To ask how you deal with nappies and potty training etc if you're squeamish?!

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I know I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but I promise I'm not being goady!

Pregnant with my first and I'm already worried about how I'll cope with changing nappies, potty training, wiping bums etc. I am honestly the most squeamish person, I can't abide my own bodily fluids let alone someone else's.

It's something that no one talks about because it seems everyone else doesn't mind. I was out for lunch with a friend yesterday and there was a little girl on the table next to us with her mum and dad. She announced very loudly 'Mummy, I need a poo.' (which when I was eating and am suffering from nausea anyway left me feeling a bit

Ah I was like this. I remember having a drunken conversation with someone about them wiping their kids bum when they were 4 and I was like that makes me physically sick to think about. He explained that the child was just like an extension of him so not that different to wiping your own bum.

I still wasnt convinced.

I actually found changing nappies an easy part of being a parent. The lack of freedom and various other things like the mental pressure I felt breastfeeding ended up being much harder. Baby poo isnt like adult poo, it's much less gross, and it becomes like normal human poo quite gradually. And even if you hate it...I guess you get used to it because the alternative is leaving your baby uncomfortable. And humans have the capacity to get used to most things...just look at how previously normal people cope when they are forced to go to war etc.

Please come back and update this thread after your baby is born though!

I wore swimming nose clips to change nappies with my 1st then again with my 3rd as developed a ridiculous sense of smell

Don't nose clips make you breathe through your mouth? Isn't that worse?

You get used to it

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Ah I was like this. I remember having a drunken conversation with someone about them wiping their kids bum when they were 4 and I was like that makes me physically sick to think about. He explained that the child was just like an extension of him so not that different to wiping your own bum.

I still wasnt convinced.

I actually found changing nappies an easy part of being a parent. The lack of freedom and various other things like the mental pressure I felt breastfeeding ended up being much harder. Baby poo isnt like adult poo, it's much less gross, and it becomes like normal human poo quite gradually. And even if you hate it...I guess you get used to it because the alternative is leaving your baby uncomfortable. And humans have the capacity to get used to most things...just look at how previously normal people cope when they are forced to go to war etc.

Please come back and update this thread after your baby is born though!

Would you feel this way if your child had additional needs? My son is 3 and can't communicate any toilet needs. I can't see potty training in the near future