Sunday is not over yet, but I am blogging now because everyone but Clarissa and I are at church, and in the evenings I don’t have access to my computer because Lydia and Mary listen to audiobooks from it. If I don’t blog now, I fear I will get behind yet again and have to do yet another full week back-log next weekend.
Not much has happened today, except that Clarissa had an epic poop. This blow-out was like nothing Abe had ever seen. The poop went from her ankles to her shoulders, and her diaper looked like Hurricane Harvey had hit it. Sadly, she was wearing a paper diaper, and so the poop got everywhere. Cloth diapers prevent these types of blow outs, but I think Abe has learned a lot from this experience. I personally have switched to only cloth diapers because I hate having to deal with blow-outs. I think Abe is going to start doing that too after this.
Newborns are supposed to poop five to seven times a day. Clarissa poops once a day, but she packs it all into that one event. Usually her poop is preceded by hours of grunting, and after her poop she is so exhausted she sleeps for hours. Sometimes the event is so explosive that it scares her, she screams, and then she falls asleep. Today she just fell asleep and it smeared all over her Mamaroo while Abe was in the shower.
I slept through it all because I was up with Clarissa all night. She started grunting at 12:30, and she did not go back to sleep until after 4am. Abe and my mom worked so hard this morning as I caught up on sleep before church. I am so grateful!