As a first-time dad and blogger, I'm likely to post about things that maybe aren't really of interest to others or may reveal a bit more information than someone wants to know about a topic. Please write it off as me being a newb. With apologies, this post is likely to cross some boundaries...
Last Friday we had some concerns that Aubrey was a bit jaundiced. The whites of her eyes yellowed, she got lethargic, and she stopped pooping. By Saturday afternoon when we checked out of the hospital she hadn't pooped in 20 hours. At the 24 hour mark we called the doctor and were told that everything was likely okay as long as she was still eating and peeing. She was, so we relaxed. Well, T did anyways. My anxiety grew with each passing hour. Thankfully our concerns were alleviated shortly thereafter. The poop-splosion blew up the front, back, and out the legs of her diaper. It was truly amazing. Here's a video of my dad and I about 1/2 way through the diaper change, after the poop-splosion was cleaned up. Aunt Kim is running the video and providing the narrative. I'm cleaning Aubrey's umbilical cord which took the brunt of the front-side trajectory:
Aubrey is no longer showing signs of jaundice which is great. I, on the other hand, my be permanently marked by the experience. Apparently my quality-assurance, quality control protocol failed when putting on the clean diaper. In the time it took to get Aubrey from the dresser to T for a feeding the clean diaper was around Aubrey's knees. With dad as the witness it will be a long time before I live this story down.
7/01/2008
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We evidently have to keep a tight rein on you dad. The letters QAQC, while very appropriate in say, a conversation about data collection and management, by say, a nerdy scientist, are not really even a part of the lexicon pertaining to sweet little girls and their fallible daddies.
I'm just sayin...
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