Here's what NOT to feed a kid with HD...

Michaela: no accidents! But she's had Montezuma's Revenge since Sunday morning...

Maeve: 1

Alasdair: 3

Yogurt from Safeway that expired on December 20!!! Seriously, I bought some YoBaby yogurt at Safeway on Saturday evening, and my two littlest ones each had one on Sunday morning. I just happen to notice later around lunchtime that the date on it was from before Christmas. That is so freaking nasty. So my husband took it back to the store today, asked for a manager and told them about the gross expired yogurt, and also threw in the fact that it gave both of my kids diarrhea. Yay. Hirschsprung's and diarrhea DO NOT MIX. So now Doodie's got a huge red rash on his butt and his balls. It was so bad this afternoon that he wouldn't let me even pick him up. He would put himself in a pike position so that he wasn't sitting on my arm with his rear. So we loaded him up with the trusty Ilex and vaseline miracle cream, gave him some Motrin and let him lay down and sleep for an hour or so. He seems to be in less pain now.

There SO needs to be a book on HD and the diaper rash involved with it. Because even if kids are really healthy after their pull-through operations like Alasdair has been, we still deal with the rash. There's just no getting around it. Maybre someday when the kids are in college i'll get around to writing that book...

My whole house smells like poop

Michaela: no accidents
Maeve: 2
Alasdair: 5

I swear everytime I walk into the living room it just stinks like poop. Maybe it's just some sort of weird olfactory imprinting; I just know that when I'm home or in the car there's poop lurking about somewhere.

And dude sat in a poopy diaper for over an hour last night (thanks DH!) and his butt was on FIRE. He wouldn't even sit down in the bathtub and I couldn't hold him under his bum. I had to squeeze his legs instead. But a good frosting of the Desitin seemed to do the trick. In just an hour or so after the initial finding of the burn, it seemed to have already gotten better. Poor baby. I can't imagine having a rash like that on my bum.