I am pretty confident in my mom-hood. I think I have good intuition, decent patience, and can almost always come up with an answer to a question (they aren't savvy enough to know when mom is conning them). When it's hungry, you feed it, when it needs cuddles, you cuddle it, when it throws-up you clean it up (then wash your hands), when it poops you change it, or wipe it, if you have a daughter that sits on the potty gagging because she is too grossed-out to do it herself, Lucky Me. However............When it poops in the bathtub, I'm stumped! I'll admit it, I sat there staring at the, we'll, call it Baby Ruth for Caddyshack fans, posing these questions. Do you?
A. Drain the water hoping it dissolves and mostly goes down the drain? No, what if it plugs the drain, then you've got bigger problems
B. Fish it out with some sort of wooden/plastic spoon? Admittedly, I just came up with this idea
C. Grab at it with toilet paper? No, given that it is designed to fall apart in water
D. Ignore it until your husband, who is less likely to gag, comes home and make him do it? Tempting, but very gross
So, I went with a revised version of C and used Paper Towels, hey, it's the quicker-picker-upper, but then I was faced with the dilemma of not being able to flush it down the toilet because Paper Towels are very likely (especially lots of them wrapped around a Baby Ruth) to plug the toilet. Then I would be faced with involving the above mentioned husband since we don't own a plunger. Only a snake will do for the contractor types. Instead I made a drippy mad-dash to the outside garbage.
After thinking this through, I have decided that the correct answer is B. We have a throw-up bowl and now we'll have a poop spoon too!
3 comments:
We had one of those incidents at our house too a little while back. I was option A, and drained the whole tub, and then had to fish it out, but used a paper towel. No matter what it's still gross. I'd wipe his rear end any day of fishing poo out of the tub. :)
Ziploc baggies do wonders - and they zip up tight :) Use them for poop or throw up or whatever. :)
I would have used the throw up bowl to scoop it out, then flush away.
i thought we fixed this problem years ago? I remember a 1 year old Isabel saying "No poopies in the bathtub" every time she had a bath.
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