The following conversation took place between myself and my friend Jess, who has a baby two weeks younger than Clark. Let it be noted that we are both formally very smart women.
Clark had just produced a funny looking poo while visiting Jess and wee Viola. After the two of us had examined it thoroughly, she got out her Dr. Sears book. While flipping through the index:
Jess: What’s the real word for poop?
Me: (silence)
Me: I don’t know!
Me: Feces?
Jess: (checks book) No, that’s not it.
Me: Excrement? No, that can’t be right.
(several more seconds of silence)
Jess: Stool! That’s it! Stool.
HA HA HA HA! I sat in a pediatrician’s office trying to figure out how to refer to my daughter’s farts in the appropriate medical term. I don’t think I came up with “gas” for an hour. I also had to remind myself to talk about her stool as a “bowel movement” rather than “Poop.” I am guessing doctors here this stuff a lot… Ah, baby brain.
This is exactly whey I prefer emailing my thoughts. I can use my handy desk top thesaurus to sound like a grown up and no one can see me struggle! Unfortunately “poop” could not be found.
Hee hee! It’s even funnier, transcribed.
Let it be known, for the record, that the only way I came up with “stool” was by looking up “meconium” in the index (as a desperate measure to try to find something poo-related) and noting that it was listed as “meconium stool.”
As I read your blog tonight, our 1.7 yr old is trying to push a mack truck out of her anus. Talk about feeling helpless.
I think we are raising an anal retentive. So painful to watch.
Pray for us.
~e
Noreen: Ha! I would have just said fart.
clickmom: Yes, if this had been a virtual conversation, we could have used back up.
Jess: Hilarious! I didn’t know that!
e: Poor baby!