Do you remember PEMDAS (or Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally) from high school or possibly grade school for you overachievers. Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition and Subtraction (PEMDAS) is the Order of Operations or the order which to perform the various arithmetic in mathematical expressions [E.g., (9-4)+45/9^6]. Basically, the order to follow in finishing or solving an equations.
I've come up with a very similar concept for addressing crying or fussy babies - PUBGEMS - "
Peel Up the Baby Giraffe Embroidered on My Shirt."
- (P)oop
- (U)rine
- (B)oobie/bottle
- (G)Gas
- (E)nvelop
- (M)otion
- (S)Sucker
1) Poop: I always smell my baby near the diaper area. After only 3 days of changing
diapers, I can smell a soiled breast-fed baby diaper from 100 ft away. This step is first because it's the easiest and least intrusive.
2) Urine: Check for urine or a wet diaper. My son develops what looks like a baby cod piece when he wets his diaper. It's kind of funny, but it's pretty good indicator that he needs to be changed. The diapers swells and gets squishy in the front. This step is second, because it is easy, but slightly more intrusive than the smell test.
