Scatologist

I know that you have all seen the rather cute list of "jobs" that mothers do, things like...

nurse, taxi driver, chef, personal assistant, organizer, CFO, psychologist, etc..

They are all very true. However, I discovered one job that never makes the list, probably because it is not as "cute" as some other jobs.

Scatologist

I have had to add that to my resume this week. Let me tell you why...

B-man swallowed a little metal ball. The kind that are in the sets where you connect magnetic poles to balls and create different designs. It is a very cool toy and up until now we have had no problems. I guess there is a first time for everything.

B-man must have been experimenting. He's old enough to know better. Somehow one of those balls made it into his mouth, and before he knew it he had swallowed it. Q was watching him (it totally could have happened to me) and noticed he was acting like a cat with a hairball in its throat. They both got a little nervous about him swallowing a foreign item.

I was home only minutes later. Luckily we have several family doctors, and I was able to reach M's grandfather. He said that he will be fine, but that I needed to have him poop in a pot and make sure that it came out...

Hmmm, that really didn't sound fun. Although I was glad that I didn't have to go to the emergency room. After much thought I decided that I just couldn't do the pot thing. So instead we put Benjamin on alert. He used the toilet as usual and then I had to swoop in and be the mom.

Sometimes I wish I had another person around to give jobs like this to. I improvised a method to keep my hand clean by using a plastic grocery sack. I won't go into specifics, but after a very timid first try, I found a technique that worked well with minimum (how should I say this...) handling.

The first two days we had nothing. I was a little nervous that being so timid the first time I had missed the ball, and now I would never know if came out or not. But happily on day two we found the ball! B-man and I were very excited! We were so excited to be rid of foreign objects, and to be done with scatology, at least for a little while.

This is why I am worried. I think it's been too long since I had to change a diaper. For some reason this felt SO much different than changing a baby's bum, but I'm not really sure that it is...