Green poos & spam

The antibiotics are definitely a contributing factor, but it's possible Braeden might be teething as well. (The rustling sound you hear is my nipples packing & preparing to leave home)

Every now and again he gets a whitish mark on his front upper gum, then it disappears again. He's been drooling quite a bit, and definitely grouchy and in need of extra cuddles. Then today when we were out grocery shopping, he waited until I had the trolley half full then did spectacular things in his nappy.

Oh yeah.. the first time I go shopping with kidlet solo, he makes major smelly whoopee then makes with the air raid siren because his cruel heartless mother failed to instantly drop and uncover (ie change him there and then, then follow up with a feed).

For some strange reason I had a feeling that the supermarket might have something to say if I'd changed his naps in the tinned fruit aisle, and they might even have baulked at me sitting crosslegged on the floor and unbuttoning my shirt.

Bloody unreasonable of them, but there you have it ;-)

So it took another 15 minutes to finish the shopping, get through the checkouts, and get the car loaded so that I could grab the nappy bag and come back to the toilets to change now absolutely hysterical kidlet.

And oh! What a delight awaited me within.

Green poos. Lots of. Everywhere.

(Made mental note to not 100% trust that brand of disposable again)

Once baby (and mother!) were all cleaned up, there only remained the matter of soothing crying kidlet with a good feed and snuggle.

Except.. where the hell do you manage this in the Rolleston shopping centre? At least there's a baby changing table in the toilets, but there is absolutely nowhere you can sit and feed your child. Even feeding in your car is damn awkward because there's nowhere you can find privacy or shade. I resorted to *hiding* (for purposes of shade!) next to the toilet block at the local park, causing a patrolling policeman to give me a second glance as he did his rounds.

Hey, my kid's hungry, so don't even think about giving me any of your "allo allo allo" banter!

Anyhoo.. #1 Grandma reliably informs me we take up the entire front page of the Christchurch Star today, with the picture taking up half the article. (gulp)

It sounds a lot like what we said when interviewed, so colour me impressed!

Now to pluck up the courage to look at the picture in the hopes that I won't utterly hate it and want to throw myself off the nearest speed bump.