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Several colleagues were laughing about a YouTube video making the rounds that shows men gagging and gasping for air as they tried to change a baby’s diaper — one in a hazmat suit. Before we had our two kids, I’d only changed one diaper in my life — my brother Frito Ray’s, upon my father’s orders. Dad, another brother, and I had been left alone with Baby Ray. Who had been crying for some time because he needed to be changed. So I was volunteered for the honor. And remember gagging and barely able to follow through with the assignment. However, my kids were raised wearing disposable diapers. I had no trouble changing them/Huckleberries Online.
Question (for men): Do/did you change your kids’ diapers?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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toadman on May 01 at 1:52 p.m.
Yes. I’ve changed my fair share of diapers, in many locations and states off “fullness.”
One of the joys of being a parent is frequently being elbow deep in human feces.
Liz on May 01 at 1:58 p.m.
I gagged and I’m not a guy.
Poop is gross…
JeanieSpokane on May 01 at 2:10 p.m.
I used cloth diapers totally - couldn’t afford Pampers. I was ok - the boys’ father on the other hand never changed one single diaper. “That’s Mom’s job!”
Arpie on May 01 at 2:51 p.m.
It’s not a job. It’s a dooty!
hhuseland on May 01 at 3:02 p.m.
MANY, MANY TIMES.
toadman on May 01 at 3:07 p.m.
HA! Well done Arpie.. well done indeed.
BigMac on May 01 at 3:17 p.m.
I’m a stay at home dad. I change my boy’s diaper almost every time.
Joker on May 01 at 3:29 p.m.
Real men change diapers.
Cindy_H on May 01 at 3:30 p.m.
“Real men change diapers.”
Real men don’t wear diapers.
Cabbage Boy on May 01 at 3:53 p.m.
I rarely hold babies or change diapers, unless they are my own kids. But of course I am so mean, I make my kids change their own diapers.
Joker on May 01 at 4:19 p.m.
Cindy,
You made me spit out my coke. Funny.
lew2nl on May 01 at 7:27 p.m.
What are disposable diapers? No one had invented those when I had 3 little ones in cloth diapers all at the same time!