Living at The Meconium

A friend com­mented on the baby jar­gon we’ve accu­mu­lated over the past 9 months, but I’m sure it’s the same with all new parents.

One of the things that we’ve learned is that baby’s first few poops are a sticky greenish-black sub­stance called “meco­nium”. That sounds more like the name of one of those mod­ern designer con­do­minium com­plexes than greenish-black baby poop.

Greenish-black baby poop should be called “whadda heow? why is his shit lid­dat?“

Some more, telling the taxi dri­ver, “Uncle, drop me off at The Meco­nium” doesn’t sound out of place. Some con­dos do have stu­pid names any­way — like this one on Bal­moral Road still under con­struc­tion, called “Sui Generis”, because the devel­op­ers think buy­ers will believe that their unit is one of a kind, just like the other 39 in the block.

And don’t worry, we’re not the sort of par­ents that take pic­tures of poop and post them up on the ingter­neck.

We just take the pictures.