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Reason #69 – I let my son stew in his own wee
Reason #69 – I let my son stew in his own wee
Aug 17Call the Bad Mom Police. I let my son marinade in his own piss and I am not ashamed to admit it.
OK, maybe a little ashamed. But I had a good excuse.
At least I did the first time it happened.
The first time I let C stew in his own urine was in an airplane over the Atlantic. He kept finding ways to make his diaper leak, and I had only brought so many changes for the 20-plus-hour flight. So on the third time I cage wrestled the little guy (can airplane loos be any smaller?) and found his onesie had a wet spot, I just dabbed at it with a tissue, put on a fresh diaper, and dressed him again. It’s not like anyone was gonna photograph him.
Oops. Oh well, once it dried out you’d never know.
Last night, however? An entirely different kettle of piss.
Sleep has been scarce the past couple of weeks. Between C’s non-stop teething, a cold, a growth spurt, hunger, and Argento-style nightmares (I should have never let him watch those films, but he begged so much!) C has been waking me up pretty much every night between 2 and 3 am for an hour of fun.
Fun fun fun.
Last night C woke me up with the nightly serenade of high-pitched wailing. I stumbled blindly to his cot and discovered two things:
- He was wet all the way to his shoulders
- He was still asleep
Suddenly, I had an ancestral vision. The wisdom from many generations had been passed on to me by my grandmother when she came to meet my newborn. Like any modern woman, I completely ignored her sage words until last night, when their truth became blindingly clear. I sprang into action.
Did my grandmother teach me a secret way of changing a baby without waking him up?
Did she tell me how to magically make jammies dry up?
Did she hell.
She said: “When your father was a baby he’d get his jammies wet almost every night. My mother said it was best to leave him like that: he was warm in his wet jammies, and stripping him would only make him catch a chill.”
Thank you, great grandma. I shall honour the family tradition.
And so I wrapped C tight in his two warmest blankies, gave him a kiss and went back to sleep.
I’ll wash everything tomorrow.
No pictures were taken. No one needs to know.
LOL! I’ve totally done that!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 28th, 2010 at 8:30 am
And it didn’t kill them, did it? ;)
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Same!! Never wake a sleeping baby. Thus happened to me on first trip to the mall with baby and my mum. I was all for going to kmart and buying new clothes but mum convinced me that pee was warm *shrug* who was i to argue with mother. Learned quickly to keep .change of clothes in handbag!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 20th, 2010 at 10:57 am
I ALWAYS carry extra changes for C.
But they are never enough. Never enough.
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If there are no pictures if the wet pajamas then there is no proof it actually happened. You’re good!
I love how Grandmas still think getting cold means you’ll get sick even though we know now that germs cause sickness.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 19th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Oh, but EVERYBODY knows of the direct relation between your body temperature and your immune system’s efficiency.
It’s almost science.
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I didn’t get much advice from my mom, but one thing she told me is to NEVER wake a sleeping baby. Sleeping baby in pee soaked jammies is still a happy, sleeping baby!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 18th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
My mom was at odds with my grandma (her MIL,) and at first I sided with my mom.
But now? Now I side with whomever will let me sleep the longest.
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This is okay because a)urine is sterile, b)a sleeping baby is a happy, totally content with living inside his pee-soaked jammies, baby, and c)you’re reducing your carbon footprint by cutting down on the number of disposable diapers you use. High fives all around!!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 18th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Wet jammies trifecta!
You are GOOD.
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Didn’t someone say, “Let sleeping babies lie?”, or was it dogs? Hell, let’s be safe and leave them both alone.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 18th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Couldn’t agree more. Hear hear.
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And THAT is why when I wet myself in the middle of the night?
I just let it be.
Get over it, people.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 17th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Men have it so easy.
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Nigel Reply:
August 18th, 2010 at 1:46 am
We do.
Other than you women abusing us so.
We cry when we think you aren’t looking.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 18th, 2010 at 8:48 am
…thus depriving us of half the fun.
Oh yes! I have done this before!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 17th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
The wisdom of ages. Who are we to oppose it?
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Am I the only one that had the “Explode a Load of Blue Shit” Huggies Line? No way would that shit have flown (no pun intended) when my free loader was a toddler.
I so love this idea now…should I ever pro-create again.
Still love your blog!!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 17th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
I once stepped on a heavy diaper that was on its way to the bin. Ooee. That was NOT fun to clean.
But at least I like blue.
AND it didn’t smell.
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Both of my daughters always woke and screamed when they wet themselves. So I never got to let them stew in their own juices. I would have liked to have been given that chance, as sleep? Would have been lovely.
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I’m sooo totally with Alana in this one, let ‘im stew… and as you said, he WAS still asleep, he’ll never know… until he starts to read this that is :) lol
Never wake a sleeping Baby..
I want a sign that says Never wake a sleeping Momma!! lol
Bex
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ofthesea Reply:
August 17th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
It would make a great bumper sticker!
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Nothing wrong with the rule. It goes right with never wake a sleeping baby. Unless they are on the train tracks or something. But even then, you can still let them sleep as long as possible. LOL
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ofthesea Reply:
August 17th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Can you believe I went against it and actually changed him when wet? Only when awake, tho – I’m with you on the “not waking EVER” team!
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