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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    2/10/14 10:10am

    So I bought a newly-minted parent friend of mine a snot sucker as a baby gift.

    I told my sister last night that she had inspired me, as I always saw her use one.
    She responded by telling me that her daughter hates it; so my sister has resorted to being a human snot sucker. She just blesses herself and goes in.

    It was one of the most loving - and utterly gross - things that I have ever heard.

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      emdroidSean Brody
      2/10/14 10:17am

      OMG try following STFUParents and you will learn some really insane things parents do to keep their kids' orifices free of.. umm.. blockage. For example, literally pulling poop out of a constipated kid's butthole for him/her.

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      Sean Brodyemdroid
      2/10/14 10:19am

      It's a form of insanity is what it is.

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    Miss DHamilton Nolan
    2/10/14 10:15am

    100% breastfed baby poop actually does smell good, before I had a kid I was holding a friend's baby and suddenly thought, whoa, where's that smell of freshly baked biscuits coming from?

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      phunkshunMiss D
      2/10/14 10:30am

      Shit is shit.

      Your little shit factory's output only smelled that way because you're his mother.

      Trust me, it was still shit...and smelled like shit.

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      CleverUsernameMiss D
      2/10/14 10:32am

      While, I can't say it smells like freshly baked bread, my 7-week old, solely breastfeed son's poo definitely doesn't smell bad at all. In fact, it doesn't really smell at all. His urine has a more identifiable odor, which isn't bad either.

      Hooray, boob-milk!

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    poofypantaloons2Hamilton Nolan
    2/10/14 10:11am

    In the interest of science (and scatology):

    This is real, and probably a great way to pick someone up at a bar.

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      UncleCCClaudiuspoofypantaloons2
      2/10/14 10:36am

      Kinsey 4, Bristol 3, how you doin?

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      poofypantaloons2UncleCCClaudius
      2/10/14 10:40am
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    HiMyNameIsJayAgainHamilton Nolan
    2/10/14 10:11am

    That's yet another reason for parents who are ardently breast-milk-only to feel smug—their kid's poop doesn't stink.

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      RorggHamilton Nolan
      2/10/14 10:23am

      I don't think my kid's poop smelled better than other kids' poop. But I COMPLETELY believe my kid's poop when she was on breast milk only smelled infinitely better than it did after her diet expanded. Could that be it? Thinking baby poop stinks (on the whole, true!) and then you get YOUR kid, which may not stink so much at the start?

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        bipolar-copHamilton Nolan
        2/10/14 11:40am

        It's all about your general level of squeamishness...

        I am not generally squeamish. I am a total outlier I know but if I am changing my kid and some of his poop gets on my, I really do not give it a second thought. Changing other kid's diapers generally does not phase me either.

        Other people are at the opposite end of the spectrum. My sister in law, after watching my son pluck a half eaten carrot out of his mouth and pop it into my mouth, watched me chew it up with incredulity. She'd not do that with her own kids ever. For me? His spit is just an extension of my spit. No big deal.

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          bipolar-copbipolar-cop
          2/10/14 3:28pm

          Oh yeah... I also have no problem with his snot and boogers, nor his snotty boogers, nor his barf, which I've happily sat covered in for a few moments while gauging when he will be calmed down enough to do a quick general clean up.

          One of the things that you remember about your own childhood once you have a kid is exactly how horrific barfing is to a child. For a kid it is almost a near death experience, very frightening... for adults its almost therapeutic since you feel better after.

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        FrottycheeseHamilton Nolan
        2/10/14 10:58am

        I must be a horrible mother because none of my kids poop has ever smelled anything but horrific to me. I hate changing diapers and will occasionally blackmail/pay off my siblings to do it. Poop is poop and I can't stand it from anyone (myself included.)

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          littlemorisa9Hamilton Nolan
          2/10/14 11:00am

          It isn't that my baby's poop is less smelly, I just get over the poop smell quicker than I would for older humans/animals. My brain goes into "there's a cleanup job to do here" mode and all of the sudden it just doesn't smell as much anymore. I know it still smells really bad because I have to take out the garbage later.

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            amyceeHamilton Nolan
            2/10/14 10:36am

            Here's a study to add to the supporting data:

            http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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              raincoasterHamilton Nolan
              2/10/14 5:04pm

              Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up there. "Parents employed at Gawker Media????" The Dark Lord's HR henchmen are clearly slipping.

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