As a quick reminder, Lily wears cloth diapers. So when she goes #2, we dump them in the toilet, rinse it with our diaper sprayer Jay made, and wash the diapers.
I had just gotten off the phone with my dad, and Lily woke from her nap. I walked in her room and almost passed out from the stink from her diaper. I should have known it would be stinky after beef and broccoli night. Of course, she is all smiles and happy to see someone.
So I changed her diaper, got her all cleaned up, and went to "process" the diaper. I dumped it, rinsed it, and was throwing something away before I flushed, and I saw something stranger than the poop in the toilet. It looked like a worm.
I didn't know what to do. I'm thinking it must be a tapeworm because she weighs all of 18 lbs and eats like a grown up. It would all add up! And this thing was separate from the rest of the poop. It was longer than my finger, and flat.
Now, when we feed Lily, I cut up some food, like steak because she can't tear into it with her gums and 2 teeth. Chicken she mows through. Since we had beef and broccoli, I cut up the food. So I'm thinking about this, wondering what could it be and what should I do. Jason is out of town, and I (a hypochondriac) have to make the decision if Lily has a parasite or what.
And I did it. I fished some weird poop out of the toilet. And it stunk. But what do you do with it? I mean, its POOP! Its not like I have some special container for gross stuff that comes out of my child's pooper. And she's pooped out weird stuff, like whole raisins and a gum wrapper with gum in it. I decided to lay it on the bowl, shut the bathroom door so the cat doesn't get it, and figure out what to do with it while I bleach my hands.
Meanwhile, Dad calls back and I tell him I think Lily pooped out a worm. He tells me to keep it and to keep it wet. So I grabbed a baby food container, filled it with water, and flung it in there. And bleached the area. I didn't tell Jason about it right away. I wanted him to hurry home but having some butt specimen floating in water in a jar for him to investigate would put a hitch in his getty-up. I waited for him to come home.
I showed my parents on Skype, and when Jason came home a day later, he told me what it was: an onion. She didn't chew it but swallowed it whole. I fished out a poopy onion. But I did it for my baby. To save her life from the parasite that COULD have been growing inside her.
I am truly a mom. And it does require bleach.
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