the most basic of STUPID parenting mistakes

[BennyAndJoon]

DH returned from outside (went to speak to neighbour) 10 minutes after changing DDs nappy.

I had to tell him that leaving the sudocreme pot on the arm of the sofa was not a good idea

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DH not emptying the potty straight away, especially when DS has used the potty in the living room doorway.

Oh that's terrible stuff.

I left dd alone for ooh 5 seconds yesterday. She threw her new £20 cruiser shoes down the toilet. Thankfully they are washable.

leaving a very poohy nappy within reach of a little arm

have done that so many times....

We've all done that. Dd used to love eating the sudocrem and smearing it all over the carpet.

Remember dd1 smeared it all over fabric seattee and herself

How come babywipes take it off bums but nowhere else

How do you get this off?

DD had been ill and had fever but seemed to be better. That night she woke up and I asked DP to take her temperature. He did and when he came back I asked what it had been. "Oh, she's fine, it was only just 39.7"! He'd got confused between 37.9 and 39.7, luckily I thought to ask...

Dh1 once got hold of the sudocrem pot - and it was the largest size, three-quarters full. It was on the shelf over his changing table in his room, and having done a poo in his nappy, he'd stripped off the nappy, wiped his bottom on the sofa and then coated himself, the arm of the sofa, and parts of the carpet in sudocrem.

Then he called us - as we'd told him to do if he pooed in his nappy after bedtime - due to previous nappy-removing, poo on furniture/bedclothes, and ds-back-in-bed-with-pooey-bottom-under-pjs incidents.

Dh cleaned the bedroom (including scraping sudocrem out of the carpet with a fish-slice) whilst I put ds1 in the bath, and soaped him at least three times before all the sudocrem washed off!

After that, I started sellotaping him into his nappy.

Was I bad for taking the time to toke a photo before I washed her mouth out

Almeida very hot soapy water

Hope I never need this tip but thanks just in case!

I timed the age difference between ds1 and ds2 perfectly, so that ds2 was just learning to walk at the same time as ds1 was potty-training, and I lost count of the number of times that ds2 got to a full potty before I did.

His favourite trick was to try to pull himself to standing on it right after I'd changed him and got him dressed in the morning, and catapault the contents all over himself.

He also go to the potty once when it had a poo in it, and dh found him playing with the nice brown playdough (=urghhhhhhhh).

dd1 once woke up in her cot, stood up, reached over the to changing table and ate a full pot of sudocrem.

Several phone calls to docs, hospital and the poison centre confirmed that eating sudocrem is not dangerous to a 9 month old.

(with dd2 and ds, it was always locked away )

PlumBumMum - not bad at all for the photo - save it for her first boyfriend

StayingSunny - that is so much worse than sudocreme alone