Blueberries and Baby

The other night, while making dinner, my fiancé called to me to come look at our son's poop.( I know, what a way to start a blog post.) I left dinner to go examine this strange looking diaper. It was almost BLACK! So I did what most people do in this day and age and ask my good friend google about it. And the results.... Internal bleeding. I started to panic. It looked like coffee grounds so that's what I googled. The poop was very dark and left specks on his bum that were very hard to get off. I informed my fiancée of the information I found and we proceeding to get ready to go to the ER.

At the ER the triage nurse asked us a series of questions and I showed her the pooped filled diaper we were carrying around. One of the questions she asked: what did he have to eat today? Oh man he had blueberries, but I started reasoning that he has had blueberries before and this has never happened.

So the 3 of us settled ourselves in the waiting room for what will be a couple hour wait. Once comfortable I reexamined the diaper under the fluorescent hospital lighting. SHIT! Those little "coffee grounds" now look like seeds. Did I feed him too many blueberries this morning? I shared my epiphany to J(fiancé). He reexamined the diaper as I pointed out the seeds. Slowly I could see the look on his face as it dawned on him as well. CRAP! Are we now looking like some overly neurotic parents carrying around a shitty diaper, with a baby out past his bedtime?

We decided to stay and wait it out. We finally saw the dr and he agreed that the poop did look quite weird. He took a swab to test for blood but was hopeful my son just ate too many blueberries. (The doctor was very nice about everything and reassured us we weren't being silly). The results came back... Negative! Of course I was absolutely thrilled the only thing that was wrong was my son ate too many blueberries but I couldn't help but feel a little silly.

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