Volcano about to erupt.
“Momma I peed!” my 3 year old Adalyn shouts!
“Don’t forget to wipe!” I call back.
“Now I need to poop!” She says.
“Ok I’ll be there in a minute to help”. I say.
I put my 10-month-old Andrew down by the toys as I walk over to the bathroom to help my daughter wipe.
“I made a pooh nugget!” Ady says.
“Great job Ady”! I help her wipe and watch as she washes her hands. She is such a big girl now!
We sing our song! “I made a nugget… A stinky pooh nugget!” (Sung) It is so funny that joking about making pooh nuggets in the potty was our way of getting her to poop in the big girl potty. One day she just shouted, “I made a pooh nugget!” In Ady’s case, they were nuggets. While getting her to pee on the potty could be a struggle, she never hesitated to poop on the potty! We just sang our pooh nugget song!
I look over at Andrew and see that look. It’s his poop face. Then it happened. There is so much poop pouring out of his diaper that it is crawling up his back then crumbling over the back of his diaper and dripping down to the floor making a poop pool on the carpet. It happened so fast! It was unbelievable! It was like a volcano that ruptured poop. Except that it wasn’t. It was a butt and ruptured poop all over the carpet!!!! Holy shit!!
You can imagine what this mess was like to clean up. I’ll spare you the details but, I will go on to say that the volcano erupted 2x more that day. This will begin my son’s pipe cleaning and hopefully be the beginning to the end of a very long and painful journey for my little man. Hopefully.
This post is dedicated to all the parents. Mommas especially, who have struggled with reflux and infant constipation. If you tap in you will find there are so many of us out there. I pray you know that you are not alone. I may joke about this journey and pooh nuggets and volcanoes erupting but it is my way of dealing and laughing about it all. I hope you can find laughter through some of this as well.