Baby brunch

We attended our second major "how to bring up a baby" class Saturday. There was a lot of worthwhile information ... tips on bathing the baby, how to deal with the cord stump, in-depth description of properly using your car seat. These classes have definitely been worth it, in case anyone is wondering whether they're really needed.
A friend asked if what we were being taught wasn't a lot of commone sense. He's right, but when it comes to bringing up a baby, it feels better to have a memory of a professional telling you you're doing it the right way somewhere in your head.

Play-Doh machine
Perhaps the oddest moment of the day came when the one nurse explained that, when changing the diaper and cleaning the baby off, you need to be careful of the Play-Doh effect. She explained that, when you lift up the baby's legs to get better access to cleaning off the backside, he'll act like a Play-Doh machine, and (she explained) shoot anything inside his bowels up to several feet away.
Oh joy!
I knew about the need for some urine shielding, but I wasn't aware of the Play-Doh concerns.
You know, the 1915 "Care and Feeding of Children" makes no mention of this. Maybe we're doing something wrong these days. Perhaps if I bathe the baby in 55 degree water, he'll be less likely to shoot things at me and the walls.