Let the baby wake up fully

So on Saturday, we witnessed an interesting phenomenon with Sierra in that she had zero sleep all day long which is abnormal as she generally takes a few naps.  Of course, because of this, she was quite cranky.

Then Sunday shows up and she proceeds to sleep from 10am when I took her for a walk until around 8PM!  She did wake up for feedings, but would go back to sleep right away.  While this gave us an excellent Sunday afternoon around the house to do things that weren’t baby related, it also set us up for a night where she didn’t really sleep all that much.

ANYHOW, when she was waking up around 8PM, I figured I would swoop in and change her diaper before another feeding started.  I peeled back the diaper and no poop was to be seen…bonus!  It’s like I won the diaper lottery!

While I was checking for fecal matter, Sierra let one rip right in my face!  Whew, the stench hit me like a gale force wind and knocked me back a few feet.

I thought “Well, at least nothing else came out the rear end while I was down there!”

Like a Professor X-like telepathic signal, I must have triggered something inside of her and the bowels of Hell (literally!) unleashed a fury that no man should have to witness.  I luckily had the old diaper still laying there and I grabbed it like a hero would dive in front of a kid to save them from a bullet.  Using it as a shield I was afraid that the fabric of this diaper was no match for the sheer force of what I was hearing come out of this 9 lb body.  I managed to nab another diaper and add it to the collection.  I felt like it was just one more sandbag to stop the flood but it just wasn’t going to be enough.

Meanwhile, Vero is wondering what all my yelling is about and comes into the room and proceeds to laugh her ass off.  She’s lying there cramped in the middle of the room while I’m trying to stop this kid’s mess.  I’m pretty sure Vero peed her pants a little from all the laughter.

Sierra finally calmed down enough for me to attempt to cleanup the scene of the crime and I realized I will never, ever try and change her before she has fully awakened.  Because when she is waking up she generally passes some furious gas and now I really know up close and personal what really happens down there when she awakens.