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Parents of babies, go on, admit it, you know you're obsessed with it...

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Somersaults · 26/01/2012 20:55

...poo.

Frequency, consistency, colour, amount...

I honestly never thought I would think about or talk about poo so much but here I am, 8 weeks into being a parent, and thoughts about poo do take up a fair amount of my day!

Admit it, you're the same.

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scentednappyhag · 26/01/2012 20:57

Nope, sorry Grin but you're definitely not alone, my DH drove me up the wall with poo talk!

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Somersaults · 26/01/2012 21:04

Maybe it's because DD has had some poo problems... I just spend most of the day consoling her while she tries to go and wishing for a pooey nappy (now I never thought I'd ever wish for that!!!) and then I feel like I must analyse it when she does go!!

Perhaps being at home all day instead of working is doing funny things to my brain!

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Albrecht · 26/01/2012 21:24

Wait til you start introducing solids...

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JeelyPiece · 26/01/2012 22:53
Grin

I give DH detailed reports on amount, consistency, positioning of baby during the event and entertainment value of DS's poo face. I have even been known to photograph it

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Somersaults · 26/01/2012 22:56

Ok, I have not yet photographed it! Although sometimes maybe I should just to prove to DH what I have had to deal with while he's been at work!

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piprabbit · 26/01/2012 23:06

When I had DC2, all the baby cots in the postnatal ward had a copy of this information sheet. Very informative and strangely fascinating.

Chinateacup · 26/01/2012 23:07

Haha I am anti-poo but I think that's only because my mum is so very obsessed with it she'll come to observe the nappy change just in case there's some there Hmm

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Somersaults · 27/01/2012 00:22

piprabbit That was the sheet they opened with in our NCT childbirth classes!! There we were, six couples about to be parents for the first time, total strangers, discussing poo at 10am on a Saturday morning before we'd even been introduced!!

Maybe that's to blame for the poo obsession... Hmmmm...

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G1nger · 27/01/2012 09:10

Yep, we're in.

Laughing at Chinateacup's mother though Grin

BikeRunSki · 27/01/2012 09:23

Wait til you have a 3 yo who witholds his poo for up to two weeks and gets grumpier and grumpier as no-poo time goes on; coupled with a 3 month old who poos copious amounts of mustard coloured milkshake, I spend more time thinking about other people's poo than I ever imagined possible.

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Somersaults · 27/01/2012 09:31

bike that thinking time is exactly what I'm talking about! I knew I was having a baby but I did not know I would be spending this much time thinking about poo!!

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candr · 27/01/2012 17:15

My DH has told a fair few people about DS projectile poo as he was so impressed with how far it squirted Grin

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fishyonadishy · 27/01/2012 17:24

No.

Yuck.

One of my antenatal group chums was like this, wanted to talk about it all the time. I remember the time I got a paniced text because he'd fed and THEN NOT POO'D WHEN HE USUALLY DOES AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

Also can't stand people (usually women of my Mother's generation) who constantly say "oh, I think she's filling her nappy" when the baby never bloody is.

But, you know, whatever floats your boat op Grin

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mrsseed · 27/01/2012 17:37

Had to ask nursery what BM meant but only when second child went there!
BM=bowel movement-why they dont just say poo I dont know-but then I work for a water company and we call it sludge!

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Somersaults · 27/01/2012 20:02

Also, why does she always save the really nasty ones for me?! The ones where she needs a bath after! DH never seems to get those ones!

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ellesabe · 29/01/2012 19:41

I especially loved it when I started to find fun stuff in there. Tomato skin, sweetcorn, kiwi seeds...

piprabbit · 30/01/2012 01:04

Grin at the fun stuff. There was a memorable thread a while ago about fun stuff in nappies. My favourite was the glitter.

ellesabe · 30/01/2012 09:18

Glitter? Grin

Woodlands · 30/01/2012 09:37

fishyonadishy yes! That used to drive me mad! When DS was EBF he used to poo about once every 8-10 days, so it was a pretty rare occurrence, yet my mum/MIL/gran etc always seemed convinced he was filling his nappy constantly. It was generally farts. When he did poo, because it was so rare, it was actually quite exciting - it would normally be a whole outfit coated in the stuff as one nappy couldn't contain that much poo. More than once we started to change the nappy when he had done quite a lot of poo, but soon realised he hadn't finished - jets of yellow BF baby poo shooting everywhere. It was incredible!

sorry - went off on a bit of a tangent there

Woodlands · 30/01/2012 09:38

oops, didn't mean to bold that

piprabbit · 30/01/2012 09:44

Here you go, ellesabe.

KabelFlowerBed · 30/01/2012 10:19

I remember finding a whole grape amongst the poo once in DD1 nappy. Can't have the most fun to pass. I was a bit Shock as she hadn't eaten any grapes whole or otherwise. Worked out it was a raisin that had somehow rehydrated along its journey. I remained a bit Shock