The next day his Mummy put him in a lemon dress with a white broderie anglaise pinafore over it. Of course, it came with matching bonnet and nappy cover. This bonnet had a wide lace brim and really restricted his vision to directly in front.
A play-pen was assembled in his room. Katey Hudson placed rattles and blocks into his pen. His mother led him in and closed the side. They took photos as he played with his baby toys.
Over the next couple of days they had more baby dresses for him to wear. He spent his time between the pen, cot and high-chair. Another day a rocking horse was produced and he was photographed sitting on it.
One afternoon his mum came in at the end of his nap. She smiled down on him. He was quite used to having his soother in all the time now and his dolly was clasped tightly to his chest. His nappied bottom stuck up beneath his pink nightie.
She woke him gently. He blinked and stretched and slowly turned over. She noticed that his nappy was wet. “Oh honey, did you wet yourself during your nap?” He looked down in surprise. He could just about remember half waking and deciding not to bother waking up fully but just wetting himself and nodding off again. He was mortified. “It’s alright honey, don’t worry, it’s perfectly natural”, she chirped happily.
He wet himself just before bed time and she changed him. He complicitly raised his bottom for her to slide his nappy under. She pulled it up around his bottom. He noticed something different. “Hhhmmpppffff?” “It’s a thicker nappy honey. So you can wet yourself when you’re asleep and I don’t have to get up and change you in the middle of the night.”
“Nnnnggghhhh!” he complained. She pulled his plastic pants up over his thicker nappy. She put his nightie on and sat him up in the high-chair. She produced his bed-time bottle. He frowned and tried to resist it. It was sure to make him wet himself during the night. “Don’t be silly dear, you’ll be in your cot for nearly 12 hours, you have to have a big drink.” She pushed the teat in and held it firmly. He reluctantly started suc-king.
She put him in his cot and locked the side in place. “We won’t be needing this”, she said taking away the baby monitor. “Sleep tight and I’ll see you in the morning.”
He sat slouched in his cot. He knew he would wet his nappy in a few hours but was going to have to stay in the nappy until morning. He lay down and eventually fell asleep.
He woke early in the morning. His nappy was a little wet. He had obviously wet it in his sleep and the thicker nappy had worked up to a point.
In the morning, his mother came in all chirpy and made light of his wet nappy. She changed him into another thick nappy. When he groaned she told him that she might as well keep him in the thicker nappy all the time now. That way, she wouldn’t have to change him on every wetting.
She put him in his original pink baby dress and, after his morning bottle and rusks, put him in his pen. There was no sign of any new torment for him today. He wondered why he still had to stay in the nappies, baby dress and play-pen so. He supposed that she would have another outfit for him the next day.
But he was dressed in his lilac dress the next day and had another uneventful day of bottles, feeds, naps, nappy changes and playing with his blocks and rattles.