Though he's much more tolerant of it now, Tyler was absolutely incapable of being in a dirty diaper for more than a minute for the first three months of his young life. This applied to both Number One and Number Two. He would get really fussy and nothing could get him to calm down until we had changed his diaper, at which point all would be well again. In fact, his record of number of diapers used in one day is 26. 26! Thank goodness for cloth diapers!
My husband and I originally thought this fussiness about being in a dirty diaper was only in cloth diapers only to find out quickly that it also extended to disposables. Just ask my lactation consultant and some of my mommy girlfriends. Tyler once went through three disposables in less than two hours. Only after he was clean and changed could he resume nursing and being his little baby self again.
My grandmother had tried on a number of occasions to get us to not change his diaper so frequently, all of which resulted in uncontrollable crying and fussiness for about 10 minutes before she would give up and tell us to change his diaper. At first, she teased Tyler about his cleanliness by saying that only girls are fussy about having a clean diaper and that it is okay for boys to sit in a dirty diaper all day long. After a few weeks of this, my grandmother loudly proclaimed (while I was changing Tyler's diaper):
"Your son must really be a girl because seriously speaking, only girls are that fussy about being in a clean diaper. You really shouldn't change his diaper so often."
Yeah... I just didn't know how to respond to that one...
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