Lesson Learned

This morning we had to take Maddox in for an unscheduled doctors appointment. We had noticed throughout the night on Friday that he had not been having his very predictable brown messes in his diaper. We called the nurse help line at the hospital and they told us that we needed to bring him in first thing in the morning because there may be something more severe going on. So after 19 hours without the poopy diaper, we took him in to see the doc.

I parked the car in our Reserved parking spot in the ramp (because we have been there so many times) and proceeded to get Maddox ready to go inside. Jokingly I told Jenn, "Watch, we're going to get inside and he is going to have a blowout in his pants."

We checked in at the front desk and had a seat in the waiting room. It was creepy quite with only a couple of others waiting, so it set the scene perfectly. We had only been waiting for about 1 minute when it happened. Maddox crossed his eyebrows, looked at me, grunted and very loudly filled his diaper.

The nurse called us back into the exam room and we explained our situation. We stripped him down to his diaper and whisked him out to the scale. As I proceeded to take off his diaper, I noticed a definite brown mess. I cleaned him up and put on a clean diaper. The nurse put him on the scale and he weighed a good 11lbs, and then we went back into the exam room.

The doctor came in and started laughing. She looked him over and said that everything was normal and he is a healthy baby. She reassured us that he is probably just hitting his growth spurt and is absorbing all of the nutrients he is getting from the milk. Absorption + Growth = No Poop.

So, throughout this no poop adventure, we have learned that if you suspect there is something wrong with your baby, all you have to do is go sit in the waiting room of the doctors office and they miraculously cure themselves...........