable. I felt around her tummy area and her stomach had a huge hard lump in it! So off to Urgent Care we go. They get her situated in an examining room and the nurse gives her some Maalox and crackers and juice and leaves for a moment. She lets out the loudest longest fart I've ever heard in my life and then she says, "I feel a lot better now. Can we go home?"

How embarrassing! I can't believe I took my daughter to Urgent Care because she had to fart.

OMG!


My aunt did the same thing, went to the ER thinking she was dying. After the got her IV in the nurse came back with pain medicine while they waited for her turn for a cat scan. She let one rip and problem was solved.

This was 4 years ago and yes we still laugh about her visit to the ER because she had to fart.

 

[jj2]

Uh ya been there. Febreeze helps but not much LOL.
At least he didn't remove it and finger paint with it. When my 3 yr old was still wearing diapers she would take them off and play in it. We finally had to put the diapers on backward and tape them.

Found some two piece PJs that buttoned at the top in the back. I sewed the bottoms to the top so she couldn’t take them off because she liked to play in it too.
Smearing on window ledges and in drawers was a biggie.

 

[BradSmith]

Kind of glad I haven't had to deal with this from a child.

From an older person, well... that's a different story. Hosing down an ER room because someone basically had their rectum explode in it is not a fun job. At least I had a mask and got paid for it, you guys do this for free.
Course there was that one time where the ER doc dug a baseball sized turd out of some poor 8 year old's rear that was blocking him up.

I just wish people would realize that cinnamon and poop do not an acceptable aroma make. Stupid "industrial strength" hospital air sanitizers.

My favorite ER cleanup was charcoal/puke.

 

[BradSmith]

One of mine liked to decorate the walls with his. It's really nice when you have just put up nice new wallpaper in the guest room because your Mother in Law is coming out for vaction. He couldn't have done it earlier, oh no, he waited and got the walls about two minutes before she showed up. it was litterlly "Hi MOM let me show you your room so you can unpack", followed by "Dear lord what is that stench"?

 

[Rosa]

Oh, I remembered another one. My daughter was about 5 years old and

she said, "mommy, I got poop on my finger by accident and wiped it on your towel."

I said, "thanks for telling me, honey. When did it happen?"

her, "a few days ago"

me *silently mini-barfing into my mouth*

 

[quakereject]

My favorite ER cleanup was charcoal/puke.

Mmm, charcoal.

The worst was this poor kid who just had his tonsils taken out and his stitches came loose. So he was peppering the carpet, floors and walls of the waiting room and ER with giant clotted blood chunder bits. It was pretty damn nasty, didn't help the mother either, she freaked thinking something super bad was going down.

 

[HzG8rGrl]

We have all been there and done that numerous times. Each time felt like the first and we hoped it would be the last.
Payment....well we get that in pure love. The best form of payment anyone can ever get, is from a child.
I love my formerly stank spewing girls with all my heart.
There were times the spew came from the nose and mouth in form of, well.....you get the drift. Seems to always be too much iron in the formula when that happens.

 

[shanobi187]

my son is only three months old and thanks to this thread I now fear for my life...thank you all for that, lol! It looks like I have some...interesting times ahead of me.

 

[jiff]

my son is only three months old and thanks to this thread I now fear for my life...thank you all for that, lol! It looks like I have some...interesting times ahead of me.

Wierd, after coming home from work and being able to check on this thread I actually feel a whole hell of a lot better.

Guess I don't have anywhere near the worse end of the spectrum.

 

[Nyxie]

Kind of glad I haven't had to deal with this from a child.

From an older person, well... that's a different story. Hosing down an ER room because someone basically had their rectum explode in it is not a fun job. At least I had a mask and got paid for it, you guys do this for free.
Course there was that one time where the ER doc dug a baseball sized turd out of some poor 8 year old's rear that was blocking him up.

I just wish people would realize that cinnamon and poop do not an acceptable aroma make. Stupid "industrial strength" hospital air sanitizers.

I have the utmost respect for health care workers and teachers, in that order. I don't know what I would do if I had to see the things that are seen in an er or hospital. I would be in the john constantly losing my lunch.