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Benjamin Frank Monologue

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remember being pregnant with my eldest daughter, perusing Facebook, when a mom friend posted a picture of her son’s poop on her wall. “He did it … he finally did it!” was captioned on the photo. As I stared at the newsfeed page, all I could think of was, ‘why?’ I mean really, who does this, who in their right mind does this? I don’t want to look at my own poo … why the heck would I want to look at his all grossed up in the toilet? My friend’s joyous celebration of her potty trained offspring was my first encounter with a mom who liked to talk about poop. Somehow, I naively thought that this annoying trait would never, ever hit me as a mother. Yet, a few days after the birth of my first daughter, I found myself doing something I never thought I would do: obsessing about stinky number twos. …show more content…

Why wasn’t she pooping … or if she was … what did it look like? The colour? Texture? Too runny, too firm? Is it stinky???? As you laugh while you are reading this, you know, this is not an uncommon thing. Moms all over this great country of ours love to obsess over our children’s $hit … and we don’t only think about it, we LOVE to talk about it! Seriously, I recently had a 20 minute conversation with a very dear friend about her son’s poop. How he was a bit constipated at first, but then he started pooping all day. ‘And what texture was it?’ I found myself asking (like Sherlock Holmes trying to solve a recent mystery). Peanut butter,’ she replied in a matter-of-fact

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