It's 2:30 in the morning and I just spent the last 20 minutes with my nearly-asleep son on my lap praying that he wasn't going to pee and soak us both and we'd have to start all over with the falling asleep thing.
Why, you may ask, was your child not wearing a diaper if you were trying to get him to fall asleep? This seems like rather poor planning on your part. Here's the part where we have to backstory...
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Until recently, Little Cutie (my just-turned three year old daughter) could be wet and poopy for seven days and seven nights and really wouldn't care as long as it didn't leak on to her Tinkerbell jammies. To say that Little Dude does not like to be wet, on the other hand, is an understatement. He has this cry that says"HELP! HELP! I'M DAMP! I'M REALLY REALLY DAMP! THREE DROPS OF PEE-PEE CAME OUT OF MY WEE-WEE AND NOW I'M DAMP!!! IF SOMETHING ISN'T DONE ABOUT THIS SOON, THERE IS GOING TO BE CHAFING AND OMG I AM STILL DAMP!!!!!!!"
Seriously.
The kid has never had a diaper rash, yet sometimes I can't even tell that his diaper is wet at all, but still he is screaming and as soon as I take the diaper off, he's quiet. It's like magic. If it were up to him, he just wouldn't wear a diaper and would spend all day kicking himself, um, yeah... that may be a different post.
Now when he's sleeping, there's this little whimper that lets me know that he's wet himself and not happy with the dampness and as long as I can get that nasty diaper off before he full-out cries, then he will stay asleep through the whole process.
And that's where we were this evening when he was just about asleep and started in on the whimper. And I knew if I got up to change him, he would wake up. But if I left him in the wet diaper he'd wake up. So I removed the diaper and prayed for dryness. Luckily, our story has a happy ending and I even get to go to sleep before 3 am.
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