How To Quell an Explosive Diaper

This morning, sometime after breakfast, and sometime prior to nap-time, a diaper exploded.

Now, I am not even certain as to exactly who it belonged to, or rather, even which diaper actually even exploded, but the evidence remains proof positive, that it did.

I innocently went to the baby gate and said my usual, "Who's ready for a nap?" I was greeted with a very sad very wet Baby Vivienne.

Somewhere along the way, she actually managed to LOSE her diaper. How, I shall never know, but it happened.

She still had her pajama's on, is the odd part. I still do not know if she somehow shimmied it off, or if she had some brotherly help.

I did find it neatly placed on the shelf, though, neatly folded as if to send me the message that the previous owner would like it returned at some point, and preferably soon!

I managed to get Vivienne cleaned up, changed into her brother's Lightening McQueen's, and twinkled upstairs for her nap.

Then I went back for her brothers. Kian was easy to spot as he was rather wet and waiting in position on the couch for his breeches to be changed.

I took care of him, noting that his diaper was in tact and in place as I went about my changing duty (no pun intended there!)

I hauled him upstairs using our upstairs feet and got him squared away in his bed, teddy, blanket and all.

Then I went back for Kai. Poor Kai, who had managed somehow to get himself stuck inside one of the feeding chairs AGAIN.

Now, he could easily be the source of the exploding diaper, as I noticed little white, wet and sticky balls all around the feeding chairs and even on top of one of the trays.

I had tried to block out the fact that the tell-tale same icky goey balls were all over my rug as well as one end of my sofa.

I freed Kai, changed his seemingly suspiciously intact diaper and we put our upstairs feet on and made the journey to the nursery and got him squared away and happy with his teddy and blanket as well.

I gave everyone their nap-time kissies and headed back downstairs to try and plot out my plan of attack.

Every Mum dreads finding the tell-tale signs of an exploded diaper all over her floors and furniture.

If you have a baby, you will probably experience it at least once if you are lucky, more if you are less fortunate!

Used to, when this happened, I ended up cleaning up little diaper innards for days after the actual incident because the insides turn to basically gelatinous balls of goo that stick to EVERYTHING and anything.

But this time, I had the luxury of the babies all being in bed, so I could actually think about a plan of attack.

I decided to try and sweep the parts on the linoleum up into the dust pan, and try for vacuuming the rest off of my rug.

I was going off of the idea that none of the diapers that had just been changed had been all that wet.

In fact, I still had yet to find any holes in any of the diapers that had been in circulation at the time!

Surprisingly enough, though, it vacuumed right up with little or no problem. I was even able to sweep up the mess that trailed all throughout the dining room fairly easily.

I had the whole thing, couch included, clean within about fifteen minutes. I could not believe my luck!

So for future reference, if by some chance your baby's diaper explodes and the insides get all over your house, USE THE VACUUM!!!! I am not sure how, but it worked in this case!