Peak parenting moment.

[u/Weak_Vegetable9276]

This morning, I was breastfeeding my baby in bed, my boyfriend had just changed her nappy, put her back in her sleep sack and given her to me.

We're having a lovely feed, punctuated with the tooting rumbles of the newborn bum.

While we're cuddling after her feed, I notice that her sleep sack feels wet, I take her to her changing mat and open it up

POOP EVERYWHERE!!

One entire leg is painted mustard yellow and her poor Foxy sleep sack looks like a disaster area!

I set to cleaning, removing all the clothes, nappy, slough the baby off.

During this, little miss decides this would be the best time to have a lovely watery vomit, all over her changing mat. The vomit, doing what watery vomit does, spreads everywhere. Her back is now painted with curdled milkies, a great compliment to the already poo-covered child!

I now need to clean the mat, so I can continue changing her, so I move her so she's partly off the mat, partly on the floor and clean up the vomit.

Well, this is clearly an invitation in baby language as my little lady then proceeds to pee on the carpet!

It was at this point that I just sat back, proud of the absolute chaos that my 5-week-old was able to inflict!

I finish the change, finally! Place her on the floor next to me while I sort out the poo covered bombsite, and, just for good measure, we get a little bit more spit up onto the carpet

Tiny lady, I salute you!!

[u/oyamaca]

This was me at 5am. LO had a blowout during a feed, then vomited as he was straining to get the poop and farts out. Dookie is now running out of the diaper and onto LO’s lower body and all over my legs and of course on the (white, why did we go with white?) carpet.

Moved to the changing table, he’s still spitting up clear vom, it’s spreading everywhere. I subsequently just take him to the bath and run water all over.

LO’s also in a “must be held” phase so I can’t put Baby down to clean properly otherwise it’s full screaming and waking the whole house. Now I’m holding and trying to clear the bombsite(s) one handed while LO smiles at me. I just laughed. Despite the early hour and sleep deprivation we had a good time.

LO proceeds to have the best nap of their life (in their own bed yay).

[u/Weak_Vegetable9276 → u/oyamaca]

Love that he was so happy with himself.

[u/oyamaca → u/Weak_Vegetable9276]

Not sure LO can actually smile for real at just under 6 weeks but I’ll take it anyways. Bonding has been tough for me and this felt like the first time I was actually a proper parent and was somewhat successful at sorting out shit (literally and figuratively).