Phone A Mommy

I saw this few years ago, and it's shown up on a lot of mothering and cloth diapering web sites, but I thought I'd post it here and all the mommies on this site can read it and see for themselves.

It's an article from Live Science which did a study back in 2006 about mothers and the smell of baby poop. They found that nearly ALL of the moms they studied were either (A) NOT bothered by the smell of their baby's poopy diaper, or (B) they were LESS bothered by the smell when compaired to the smell of other babies, which were not their own.

This study really hits home for me, because when I was growing up, I was a keen observer of mommies and babies, and I knew sevral moms who actually enjoyed the smell of their baby's poop. One mom had a baby girl. and every time they were at our house, and her daughter messed her pants, this mom always made an effort to sniff as much of the aroma as she could. I vividly remember this. She would sniff around the girls bottom, then she would pull back the top of the diaper and sniff some more, almost sticking her nose down into the diaper as she checked for poop. (That she, and everyone in the room, already knew was there. ) Then she took her time changing her baby, again, deeping sniffing and inhaling the aroma, and smiling this big smile. In fact, when I always watched her change her daughter's poopy diaper, the look on her face was that of someone smelling a flower. Total bliss. I will never forget her facial expression and smile as she wiped her daughter's messy bottom, and the smell of poop filled our living room.

And now this study seems to support what I observed growing up around mommies and babies. Enjoy.


http://www.livescience.com/health/060712_baby_poop.html

my baby's poop dont stink duhhh! every mommy feels that way.

Unfortunately it's not always like that. I have seen moms who gag when their baby poops and can't change the diaper themselves. So it's not with all moms but with most I would say.

Liz

For the most part mommies can handle about anything but some of the diapers i have have seen would gag a maggot. so bravo to any diaper changers for they don't always know what kind of messes baby has created.

I've seen things much worse than a poppy diaper so most of the time it is no problem at all. It's not like baby can help it, I would never get angry over it (except for when playing w/ab babies)

It's just poop. My sister has a terrible time changing her baby girl's diaper when there is poop involved and she feels badly about it. She never says anything mean or anything like that, she praises her little girl on what a good job she did and all that. But she has told me that it almost makes her ill to do it, but it must be done so she does them as quickly as possible.

Sue

Ya know, I don't think it's so much that the smell of poop is wondrous or anything (because lets face it - it's not), I just think that a mom knows that it has to be taken care of and quickly (the quicker the better). So she talks and coos to baby to make the process go more smoothly and to cut down on the squirming (which can lead to an even bigger mess, hehe).

I believe that yelling and/or scolding just adds to the tension level, and will make future changings more difficult, so why make it make a not-so-pleasant situation even worse?

And indeed, there are moms out there that simply can't take the smell of poop - just like there are people out there that can't listen to someone puke, lest they puke themselves.

Mommy Gina

Those poopie diapers are just what they are...don't really bother me....but sometimes the messy poopie diapers that are up the back well....shower time...much easier and safer...for clean up time...Rachel