The baby sort of hates baths. She hates being naked and being naked is an important aspect of bathtime. So I haven't been bathing the baby everyday or anything. In fact she's had about a bath a week, but this was a bad week for her. She was really fussy and stayed up for 24 hours crying and hollering one day. I thought she was getting a cold cause she was extra snurgley. So how do you know when the baby NEEDS a bath. I mean she isn't like getting into things or anything, and I'm not personally a fan of torturing the baby for no reason. HOWEVER:
You know the baby needs a bath WHEN the baby smells like stinky cheese.
Very stinky cheese.
Posted by jlp716 at April 3, 2006 08:00 PMIt's from the milk that gets dribbled, particularly in the creases under the neck, while nursing. Logan used to make actual curds fermenting under his chin.
Yah, cheese. Got bagels?
Posted by: Lara at April 4, 2006 11:36 AMInterestingly, the Master Cheesemakers of Limburg determine the readiness of their product in a similar fashion.
Belgium's Gustav Von Opglabbeek explains: "When it smells like an unbathed infant," says the Director of the Aromatic Cheeses Department for the Limburg Käsewerks, "that is how we know the cheese is ready."
Posted by: flamingbanjo at April 4, 2006 11:39 AMYeah, I figured it was milk. We haven't entirely ferreted out the smell yet either. I got most of it, but on one side of her neck...It's ingrained. Perhaps ferrets would be helpful actually. Ha HAW!
Posted by: JtotheP at April 4, 2006 08:27 PMI think in fact this is exactly what Frank Zappa was referring to when he wrote the classic "Weasels Ripped My (Baby's) Flesh", but of course he didn't really want people to think badly of him for using a live ferret to cleanse Moon Unit's lactose encrusted neck, so he just dropped the "Baby" from the title.
Posted by: COMTE at April 5, 2006 10:50 AMEW. I look at big smart capable adult grownup people and marvel at how every one of them was once one of those little curd-encrusted larva, and it kind of blows my mind. Humans are evolutionary badasses, indeed.
Posted by: molly at April 5, 2006 05:36 PMIndeed, indeed.
Posted by: JtotheP at April 6, 2006 12:35 AMI seem to recall that there was once a market in human-milk cheese.
I wonder what ever happened with that.
Posted by: Joshua at April 8, 2006 05:12 AMOop. Question answered.
http://www.indrani.net/index.php?q=2006/03/breast_milk_cheese
Posted by: Joshua at April 8, 2006 05:14 AM