Thursday, January 21, 2010

Natural Yogurt and Weetabix

I was a doofus last night. I went to town to meet up with a friend for coffee. Yes, I brought a bottle of sterile water, but no, I failed to bring FORMULA! Ugh! And I only brought one jar of food. But the beauty of Jake growing up, is that he can start eating people food now. So I bought a pear cinnamon muffin and let him have crumbly bits (cringe for the sugar, I know). But I figured that wouldn't be enough to get him home, so we grabbed some Yoplait natural yogurt (full fat milk, low sugar content) and a package of Weetabix (kind of like Shredded Wheat, but flaky and turns to mush really easily... great for babies). On the LUAS home, I cracked open both packages, crushed some Weetabix into the yogurt and started feeding the baby.

Not long after I noticed a smell wafting up from the baby. Ugh! Jake! Again! We had JUST changed his nappy (I'm in Ireland now so I use nappy instead of diaper). The whole way home, I'm feeding Jake and smelling his nasty poo. I was really nervous it'd leak out of his nappy, but as this was a metro full enough of people who wouldn't want to witness a Jake Toxic Poo (JTP). So there was not much I could do but hope the JTP wouldn't leak and we'd make it home to change him before disaster struck.

We're about 3/4's of the way home when Jake has had enough yogurt, so I pass the pot over to Rob. Jake's starting to get snarky (closin in on bed time) so I start tickling him to make him giggle. As I'm doing that, Rob says, 'Jen, are you sure you didn't smell this?' and he holds up the pot of yogurt. I take it back and lean over for a big sniff. Sure enough, I got a nosefull of JTP! Apparently JTP's smell exactly like natural yogurt! Who knew!

I remember watching a Brainiac episode a few years ago where blindfolded mother's identified their babies stinky nappies by smell only. I totally understand that now that I'm a mom. But I didn't expect his poo to smell like a real food!

So any one else out there have a baby with foody smelling poo? Just curious.

5 comments:

  1. hahaha, Garrett's breastfed poo smells like old buttered popcorn. It is a bit smellier now that he has some solids but not really that bad.

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  2. i only found yr blog cos i was searchin 4 hints on y my babys poo smells like yoghurt! 9 wks, breastfed - no yoplait (yum) but still smels of it!

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  3. Yea, it's amazing what baby poo can smell like! I've learned that baby poo can change from diaper to diaper, so I don't worry unless it's streaked red (which hasn't happened, so I haven't freaked). Oh, and if you feed your baby bananas, expect some tiny little black bits in the poo. Freaky.

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  4. Loïe's poo smells like microwave buttered popcorn, too!! I read that in a book somewhere, and thought, "no way." But it really does! Only when she hasn't had much "people food," though...

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  5. Ahhh, I agree Marisa. Jake's poo went back to smelling like yogurt and weetabix two days ago... must not have had enough people food that day!

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