{"id":378,"date":"2010-10-19T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2010\/10\/brillo-pads-and-baby-boys\/"},"modified":"2015-01-11T17:15:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T22:15:06","slug":"brillo-pads-and-baby-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2010\/10\/brillo-pads-and-baby-boys.html","title":{"rendered":"Brillo Pads and Baby Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Last night, I changed a diaper.<\/p>\n<p>This diaper change was different than the countless diapers I\u2019ve changed over the last five years. This diaper change was\u2026well\u2026disconcerting.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family had warned me that sometimes, when you change a baby boy\u2019s diaper, his tiny little boy part gets a tiny little\u2026er\u2026bounce in it\u2019s step. It\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t believe them, it\u2019s just that I tried not to think about it. And since it had not happened to me, it was easy to not think about.<\/p>\n<p>And then, last night, I unwrapped my son and cleaned him off before noticing that his nether region looked\u2026strange. But I couldn\u2019t figure out what was going on with it. So I poked it.<\/p>\n<p>Liam smiled and gurgled and all at once I realized what had just happened, and I quickly diapered him and shoved him into the Ogre\u2019s arms and ran to the bathroom to scrub my hands and my memory with a brillo pad.<\/p>\n<p>Much to my chagrin, brillo pads don\u2019t work on memories.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I changed a diaper. This diaper change was different than the countless diapers I\u2019ve changed over the last five years. This diaper change was\u2026well\u2026disconcerting. Friends and family had warned me that sometimes, when you change a baby boy\u2019s diaper, his tiny little boy part gets a tiny little\u2026er\u2026bounce in it\u2019s step. 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