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Poop! Its just recycled food
As a parent I’m sure you don’t think much of it at the time but for an outsider listening in I’m sure it sounds like poop is a major daily conversation. Poop is what makes the world go round during those first few years of your kid’s life. The conversation starts out like: “did the baby poop?” “How many times?”, “Color?”, “Consistency?”, “When was the last time the baby pooped?”, “It is your turn to change the poopy” , and my favorite “Yah, you went poopy on the potty!”. Part of the necessity to talk about the poop is because you can really learn a lot about the health of your child based on details of the poo. Still, when you think about the evolution of your relationship with your spouse did you ever think when you were dating that you would be having daily conversations about bowel movements?
I realize that this poop topic is primarily a phenomenon primarily experienced by parents which is why I understand why my girlfriend Brooke used to call me periodically to hear about the latest poop story. She found my day to day life as a mom rather entertaining and especially the poo stories. (I doubt she finds poop nearly as funny now that she has a 5 month old.) I remember telling her once about my daughter and how every time I would lay her in a nice warm bath suddenly she would be surrounded by several little poop land mines. Brooke would laugh hysterically at this and proceed to tell her husband. I could hear her husband gagging and dry heaving in the background, apparently just the thought of this was enough to gross him out. Brooke then asked me “how does this not gross you out?” I told her “I don’t really think about it. I get in there, clean it up and everyone is happier for it. Poop is just recycled food.”
It’s a privilege to join the ranks of mom and dad and maybe one of those perks is the ability to talk about poop without snickers and judgment. I only wish that as part of the enlistment process someone would hand out our poop protection shields and the all important poop decoder ring.