Thatababy by Paul Trap for August 18, 2021

Dad sure can’t get a break, can he?

The day Dads can carry the baby for 9 months & deliver it into the world, is the day Dads can quit being expected to change their children’s diapers & help clean up other assorted messes!!!

From the dearth of comments, looks like a lotta dads out there with burn marks around their ankles.

I was somewhere between five or six when I learned how to diaper a baby, and that was so long ago we’re talking cloth diapers. So, some time later, but still in the 1950’s, a TV show had a sketch about a new dad learning how to diaper a child and the instructor on the phone described the process relating it to baseball. “Lay the diaper out like a baseball diamond with you at home plate. Fold second base over home plate. Place the baby’s butt on the pitcher’s mound. Now fold home plate and second base up to the pitcher’s mound with the baby’s left leg on the first base line and right leg crossing third base line. Now fold third base over to the pitcher’s mound. Then fold first base over to the pitcher’s mound and pin all the bases together. Viola! A diapered baby.”The skit was supposed to be funny, but I was disgusted that a grown man didn’t know how to diaper a baby, something I knew as a kid. So disgusted I remember it 65 plus years latter.

Got to out think that bracelet by giving the baby to the mother. I did that more than once. Though in truth, I really didn’t mind changing my little one….

If they’d have had those when my kids were of diaper age – I’d probably have died of electrocution.

I always laugh at the way he holds the baby by one toe.

Any baby that makes a “blork” noise and shoots a foot in the air when he poops needs to see a doctor.