All about baby poo

"Coochie coochie...poo!"

This has got to be the funniest thing I have seen in a long time: 3 dads at our hypnobirthing class learning how to change a nappy, bath and swaddle a baby. Under the watchful eye of the mums, the dads opened up the nappies to find a little surprise inside each one - chocolate sauce (to imitate the baby's first poo which is tarry black meconium); pesto (apparently the next phase of poo is green) and finally Dijon mustard (a fair approximation of breast-fed baby poo).

The main learning points were:

• Have everything you need within reach (which could be a challenge for Mr "can you just get me the..." Dom).
• It helps to have four pairs of hands (or ideally, be an octopus).
• Wipe front to back for girls.
  
• You only need to fill the bath a couple of inches high (although I did like one guy's confident answer: "lower than the head". Yeah, definitely).
• Do not leave your baby sitting in the bath. (I think this will become a bit more obvious when the baby is a real live wriggly thing rather than an inanimate plastic doll!)
• When you go on holiday, expect to take 2 suitcases (half of one will contain stuff for husband and wife - the rest is nappies and baby paraphernalia). Actually we didn't learn this one in the class - I have to thank our friend Andrew for passing on this piece of friendly advice...