Strapped In

Bowman was breech for most of his stay in Hotel Uterus, which caused several things to happen.
1) He was folded in half for approximately 6 months
2) He arrived in the world butt first
3) He could eat his own toes for the first few hours of his life
4)He was born with hip displaysia, a condition where the hips don't sit quite right in the sockets.
To correct this he had to wear a Pavlick harness for 6 weeks FULL TIME. The doctor strapped on the harness on Tuesdays at Shriner's Hospital. We would return the following Tuesday, when we would take the harness off, bath him, put on a fresh onesie, and get the thing strapped back on.
Let's take a minute and reflect on the implications of this process. He had to wear a onesie, with a full body harness over it, for a week at a time WITHOUT TAKING IT OFF. Now, imagine all the gross things babies do that end up on their clothes. Pee, poop, spit up. Now imagine your baby wearing all of that for a week. By bath day he smelled, quite literally, like a dirty diaper. Disgusting. The harness has two straps that go from chest to feet. Right where the side claps of a diaper go. This meant that you had weave the diaper on around the harness. As if trying to put a diaper on a squirmy, crying newborn isn't hard enough. Sheesh.
Today, however, was the end of this nightmare! Today the harness became "night time only". Now my kid is squeaky clean and flossin' in a cute new outfit with his feet dangling free! I am one happy momma :)