Here I was just typing away, my beautiful girls taking peaceful naps, at the same time (score one for me!) and this familiar smells comes over me. It was motherhood. The smell of motherhood is no match for even the most expensive of perfumes. Once it’s on you it has you!
The big mystery started when I went to sign for a package from Fedex. The usual happy go lucky Fedex man had no smile today. Instead he took a step back and rubbed his nose with an anxious look on his face. Clearly he smelled something foul.
The unique aroma of formula vomit had come over me as well, but from where? That was the question. I looked at my hands, my arms, my pants…nothing. Then I looked over my left shoulder to discover the culprit. Baby vomit all over the back of my shirt. Don’t ask me how this could have happened without me knowing but it did.
Isn’t being a mom grand?
Haha, my monkey was a puker, it was in my hair, on the chairs, in the 5-10 baby blankets we would carry to go to the grocery store, it was in our shoes and even made in down into Hubby’s pants, into his wallet and onto the credit card. My advice to anyone holding a baby, do not wear fleece! The smell takes forever to come out of fleece.
Yup, motherhood is glam isn’t it? Poor fedex guy!! LOL
man when you least expect it look behind you LOL
lovely, essence of puke is what i call it… i have wore it a few too many times myself too!
Better than Eu de Poop. I think as moms we get to wear all those fancy perfumes.
Oh yes. I remember those days…..I kind of miss them!! My husbanda would rather have poop on him then spit up. Not me!
Abby spit up half of what she ate and her hypoallergenic formula smelled worse than regular formula. Our entire house had that smell from couch to carpet to clothes.
At least you didn’t go to the store that way!
I bet you are forever known by the Fedex dude as “baby vomit lady”
I can remember those days. The spit up smell gets embedded in your nose. I would have it in my hair, on my shirt, and neck. It works as great birth control! Hubby wouldn’t come within a few feet from me.
LOL! I remember those days. The couch always seemed to have the smell when you sat down. I still think I smell it somedays…
Oh but this happened to my husband but it was his mouth the baby spit up landed in!! For real! Learned his lesson not to lift the baby up above his head after feedings.
LOL I remember
thank goodness she’s not spiting up anymore…but I’m so ready for another LOL I miss those baby days!
I totally remember those days. It’s on your shoulder or back you can’t see it. Oh the joys of mammahood.
haha! Last night I went out to get a birthday present for a party today and in the checkout line of Target smelled urine. Thinking, “gross” I glanced around and realized that a bit of it had got on my shirt from the cloth diaper mishap that had happened right before bed. I laughed at myself then promptly went home and showered!
LOL – I am only laughing because I know exactly what you mean. The joys of motherhood, eh? Happy Saturday Cat!
LOL It’s so funny how that’s almost a rite of passage for all moms. Like, those who haven’t gotten covered with some type of nasty bodily fluid shooting out of their infant child aren’t allowed to be inducted into the “mommy” secret society. LOL Until you’ve smelled the wonderfully horrible smell of hours-old baby vomit, you’re an outcast haha Sooooo, I suppose WELCOME TO THE CLUB, darling!
haha
What a lovely smell! I hear ya!
Aww, I so know what the smell of Motherhood is ! I can remember always thinking that there was spit up somewhere or maybe it was someone else ! Finding out that it was always me . But we sure wouldn’t trade it for the world !
Have a great day today Cat
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Awww….poor you. That is really funny though it isn’t. You are right. Smelling like a mom is something only our children and husbands can appreciate.
Funny! Nothing like the smell of rancid puke
LMAO That happened to me more than a few times since my kids had wicked bad reflux. *gag* Aww well…the joys of motherhood! lol
Boy, I sure don’t miss that!! Too bad for the FedEx guy. I bet he’ll be ringin’ and runnin’ in the future.
Oh no!!!! Lol
I’m sorry, but that is too funny =]
Although, I probably would have done the exact same thing and not even noticed until it was physically pointed out to me…
Ooo that smell. It’s a smell you can’t reproduce. And it sure does stink. I am getting a newborn baby (2 weeks old) daycare kiddo in October and I am not looking forward to that smell again. PU!!
Hey, we’ve all worn it from time to time! Yup, we’re all in The Club together!
LOL Wonder if he’ll ever return again. Or atleast get that close to your door..Poor Cat I’m sure those days are not lasting long the pukey stage will be over soon
We should bottle our scent and sell it as a perfume called Motherhood. Maybe then the Fed Ex guy would say, “Oh that’s the same perfume my wife wears.lol