To not freak out if baby vomits on the floor

[Hard2Find09]

Sorry this is a gross one!

Our 7 month old dd has been feeling unwell and has vomited a few times today. Our rented apartment has wood floors throughout the kitchen and living areas. Every time she starts to throw up my dp panics and runs around the apartment with her to try and get her to the bathroom or to our large area rug. I think this is nuts!

We don’t get a lot of warning that she is going to be sick. I think it’s fine if it gets on the wood floors as it’s easy to wash them compared to the rug. I of course run to find a towel or something whilst my partner holds her. My partner thinks that because we rent this is unacceptable. He is never the one to clean it up because it makes him feel sick.

Aibu here?

No

It’s much easier to clean off wooden floor than fabric

Your partner sounds a bit thick TBH. Assuming your baby isn't vomiting acid, Alien-style, then I'd say on the hard floor is absolutely the best place for it. Have a stack of towels nearby and it cam be cleaned up almost immediately. No big deal.

Running around is worse, you'll have less control about where it splatters than if you just move in 2 seconds to the first reasonable space (like a very easily cleaned hard floor).

They don't learn to get to the toilet in time to vomit until about age 8yrs old, btw. (Or more like 16 in case of my DS). Your partner is gonna have to revise expectations.

Oh God. My DH has always been equally irrational with vomiting children or animals. Seizes them and heads for the nearest covered floor You won’t get a 7mo over a toilet unless you’re right next to one - keep them over moppable surface like wood, vinyl, laminate.

I find a few strategically places sick bowls do the trick!

Why the rug though?! Tell him you’ll clean the wood floors and he cleans the rug. Bet he gets it on the floor suddenly...

My ex used to really freak out about baby sick. I remember baby DD puking in our bed once when he was holding her, it was only a small amount and mostly milk and he chucked her at me, leapt up, leaving her upset and covered in sick to strip off his clothes and get in the shower for 20 mins. No thought to comforting her or concerning himself with cleaning her up at all.

Is your partner a bit daft? Why the hell would it be better to have vomit on the rug than the easily cleaned floor?

I don't deal with sick. But even i know not on carpet

Yes, he is being unreasonable and needs to chill out a bit. Even if you had carpet, the sick would still come out (personal experience with my own!). He can't exactly sit baby down and say "listen to me, baby, we have rented accommodation and you being sick is not on - stop it now!". He'll end up a nervous wreck if he worries about these sorts of things!

Poor kid being flung about while feeling sick, by an idiotic father.

This brought back lots of memories of being regularly coated in what seemed like 5l of milky sick 🤣 we never had any warning either so it was usually while we were sat in the rocking chair (on carpet) or in our room / bed (carpet). Glad that phase is over! But yeah, scrubbing sick out of carpet at 3am is not fun at all

@AWryGiraffe I had the same flashbacks - I've never been able to eat cottage cheese since the first incident!

@SuperCaliFragalistic

My ex used to really freak out about baby sick. I remember baby DD puking in our bed once when he was holding her, it was only a small amount and mostly milk and he chucked her at me, leapt up, leaving her upset and covered in sick to strip off his clothes and get in the shower for 20 mins. No thought to comforting her or concerning himself with cleaning her up at all.

Glad he’s your EX. What a tool.

He's nuts, why on the rug??

Also would he like it if he didn't feel well and someone was running about with him as he was being sick.

DD was a projectile vomiter the second I heard a rumble I would hold her out over the wooden floor so it was easy to clean. Panicking and running around will lead to more clean up and risk hitting something not cleanable.
My DH panics when the kids are ill and goes off to be helpful getting something unnecessary when I need him nearby. Even he knew to hold her out until it was over.

I'm more bothered about the fact that he isn't pitching in to clean up the puke. That's not on.

Better the wood than the rug!
Over the years we've developed a routine to deal with vomiting kids/babies. After the first batch settles whoever is holding them moves to the bathroom and sits with them in the empty bath (with a bowl for the older one) while the other parent cleans up the mess, sorts out clean pjs/sheets/spare towels etc. Keeps the mess somewhat contained and is easier to clean up if there is more vomiting.

Just keep a bucket nearby, don't run around with a throwing up baby 🤦‍♀️

Cover the floor in puppy pads just in case..... also useful for potty training and putting on the changing mat when they decide to do business without a nappy on!

I also keep a large pile of muslins nearby for spills, sick and everything else.

We got laminate floors for this reason, I was fed up of scrubbing carpets and them smelling cause you can never get it clean.

Steam mop on the hard floor job done

Create a sick bowl/ bucket

He's being an idiot, is he usually an idiot?

He'd be cleaning the rug.

Hope DD is ok, poor wee mite.

I mean, no one loves dealing with sick but I had even more respect for my husband when our small son threw up all over the back seat of the car and while I was inside the house cleaning him up and comforting him, he had cleaned out the whole car.
When they were small he had no qualms at all about holding a vomming child and our other son always gets sick on planes and he’s just calmly there with a sick bag and a glass of coke for when he’s done.

OP - if you partner wears a mask (standard issue covid one) then he'll be shielded from the smell and he'll be able to do his fair share of the cleaning up. Ta dah!

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For me the answer to this depends on the type of wood floor. If original wooden boards, with small gaps between, (and quite possibly floating) then it will be disastrous if she vomits on that as it will go into the gaps between the boards and you will never get it all out and the smell will be awful as time goes on.

If it is laminate or another type of engineered board (or faux wood

• something like Karndean or Amtico) with no gaps then they are easily cleaned and she's better to vomit on there instead.