Poo obsession ( do not look at the links while eating, you have been warned)

Being a Nurse and a little poo obsessed anyway I find it hard to work out when this stepped up, and moved into the full flung mum poo obsessio .

What is it that makes us mums suddenly become so fascinated with poo from the second our baby emerges into the world, and even before that (for those of us that were unfortunate enough to suffer with constipation in pregnancy).

Its horrible suffering with anaemia and feeling exhausted all the time, but the bunging up side effects of a high dose of iron can suck just as much. Being a big bloated elephant woman with a big baby taking up all the space inside becomes a joke when poo joins the battle over the very limited space in ones tummy.

Then we have the other extreme of the runs, which I had the pleasure of in two of my pregnancies. You can't help but worry when you are pregnant and pooping for England.

When baby arrives most of us get a warning in advance from a friendly Midwife or one of the multitude of pregnancy books, that those first few poops will look a little odd ( gross is a more appropriate word). Meconium is the name of that foul sticky and black introduction that we all get to motherhood. What an amazingly lovely welcome to the world of being a mum, as if pregnancy and birth are not bad enough, the fates have decided that adding disgusting blurgh to our lives for a few days is a great idea.

I don't know why they use a posh word like Meconium when they could cut to the point and call it tar, Its exactly the same texture and amount of stickiness, with the only difference being that the stuff that comes out of a babies butt has a stench like nothing else. Maybe they could scoop all the new born poop up and be environmentally friendly by then recycling it to tar the roads and to fill in the potholes of the world.

Learning the skill of nappy changing and not covering oneself in wee or poo while doing it is hard enough. So why add to this challenging task poo that takes an industrial power cleaner to remove. Plastering that stuff over a delicate and fragile new bum is just one step too far against us poor old mums.

Once things begin to settle you would think we would be able to stop the focus on poo, but sadly this is just the start............

http://www.babycenter.com/baby-poop-photos

http://similac.com/feeding-nutrition/diaper-decoder