How to get a vest full of poo off of your baby without smearing poo everywhere

This was actually life changing when I found this out and I wish that I had discovered it earlier.

After realising that your baby has done a poonami and that their vest is now full of poo your mind instantly jumps to a very obvious question. How on earth am I going to pull this vest over your head without smearing poo all in your hair and other places on your body? Well the simple answer is you can’t really. It’s pretty impossible. If you are lucky enough to have someone to help you at the time, one of you can try to stretch the vest and hold it away from the baby whilst the other one pulls it up and off but even still chances are you are going to smear it elsewhere.

My baby friends and I spent many hours discussing this dilemma and how an already bad mess was made worse and normally resulted in a bath to clean the baby up afterwards.

Then one day my friend Kelly sent a text to our Whatsapp group informing us that with the envelope neck they are designed to go down as well as up! What? Why did we not know this already? Surely it should be a law to write this on the tag of every vest so that you know how it’s designed to work. This would have saved so much trouble and extra washing.

The next time my baby had a poonami I tried it. Perfect. I simply pulled the vest down his body and off his legs. There was a tiny bit of poo smeared on one of his legs but on the whole the poo was contained and I hadn’t made the mess any worse. Result. No need to wash his hair, which he hated and was guaranteed to lead to a meltdown.

Phew disaster averted.

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