Step One: Feel for sogginess on outside of diaper. Remind self not to ever stick finger in edge of diaper again.
Step Two: Lay baby down on bed.
Step Three: Pick baby back up, walk over to diaper bin and pick up a diaper.
Step Four: Walk back to bed, lay baby back down, whilst untangling hair from his hands.
Step Five: Unfold diaper, open wipes, and get them ready for use.
Step Six: Roll baby back onto his back.
Step Seven: Tell baby you’re going to change his diaper, and laugh as he pulls his feet up for you.
Step Eight: Unfasten the tabs, whilst making faces at baby. Sing silly songs about changing said diaper to (hopefully) keep baby’s attention for more than 9.2 seconds.
Step Nine: Quickly pull wet diaper down, and try to calm racing heart as the threat of being showered upon looms in the back of your mind.
Step Ten: Wipe baby, and remove a strand of your long hair from diaper area. (How did THAT get there??)
Step Eleven: Reach for fresh diaper, turn baby back over on his back, and place diaper under tushy.
Step Twelve: Remove diaper, and turn it around the correct way. Remind self yet again that tabs always go in the back.
Step Thirteen: Quickly lift front of diaper between legs and say a quick prayer that you remained high and dry.
Step Fourteen: Blow a rasperry on baby’s belly, and spend the next 5 minutes laughing as your baby blows raspberries back at you.
Step Fifteen: Pausing for a few moments, you suddenly remember that you were in the middle of something. What was it??
Step Sixteen: Roll baby back onto his back.
Step Seventeen: Straiten the now smushed diaper, and fasten the tabs.
Step Eighteen: Unfasten the tabs and move them higher so they don’t cut into baby’s thighs. Roll baby back onto his back. Blow one more raspberry on baby’s belly.
Step Nineteen: Proceed to put baby’s clothes back on. Spend 5 minutes trying to button the buttons before realizing that he has outgrown the outfit during the time it took to change his diaper.
Step Twenty: Pick naked-but-diapered baby up, walk to his closet, and visually discern which outfits might still fit him. Try on five outfits you’ve been “saving” before realizing that he’s outgrown all of them before he even had a chance to wear them.
Step Twenty One: Yell gleefully and dance down the hall with baby when you finally find one that fits.
Step Twenty Two: Return to living room, and sit down with baby to nurse.
Step Twenty Three: Watch baby latch on, lean back, and pick up a book you’ve been dying to read.
Step Twenty Four: Listen to baby grunt, and (in horror) watch baby’s face turn red during the sudden grunting session.
Step Twenty Five: Try to convince self that the warm, smushy, smelly wet brown stuff leaking out on your thigh is not in any way related to baby’s grunts.
Step Twenty Six: (See step one).
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Hsyterical about #’s 19 & 20. I can so relate!
I got those cool little cloest helpers that you put on the dowel and have the size of clothes on them (3, 6, 9 months, etc.) and the clothes then get divvied up within that “system”. I still miss stuff.
John is so big and we are finding that we are missing out on a lot of the precious outfits we were saving for church or a special gathering because he is growing so fast! I give up. Now, he’s wearin’ it all, all the time!
I had the same problem with Jak too, and he was on target for all of his clothes’ sizes…I think it’s a fairly common one. They have so many clothes and we develop our favorites (or save them for the right outing) and end up missing stuff.
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Kelly » I can definitely relate to “having favorites”!!!! Jack has (it seems) millions of clothes gifted to him…yet there are always those 3-4 pieces that I am constantly putting on him. I think he’s gonna run big in clothes…he’s almost outgrown size 6 months, and the other day we had a size 18 mos sweater vest on him and it fit great. His feet are really large too (not surprising though since Kevin is size 14 shoe!). I have the nursery closet divided up too, but i tend to keep the few favorite outfits in a laundry basket in our master bedroom because it’s so much easier – although he’s growing so fast, that I’ve been digging in his closet a bit more lately (and thus finding outfits that he didn’t even get to wear). I literally put 5 pairs of his freshly laundered PJ’s on him the other day before finding one that finally fit him, so I’ve been pulling out his bigger pajamas from the closet this past week also. I keep telling myself I need to get a storage box to drop all of his outgrown clothes in, but my heart’s not ready to do that yet..haha..
Hahaha. This was the top google search for “changing 5 month old diaper”. It wasn’t what I was looking for (magic maybe?) but it was what I needed to read. So glad I’m not alone.