My wife, our twin 4.5 month old daughters and I were at my sister’s apartment for the 4th of July. I had one girl on my lap and she was gruntin’ and groanin’ like she was making a big ol’ dumpy for daddy. After she was done I held her up and pulled the diaper aside a little and peered in and saw a dark object in the diaper. Yep, she just made a dumpy. So I passed her off to my wife, who laid her down, pulled the diaper off, and started cracking up. What she laughed at wasn’t the doo-doo, for there was none. What was in the diaper was the small tube of vaseline that my wife had been looking for back at our apartment and had given up on.:eek:
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Welcome to the club. Isn’t it wonderful what sleep deprivation can do to an otherwise healthy mind?
Please tell me that the tube was put there by your wife and not eaten by your daughter.
It may have been put there by the daughter. Kids put all kinds of stuff in thier clothes.
At 4.5 months, most kids don’t have the dexterity to put things in their diapers all by themselves… I’m blaming parents. 
Nooo, I have never ever changed my child and found something unexpected underneath them that might have ended up in their diaper. No indeedy. Nope. Never. And my child has never wiped poop on my skirt after shoving his hand down his diaper either. Nope.
Good thing I had singletons, or my kids would have had all sorts of things packed in their diapers by accident… (Goodness, where is that OED? I was using it as a changing station just a minute ago…)
But at that age, the stage they’re in does mess with the parental mind a LOT. See The Wonder Weeks (book) for specifics on the stages, very useful to know your insanity is normal, predictable even. You can even plan ahead for the next bout! (Twins tend to hit the stages about 2 weeks earlier, IME.)
Oh, but wait until they DO have the dexterity to secrete things about their own persons.
There was the time my 2-year-old daughter was examining a plant full of cute little yellow and green beetles while I was loading her brother into his carseat. When it was time to go home, Mommy just happened to glance back at the plant and noticed that all the beetles were mysteriously gone.
I knew enough by then to check her pockets.
As a twin, I feel I must step in and give a voice to twins who have gone on to have children of their own: Thank god I didn’t have twins.
What I get from this story is that your wife has lost her mind. Firstly, she’s misplacing stuff. Secondly, she’s letting you get away with handing her the kids when they’re poopy.
It’s no wonder she’s mindless – she’s got a husband who’s thoughtless.
Boy, did that come out bitchy. Sorry about that, that wasn’t my intent, not really. I just meant to point out that your story explained your wifes state of mind, but not necessarily your own. I’m sure you are doing more than your share, and are just as mindless as your wife.
Maybe whoever changed her last forgot to move the tube out of the diaper before closing it last time and when your wife changed her, voila it was still there ?
You’re almost there, Danalan.
eew.
Thanks for the book recommendation.
My girls started pulling at their diaper tapes, so we tried putting the diapers on backwards. Then they started pulling at each other’s diaper tapes. Now the diapers are on regularly again.
When we lay them down most often the first thing they do is hold hands. Now that’s the BEST.
When my kids started taking their diapers off (and ahem, having accidents in their cribs, as a result) I simply started putting the diapers on with duct tape for a week or so.
It really does work for everything, duct tape. Once the kid realized that diaper wasn’t coming off for anything, they quit taking it off, and that was that.
I love duct tape.
Mrs. Furthur
Wait a minute – just to clarify – it wasn’t the SAME diaper all week. I did change diapers regularly. And in fact, I didn’t duct tape the daytime diapers, just the night-time ones.
Phew. That was scary there for a second.
Mrs. Furthur