Oh Crap....Literally

Today, was a good day.  We got to experience an awesome first with Madison.  Although it was in a hospital setting, with a nurse helping a little.  WE GOT TO GIVE MADISON A BATH!!  She was still hooked up to her oxygen, and we needed some hints and encouragement from the nurse.  So we didn't get to try and figure it out on our own.  But in a way that's when being in the NICU is a blessing.  We are learning how to take care of Madison with nurses by our sides.   So when we get home, all we'll have to do is, pull up the advice from the nurses, and hope we don't mess it up too badly.

This evening, the nurse came into the room, and asked if we still wanted to give her a bath.  Uh duh! Of course we did.  So off she went to find a bath tub.  When she came back, she had a large Tupperware container.  I chuckled we get to bathe her in Tupperware!  Because she is so small we had to do a swaddle bath.  Which is exactly what it sounds like.  We wrap her in a blanket and put her in the water.  She stays in the blanket, and we uncover her to wash and then cover her back up.  It keeps her warm, and feeling secure.

Everything was going well, I had her little toes and legs washed.  She has a label taped to her leg with her  information on it.  It was time for a new one, so the nurse went to find some baby oil to get it off.  While she was gone, I was trying to keep Madisons' binky in her mouth.  And then I looked down towards her feet, and realized to my HORROR she had pooped in the bath!  Now poop from a baby that is breast fed, is a little different.  It is yellow, and kinda seedy, and floats.  So it got EVERYWHERE!  Tyler and I were laughing so hard.  It was gross, but so funny.  So being mom, I stuck my hands in the water to lift my baby up a little so that she wouldn't get it in her face.

In one night we had two first.  A bath, and a poop in the bath.  Even though they happened in the hospital it was a great memory, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.