Saturday, February 20, 2010
blind leading the lame.
me: i think we should get one of those tiny clothes washing machines that hook up to the sink. for many reasons, but partially because there's about to be a bunch of tiny baby clothes, and we're terrible at taking the laundry into the next building more often than once a month.
monkey: herm frumph yes but maybe ?
me: ?
monkey: we're going to wash diapers in there, right? and there'll be poop on them. which will get mixed with water and soap and then drain into the sink.
me: maybe it can drain into the toilet. or maybe we can just wash the sink after.
monkey: it's not about the sink. it's just, if it takes awhile to drain, i'm afraid the apartment is going to smell like poop water.
of all the things i think this apartment might smell like once the baby is here, including actual, unwatered poop, laundry wash water seems like not a big deal. i forget that the monkey has never diapered another person, and doesn't quite understand the workflow of what happens to the the cloth diaper and the poop inside it after it's removed from a baby butt. fair enough; it's not like it's really intuitive. my mom was just telling me that when i came home from the hospital after three weeks in what i think they did not yet call the NICU, she followed the routines the nurses used: automatic diaper changes before and after every feeding. she went through something like twenty four diapers a day. i wonder what absurd things we're going to think we have to do that turn out to be completely unnecessary.
monkey: herm frumph yes but maybe ?
me: ?
monkey: we're going to wash diapers in there, right? and there'll be poop on them. which will get mixed with water and soap and then drain into the sink.
me: maybe it can drain into the toilet. or maybe we can just wash the sink after.
monkey: it's not about the sink. it's just, if it takes awhile to drain, i'm afraid the apartment is going to smell like poop water.
of all the things i think this apartment might smell like once the baby is here, including actual, unwatered poop, laundry wash water seems like not a big deal. i forget that the monkey has never diapered another person, and doesn't quite understand the workflow of what happens to the the cloth diaper and the poop inside it after it's removed from a baby butt. fair enough; it's not like it's really intuitive. my mom was just telling me that when i came home from the hospital after three weeks in what i think they did not yet call the NICU, she followed the routines the nurses used: automatic diaper changes before and after every feeding. she went through something like twenty four diapers a day. i wonder what absurd things we're going to think we have to do that turn out to be completely unnecessary.
