Yogurt Baby...Not for the weaker stomachs...

I ‘m sharing my messy moment for the chance to win prizes from TidyMom as part of Clorox’s Bleach It Away campaign . 

My son is a very picky eater.  After a friend told me her son LOVED yogurt, I thought I'd give it a try.  My son was about the age where we were just switching to cow’s milk, so I thought he'd be able to stomach a yogurt.  He gulped it up and LOVED it!  

An hour later we were on our way to some apartment showings in another town and soon my son started getting cranky.  Sure enough, that yogurt didn't stay in his tummy and launched it all over himself and car seat.   Luckily, I had brought another pair of clothes so in our small back seat I cleaned him up and changed his clothes. He seemed fine and happy so we thought we’d do our last showing.  Not long after we started he started screaming and then BAM!  This time he threw up all over his new outfit...and I was out of clothes.  We just bundled him up with his onesie that wasn't too badly thrown up on, buckled him up and started heading home.  Right before we hit the freeway entrance we heard a loud explosion from down under...tagged along with yet another vomiting noise.  We headed to the nearest gas station to clean up what we could. 

My son was in pretty bad shape so instead of dripping his waste and vomit into a public place, I decided I would just clean him up again in the back seat.  I didn't know the magnitude of our mess until I pulled off his newly browned onesie.  I typically have a strong stomach when it comes to fecal matter and vomit, but my poor little boy was COVERED and I couldn’t handle it.  Here we were, with a stark naked baby and a pile of wipes on the ground.  My loving husband tried to help but has a weaker stomach than most and he started gagging and dry heaving.  I quickly joined in and had to take a step away to get air, hold my breath, clean my screaming baby, gag, and start over.  I am sure that the people watching got quite the show, watching two adults trying to clean a baby. What a sight!

 Needless to say, we had quite the mess in our back seat!  After all was out of our sons system, we headed home with our car of puke and other bodily waste.  When we got home, all clothes and car seat cover was tossed in the washer.  We bleached the car seat and sanitized everything that was contaminated.  Our car got a nice scrub down and a new air freshener! 

Whew! What a mess!  We did wait for a couple more weeks to try yogurt again and did it in smaller portions!  He loves yogurt now.  But it sure did teach me a lot as a first time mommy!