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?My newborn daughters? sh*t did not stink. Its smell was reminiscent of popcorn. After introducing solid foods though, their poops became smelly recaps of the meals we?d shared together. If 100 blueberries or black beans went in, 100 would come out, embedded in fecal matter but otherwise unchanged. Recently, our daycare provider forgot to put a disposable liner between M?s bum and the absorbent pad of her cloth diaper. (We use liners so that poo can be dumped into the toilet instead of being mashed into the cloth.) Of course, M took a dump in the linerless diaper, which made its way back to us in the bag with the other soiled cloth diapers. That night, as my partner breastfed and enjoyed some quiet time with M, I was in the bathroom, scraping at the feces in her fouled diaper with delicate wads of toilet paper. M had eaten black beans and a whole lot else, I can tell you. With some of the moisture sucked out of it, the poop of a toddler would make a fabulous adhesive.??Lee ?I?m waiting at the doctor?s office. She?s late and my two-month-old girl is fussy, so I?m bouncing her in a carrier around the waiting room like a crazy person. A nice old lady points at my leg saying, ?Uh oh, uh oh.? I look down, and that runny yellow poo is leaking down my jeans, past my knees. A nurse gave me a private room to change, but of all the stuff I lugged with me: no clean outfits. I stripped her down, used her sleeper to wipe my jeans and wrapped her in a blanket. The doct...