Yes, if you couldn't tell from the title, this is a bit of a gross blog post. You have been warned.
My son has just been having a bath (supervised by his mother), when he decided that the best thing in the world to do was to drink the bath water.
I remember doing this when I was little, I seem to think that sucking it out of the flannel was a particularly tasty way of enjoying this particular treat. Disgusting yes, but it was twenty five (or more) years ago.
Now in my partners defense, I usually do bathing duties, but this time she was sorting him out as my back is playing up a bit and I wanted to get a start on some paperwork that needing doing. My son has this trick where he floats in the bath, and lowers his mouth into the bath, to drink the water. He's only done this occasionally, but I've learned to notice when he tries to do this and intervene, while I don't think my partner realised immediately what he was planning and he took full advantage of this. You can always tell when our son is doing something that he shouldn't, and that he knows that he shouldn't, because he'll do it as quickly as possible. He was knocking my birthday cards off the windowsill the other day, and when I told him "No" his response was to accelerate the process so that he could complete it before I stopped him. So you can imagine, being given a split second to drink something he shouldn't, he went for it.
I heard some coughing and noises, and then my partner called up to me "Mike, can you come give us a hand please". I ventured downstairs to find her drying my son off while he cheerfully announced "Sick!", and the water draining out of the bath, leaving a rather nasty looking ring of... well I'm sure you can imagine.
So, I got him a drink, checked all was otherwise well, and left her taking on the bath with the aid of Cillit Bang.
I bet they haven't thought about advertising how well it deals with that sort of stain.
(I will end this blog just to say that I too have cleaned various... substances... out of the bath! Just not this time!)
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Thursday, 7 August 2014
Thursday, 26 June 2014
What's in a mattress?
I had to resort to doing some chores today, reluctant though I am to dabble in household arts there was simply no option for me but to buckle down and do stuff.
When I was changing the bedding on my sons bed, I happened to glance at the information label on the mattress.
I'll save you from reading all the notes, but two bits stood out to me.
One - "Manufactured without the addition of Phosphorous, Antimony or Arsenic".
Well, thanks for that. Yes, that last item was Arsenic, well known as a poison, and is classed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a "class 1 carcinogen". So that's a bad thing (although it does have many uses apart from killing biological species).
Not entirely sure why they felt the need to write that on the label. The only assumption I can make is that it is commonly used in mattresses - if that's the case, perhaps it's time to wear some pyjamas to bed.
And the second point I'd like to flag up is a large warning towards the bottom of the label. It says...
Who buys a mattress that is good at soaking up vomit? Can you imagine how hard it would be to clean a vomit soaked mattress? And if you did frantically need to clear up some vomit, how many different materials would you choose before thinking "Well, there's nothing else for it, better throw a mattress on it"?
(Of course I do understand issues around babies being sick and the need to ensure that it is dealt with appropriately, but even then I can't imagine any reasonable parent, having spent the morning investigating a variety of beds and mattresses, finally saying "Let us buy this mattress, it actively absorbs vomit so if little Hercules is unwell we don't need to worry - it'll suck that sick straight out of our baby and contain it safely within its springy interior"
As an aside, I have a new video up on my channel, feel free to check it out here (or watch it below), I've ranted about shaving and how razors and shaving gel are not up to the task.
When I was changing the bedding on my sons bed, I happened to glance at the information label on the mattress.
I'll save you from reading all the notes, but two bits stood out to me.
One - "Manufactured without the addition of Phosphorous, Antimony or Arsenic".
Well, thanks for that. Yes, that last item was Arsenic, well known as a poison, and is classed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a "class 1 carcinogen". So that's a bad thing (although it does have many uses apart from killing biological species).
Not entirely sure why they felt the need to write that on the label. The only assumption I can make is that it is commonly used in mattresses - if that's the case, perhaps it's time to wear some pyjamas to bed.
And the second point I'd like to flag up is a large warning towards the bottom of the label. It says...
WARNING: THIS MATTRESS DOES NOT SOAK UP VOMIT
Who buys a mattress that is good at soaking up vomit? Can you imagine how hard it would be to clean a vomit soaked mattress? And if you did frantically need to clear up some vomit, how many different materials would you choose before thinking "Well, there's nothing else for it, better throw a mattress on it"?
(Of course I do understand issues around babies being sick and the need to ensure that it is dealt with appropriately, but even then I can't imagine any reasonable parent, having spent the morning investigating a variety of beds and mattresses, finally saying "Let us buy this mattress, it actively absorbs vomit so if little Hercules is unwell we don't need to worry - it'll suck that sick straight out of our baby and contain it safely within its springy interior"
As an aside, I have a new video up on my channel, feel free to check it out here (or watch it below), I've ranted about shaving and how razors and shaving gel are not up to the task.
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