My Biggest Parenting Flop: The Great Diaper Blowout
Oh hello there, mamas! Come gather round for a little commiserate and chuckle over my most epic parenting fail to date. I’m still traumatized just thinking about it honestly! Buckle up, because we’re time hopping back to when my daughter Emma was just a tiny little newborn potato. Ah the golden naivety of first time parenthood…
See, all the baby books and mommy blogs prepare you for eventual projectile poops and diaper leaks. But nothing quite readies you for the traumatic reality that is an explosive baby blowout until you’ve lived through one! Especially not in the middle of the literal GAP…
It was a fateful Tuesday when I gleefully picked out Emma’s cutest hot pink romper for our very first shopping outing together. Popped my squeaky clean girl into the stroller and off we happily ventured into the mall for some retail therapy.
About 30 blissful minutes into casually browsing onesies, I suddenly heard poor Emma wailing at the top of her little lungs. I ran over to check on her and was immediately assaulted by the most ungodly stench imaginable. Think rotten eggs and curdled milk combined then multiplied by 1000. 🤢
Peeling back her swaddle, I realized to my utmost horror that Emma’s diaper had quite literally exploded. We’re talking full-on crime scene here – poop up the romper, down the stroller, pooling under on the floor. No diaper in sight either thanks to the forceful eruption. And Emma was still releasing more blowout ammunition by the minute! 💩
As I stood there gaping in shock covered head-to-toe in baby feces already, a poor store clerk ran over. She took one look at our biohazard zone before throwing up violently. Because apparently the smell was just that rancid. Awesome. 🙃
What transpired next was my own Walk of Atonement as I slowly wheeled the Very Leaky Baby and equally leaky stroller of shame back through the packed mall, leaving a trail of stench and destruction in my wake. Most mortifying 15 minutes of my life!
But 6 outfit changes, 3 showers, 5 trash bags and 1 traumatized retail store later…we now chuckle about Emma’s Infamous Volcano Bum disaster! Well, I can laugh about it exactly 2 years later at least. You should’ve seen the other mom’s reactions when I first told them the story looking completely shell-shocked!
So tell me fellow mamas – what’s your biggest parenting fail story? Share your cringiest mess tales below! Just please dear god nothing involving solids yet… Here My past post about Parenting meme by toddler
