Diaper Doody. I have only one child, but I have been around many babies in my time, and have changed plenty of diapers. My husband, bless his heart, had never held a newborn let alone changed a diaper. So the day after my little girl was born, I was in the process of teaching my clueless husband how to change her diaper, when just as I went to wipe her bum, she pooped in my hand. I don’t think my husband has ever laughed so hard. He then asked if that was normal procedure for diaper changes, and left the room giggling. – Layton, UT
Good Grandma. My poor mom… at my son’s baby shower (he was two weeks old she was holding him when his diaper needed to be changed. Well, as she was changing the diaper he began to pee. So she covered him up with a diaper until he was done. Well, that wasn’t good enough because he began to squirt out the other end, all over her pants and shirt. Needless to say, we didn’t see her for the rest of the shower! – Fort Bragg, NC
Should’ve Ducked. When my first daughter was about 6 months old, our family was traveling with my two younger sisters. We were stopped for dinner at a fairly nice restaurant when we noticed a certain odor emanating from the baby’s general direction. My sister volunteered to help me change the dirty diaper. We were in the restroom and I had the baby on one of those portable changing tables where the rear end was facing me. All of a sudden, I heard a funny noise and wasn’t sure what it was, and then it happened again. This time I felt something. I looked down to see a mess on the front of my shirt… Yuck!! Well my sister was absolutely no help as she crumpled to her knees with laughter and left me to clean up the big mess. – San Francisco, CA
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