Hey, do you remember that saying?! It just came to me this morning. Not long after A asked me, for some reason, if I remembered the Monchichis. And now I’m going to have their theme song in my head all day!
Anyway. Back to the topic at hand. When Gatito was a newborn, I watched in disgust as one of my new friends wiped her toddler’s runny nose with her bare hand and wiped it on her own pants. Gah. But we all have our own things. I remember reading a book just before he was born that talked about baby acne and warned not to pick your baby’s pimples. I thought, ewww, who would do such a thing? But sure enough, when Gatito had a blemish, it was unbelievably tempting to pick at it! (I refrained.)
I focus my grody activity on his ears, which are really, really waxy. So waxy that when the ped put a thermometer in his ear, she had to pull it out, remove the wax, and try again in order to get his temperature. I know, q-tips are dangerous, wax dries and works its own way out, blah blah blah, but I still dig for wax in his ears with my pinky!
I told you mine, now you tell me yours!
I’ve got some! Her food – I make Pumpkin’s baby food myself and if it gets on my hands when I’m feeding her, I just lick it off. At least I know it tastes good! Also, if I don’t have a burp cloth handy, I’ll just wipe her drool off her face with my hand and onto my pants. But not her nose – eww.
I’ve got some! Her food – I make Pumpkin’s baby food myself and if it gets on my hands when I’m feeding her, I just lick it off. At least I know it tastes good! Also, if I don’t have a burp cloth handy, I’ll just wipe her drool off her face with my hand and onto my pants. But not her nose – eww.
You so don’t want to know. I think the worst one is that I let her chew on the diaper creme tube so she won’t scream on the table.
I’m maniacal about cleaning Brody’s belly button. It’s so gross, it’s like a little cheese factory.
it’s a shame i won’t have any stories to share, but i’m just so lucky that milo will be inherently clean and free of any run-off all the time.
You don’t want to know. Has to do with the nose. But I also do the ear thing with my pinky…mostly because his reflux is still so very bad, and if he spits up while lying down, it sometimes goes in his ear (gross!) and I’m really anal about getting in there to make sure to clean up the crusties.
Nasty.
You don’t want to know. Has to do with the nose. But I also do the ear thing with my pinky…mostly because his reflux is still so very bad, and if he spits up while lying down, it sometimes goes in his ear (gross!) and I’m really anal about getting in there to make sure to clean up the crusties.
Nasty.
oh i am so guilty of the pinky-wax bit, the wipe snot with my hand and wipe it on my pants and i have been known to use my pinky to get the crusty green boogers. yep, i’m gross.
I’ll wipe snot with my hand if nothing else is handy.
Also, M spit up voluminously after every feeding for the first six months of her life. Now I’m so desensitized to vomit that when M came down with a stomach bug a few weeks ago and puked all over me after a midnight feeding, I went back to sleep after barely swabbing myself with a receiving blanket.
My pinky goes excavating all the time. What’s really gross is this morning I woke up and saw a green dried up Monkey booger on my bedsheet. And I left it there.
My pinky goes excavating all the time. What’s really gross is this morning I woke up and saw a green dried up Monkey booger on my bedsheet. And I left it there.
I would get boogers out of my son’s nose with my pinky when breastfeeding. And I’m also terror on ear wax, but I use q-tips, carefully. He’s a waxy kinda boy, and I canNOT ignore it.
wow. I am guilty of the ear wax picking, booger-wiping, crusty booger-picking, eye-booger-picking…
yeah, I’m just nasty…