Parenting Question
Let me set the scene:
You're bed sharing with a toddler. After nearly 2 hours, they have finally fallen asleep...upside down...one foot resting on your head...intermittently kicking you. You had chili for dinner, and it has been percolating inside you for hours. It currently feels like Satan is stirring your guts with a pitchfork. If you move, the toddler will wake up. There is an enormous heater of a fart welling up inside you. You're clenching your sphincter as hard as you can, but you're losing the battle.
Do you move and wake the toddler? Or, do you stay still and just release what is surely toxic gas on their head?
Asking for an...ummm...friend
Posted Nov 12, 2022, 8:50 PM UTC
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Never trust a fart. If they wake up, they wake up.
See, I would’ve advised the opposite. Kids are tough and would surely survive the cloud of doom. Might even convince the child to swap orientation.
Seriously, I’ve had hit or miss luck with moving a pillow in between me and the child and then sneaking off. That little bit of pressure against their side seems to convince them they’re not alone.
The pillow trick works about 50/50 right now. The kiddo has been super restless lately. Now my oldest (9f) never even seemed to register that farts smelled until she was around 6...Such a sad day for me. Before that, I could cuddle and just let them rip. One fateful night, she gagged and asked, "What's that smell!?!" It was such a BUMmer.
My kid is just about 3 and has recently started smelling his own (at times foul) farts. He'll fart and then say "can you smell that? It's in my nose". Yes, honey, it's in mine too...
😂. That's so adorable though.
Mine adapted. Only convinced now if he feels skin in his sleep. Send help.
One day, you’re going to realize you don’t remember the last time you snuggled their little sleeping self and it hurts!
It takes so much of you when you’re in the middle of it but you’ll get through this. Sending internet mom hugs if you’d like them.
Maybe it’s IBS… but I will never trust that fart.
It’s be hilarious if baby woke up in a panic like when doctors make patients smell those special salts 😆
PREACH.