Colin had the blowout to end all blowouts on Thanksgiving. We were about to leave the house, and meet up with Mark (who'd already left, fortunately for him and his weak stomach!) and my parents. I put baby in the exersaucer so he couldn't get into trouble while I went to grab his dressy outfit. Then I pulled him out of the exersaucer, and stood him on his feet on the carpet. Then I picked him up and noticed a stain on the (formerly cream-colored) carpet where he'd been standing. I looked at baby's legs and almost fainted... it seriously looked like he'd had a gallon of creamed peas dumped on him, in a gatorade-jug-on-a-football-coach style. He had a cloth diaper on, which probably saved the surrounding furniture, but we may have to burn the exersaucer, it was that gross.

I sat baby in my bathroom sink (we normally shower with him, so no bathtub close by) and rinsed him off... meanwhile he's grabbing things off the sink and throwing them into the poop-filled sink with him. (I also have to burn a hairbrush and a bottle of softsoap now). Then after I got Colin cleaned and dressed, I had to scrub the carpet, take some rags & some paper towels to the lower part of the exersaucer, which was now serving as a dish for a gallon of my son's bodily fluids (how COULD he have that many intestines in his 14 lb body?!).

And here's a little tip for exersaucer owners... put a rag or piece of wax paper or something underneath it, because apparently it has drainage holes, and apparently they work... because they allowed poopies to drain all over my carpet. I also put the cloth exersaucer seat in the laundry, and took clorox wipes to everything and anything (including the front of the coffee maker, no I am not kidding, because I dropped a dirty rag on it as I walked past). I also told Mark "You know how they say the sink is the dirtiest place in the average house? Well now that is definitely true!" I need to bleach the sinks, but I was so late after my 30 min cleanup that I haven't done so yet (if you don't hear from me for a while, it's because my whole family has contracted some horrible disease from ingesting bacteria found in baby doodoo ).

OK so I apologize for grossing you out, it was just soooo awful that it was funny (only in hindsight of course).

My only advice for parents hoping to avoid blowouts like this is:
1) put something under the Exersaucer so the blowouts won't leak out of the drainage holes, and
2) put a cover over the sposies, esp during naps & at night (not that that would have helped me in this situation). Because my beloved has blown out every disposible diaper he's ever worn. (He's between sizes 1 & 2 right now, but we can't go bigger than that bc he's so dang lanky! And I think he weighs less now that he's left a gallon of himself in my living room.)
3) And finally... don't sit on my living room floor. Not until I can reach a carpet cleaner, anyway!

Rene'