***This is a sponsored post for Harpic and best not to be read during food consumption***
Like it wasn’t bad enough growing up sharing a toilet with 2 older brothers, my life continues to be plagued as a mother and wife of flatulence fiends.
FIENDS, I tells ya!
We spend the first couple of years as parents on constant poo monitoring mode.
“Is it runny?”
“Is this yellow colour unusual?”
“Is this the first one for the day?”
Then, we go through the dilemmas of toilet training, which doesn’t need further expansion here as our stomachs (and mental state) have weathered enough during that trying stage of parenting.
But how do you handle it when they pop a fluffy? Particularly the Silent But Deadly’s (SBD’s).
How does so much toxic, pungent gas come out of one tiny bottom?
And how do they manage to carry on with their business like nothing happened?
Typical scenario:
Strong foul rotten egg smell inundates the room.
Me: Okay, who did a toot toot?
Nunu: Me! (Big satisfied smile)
The smile is sinister. His poop gas punishes my stomach.
For this innocent 4 year old, a stink bomb deserves just as much praise as letting out the big brown sharks in the loo.
Not quite, buddy.
So, I ask him, “Do you need to do a poo poo?”
“No” is the casual reply.
There’s that evil smile again.
And more passing wind.
Okay. I will ‘fess up. My bottom doesn’t emit pleasant smells of lavender or roses either. I like to let one rip as much as my boys.
But, I like to think I leave the SBD’s for the privacy of the toilet. Or under the doona.
Especially when it’s Dutch Oven payback time for Mr Surfer. That’s fair, yes?
You can imagine that scented candles and open windows are mandatory in our flatulence filled home. Not to mention the bathroom products necessary to keep our toilet in (at best) a bearable state.
Bet you’re hanging to come over now!
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We’ve been trying out the Toilet Hygienic Plus for the main loo and the Toilet Dual Action Block for the second one.
Our toilets have never smelt so civil and fragrant!
For all the times when the boys (including the big one) miss, there are the Toilet Wipes.
And boys being boys. They ALWAYS miss.
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What’s been the funniest or stinkiest fart story in your home?
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Annabelle Franklin says
I’m not eligible for the competition – I live in the UK – but I love this post! Nothing like a good fart story to put a big grin on my face 😀
Alicia O'Brien says
My sister is always reminding me of the time I let one go, which sent my son into dry retching! Naughty mummy haha.
I take much rivalrous joy in having the silent deadlies in bed next to my husband. It makes me snigger giggle my head off. Pay back much!
I am toilet training my almost three year old at the moment, although she is doing really well, I could do with a pack of those wipes!
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Di Childs says
After my son was born, the Midwife was demonstrating how to change his nappy, and while his legs were up in the air, spreadeagled, he did the biggest fart/explosive poo and it went all over her face. I felt bad, but it was hands down one of the funniest moments of my life.
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Bianca says
This one cracked me right up!
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Kelli Schultz says
LOL great story. Please don’t include me in the comp though 🙂
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Bec @ The Plumbette says
Haha! Great post Grace! Gosh I have too many fart stories but one that comes to mind was when I was at Tafe and all the apprentices and I were under a demountable building to practice running waste pipe underneath for a mock bathroom. Anyway it stank to high heaven under there because someone kept dropping their guts and all of us kept complaining because there were constant wafts of fart smell. One apprentice said ‘someone needs to lay off the chiko rolls’ while another threatened to cap the offenders bum off. I escaped as soon as I could from under there because I couldn’t handle the smell and ended up doing the fit off above. Plumbers smell nasty smells but they can certainly emit some shockers themselves!!
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Lisa Wood says
We have a porta-loo {well we used to but we have just purchased a new one with two rinses to help with the smells} and i was dry-retching when ever it needed to be emptied into the Toilet Dump Points on our travels.
This time we have told all of our boys THEY MUST sit down to do number ones so that they don’t miss and it gets under the seals to smell bad until its cleaned off.
This time they must try and do number 2’s when ever we stop along the way from NSW to QLD.
This time i am going to use a peg over my nose when the toilet is being used……
and if this newer porta loo is just as bad as the last one I am then going to walk while they all drive north 🙂
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Kim says
Whenever I saw my two boy cousins as a kid, they would make me sit between them in the backseat whenever we went anywhere, and they would stink up that car like nothing on earth!
karina l says
My 8 month old farts all the time and it often gets confused with a number two because the stench is so fierce, it’s like a punch to the face.