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Our vomit story wasn’t as public. We were camping in our vintage Airstream trailer. We hadn’t had it very long and son was maybe two or three? He was in pull-ups and in the big stroller. He got a flu bug and threw up all over the bedding. It was spaghetti. Then the other end blew out clear watery & smelly, the kind that just leaks out of the pull up leg openings, all over the car seat and the stroller. We spent a morning at the laundromat cleaning everything… car seat cover, stroller cover, blankets & sheets… the whole megilla.
Well, at least you and your family will be able to look back at this incident over the years. If Delmar becomes a Daddy, he can share the story with his wife. It will become Tracy lore.
At least it wasn’t a Torchinsky poop explosion.
Hey David. I’ll give you the same pep-talk i give all new parents who are still in the baby meat grinder: it gets better. It gets easier, and more fun. I didn’t really enjoy any part of being a parent for at least a couple years, which isn’t necessarily the norm but also not that abnormal, and i worried every day that i had taken a job that i didn’t like, wasn’t good at, and could never quit. But it gets better. They get a lot more fun, and interesting too. It seems like you’re probably doing fine, but i figure it never hurts to hear.
First of all, despite the suffering, I’m glad all three of you were ok in the end. I also understand how this feels, I was once barfed upon in two different states in one day by my own infant back in the day. All that being said, the description of a bald spot filled in like a mashed potato gravy-divot did have me wheezing!
Had a nephew who simply had a hair-trigger barf reflex when he was a baby.
Distinctly remember him projectile vomiting over the back of a church pew during mass. Fortunately, it was mostly milk.
i still haven’t bothered to step into Erewhon. i already know i’m not going to spend ridiculous money on groceries so why bother.
This is such a great story!! Raising kids is such an adventure! Kudos to you for taking it with such grace. It’ll be a great bit of family lore to retell Delmar when he’s older.
Erewhon is no longer the most expensive grocery store in LA, Laurel Supply is!
https://lamag.com/news/inside-the-new-laurel-supply-market-in-west-hollywood/
Can you imagine being one of the poors who has to shop at the second most expensive grocery store in LA?
Well, I guess at least you can know it wasn’t your fault.
It was your child’s. Who you made.
Nevermind!
Yikes! My now 31-years-old son never did anything like that, and Mothers’ Day was never that traumatic. I hope your all 100% okay now.
The fact that both you and your wife exhibited the same symptoms as “Delmar” without having eaten the same past “best by” date food means any guilt you felt about feeding him that was misplaced.
Gotta love the feeling of impending doom as everyone in the household succumbs to the stomach bug and you’re the last one standing.
I remember a stomach bug that hit my house when my son was a baby, and the awful feeling of running out of clean sheets and towels because everything had barf or poop on it.