Friday, 11 September 2009
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Booty Call: Men and Diapers
The phone call came when I was 10 minutes from home.
“When are you coming home?”
“I’m on my way now. Why?”
“Where are you?”
“I am going past the elevator; do you need me to get something?”
“No, Leo pooped and I wondered how long it would be before you came home.”
Click.
What is it with guys and poopy diapers? It isn’t like cow manure bothers him, or pig or horse or chicken manure, heck pig poop doesn’t even wash out! This man has had his arm (up to the armpit) in a cow’s rectum and he balks at changing diapers on his own flesh and blood? Sure he will do it, but only if there is no alternative.
In my seven years of researching poopy diapers, I have found three anomalies.
1. While my step-dad won’t go out of his way to change one of my kids, he has good-naturedly offered to watch the kids with the understanding that there was a good likelihood of a poopy diaper.
2. When Leo was about three-weeks-old we visited a friend. Leo pooped loudly, like three-week-old babies do. I got up to take him from my friend Don to change him when Don said, “That’s okay, I can change him.”
“Don, he pooped, I’ll get it.”
“No prob, I got it.”
And I sat there with my jaw in my lap and watched a guy I used to work with change a poopy diaper on my baby.
3. My college freshman (step) nephew offered to watch Leo when he was a baby. I was a little nervous leaving my six-month-old with my 228-month-old nephew, but Mom assured me he would be in good hands. We would be just across town at the ice-skating rink, so I could rescue either one if he needed it. Little did I know. When we went back to pick him up, Derek had not only changed his diaper a couple of times but he had fed him applesauce and his bottle then changed his outfit. (Leo was a puker by nature.) The poor kid barely had time for his nap (Leo not Derek)!
Quote of the Day: Men should always change diapers. It’s a very rewarding experience. It’s mentally cleansing. It’s like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.
- Chris Martin, Coldplay.
It sounds like that guy has some issues.
My husband did not get the diaper gene, however we have hammered out an unspoken deal. I handle poop and puke and he handles snakes. Thank God I am busier than he is. Does your guy change diapers?
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Comments (17)
Oh yes, more than me!
no, not unless he has to (i.e. I am away) and then he will. When I called him yesterday, he had to go because my youngest had just stuck her hand in her diaper and came up with poop....I didn't even feel badly about him having to change it! :)
my husband tries to get out of it when he can
Not usually. He claims that poopy diapers make him puke. Once when my daughter had a poopy diaper, after he handed her to me, he ran to the bathroom. I try to be understanding, but part of me wonders what he would do without me!
My husband will if he absolutely has to, but even when, at one point, we had 2 children in diapers, he probably changed 1 diaper a week, if I was lucky. It's just easier to do it myself than to ask/beg him to go do it. I don't mind changing the diapers, so I just do it. It's never worth a fight. I've heard my brother-in-law and sister-in-law argue over who's turn it is to change the baby's diaper. That always seemed silly to me, just change the darn thing.
Well, I missed out on my love's first babysitting event, and I've decided to forgive it because I understand it was for my benefit. I have spent the last 16 years working with children who are from abusive homes or disabled or very smart and sweet little girls with few quirks. So boys are different. There may be moments that I need my husband to know how to do things. Not that he's my husband, but I'm a girl and a capricorn- I think in terms of commitment or why date? I wish I could have been there. Also, I'm old school. I really like working with children, and prefer to be the one who is dealing with the kid stuff. I don't want to hog the glory, but I don't want him stealing my thunder. He can help because I trust him to do it well or I wouldn't even be entertaining the thought. I just rather he empties the diaper genie and let's me change the diapers. I'd just rather be the one to show him how to change a diaper etc. because I want to experience it with him.
My husband doesn't change poopy diapers. He threatens to gag every time. Telling him to man up doesn't work. Poor Giovanni--I'll come home from school and he'll have diaper rash from sitting in a poopy diaper for too long.
My hubby had paternity leave w/ my first daughter and he did diaper duty, w/ my 2nd I was like, "I don't think I've changed a newborn before" because my husband did it the 1st time around. He's really good about it too.
Haha, yeah my husband HATES it. He claims it makes him want to throw up. We BOTH hate changing diapers, but for different reasons...I hate it because I feel like I'm always wrestling with the babies' legs the whole time (they're squirmers) and he hates it because of the gross-factor. So most of the time I end up changing them...although he's pretty good about changing them if I ask nicely.
Well, I'm home more than he is, so I guess my response is "not often". We have two in diapers, and usually we each undress one kid pre-bath, so he sometimes gets hit with the poop. :) But it doesn't happen too often. He's relatively good about it, though.
my hubby has no issues changing diapers. With his line of work, it takes a lot to gross him out.
great post tho! Nice to have a funny read first thing in the morning.
My husband has only changed maybe 2 diapers. And our daughter is 15 months old! For a long time, when he gave her a bath, he'd make me take off the dirty one and put on the clean one. Then he got to the point where I only had to take off the dirty one and he'd put the clean one on. And now he's taken off a dirty one and put a clean one on! I'm proud. lol.
He changed her diaper once when no one was home cause she was poopy and wouldn't stop crying. And he'd rather have her diaper changed then hear her cry for another hour until someone got home. He didn't tell me about that for a long time because he thought I'd make him to do it all the time. Haha. But, I wouldn't do that to him. I know how he feels about diapers.
When my husband isn't at work he changes most of the diapers. In the end I still change more because I'm a SAHM but, I'd say we have a pretty fair split. We never have to argue over who is going to change it because we both realize it's going to have to happen and it's not a big deal. When our 9 month old son wakes up at night to breastfeed, hubby always changes his diaper before I feed him. He's done this since he was born. There is no reason in the current climate in American society that men should find diaper changing any less appealing than women do. Lazy? Dramaqueen? Immature? Ungrateful or unappreciative? Refusing to change your own childs diapers pretty much warrants a guy still being in them himself.
I"m sure my husband will be absolutely fine with it. He has always done more of the dirty housework than I have, such as picking up dog poop or cleaning the gunk out of the sink. Not that I don't do these things he's just a really clean, organized guy. I"m sure that whoever is around the baby when it explodes and isn't busy will be the one to change it. We may draw straws once or twice but I can't imagine him being the type of guy that would leave the kid sitting in its own fecal matter just to avoid changing it. I can see why you wouldn't want to change another person's kid but your own child? I'm pretty sure if he ever whined/complained about it I would just tell him to grow a pair.
I think it's such a cop-out for a man to be so interested in avoiding the action of changing his own child's diapers. A real man pulls his weight in ALL areas. Seriously, scared of baby poop? I would call any man who acted so adverse to changing a diaper...a sissy. xP
I guess I've got it pretty good! My fiance OFFERS to change the poopy diapers. haha He can't handle the pee ones, (He doesn't do good with the smell!) But there's been some pretty bad blow outs and he's the one offering to clean our angel up and bathe her, the whole nine yards! :)
Fill up the landfills and overpopulate the world. Selfish people.