Welcome to pediatrics

When I was a nursing student, my first day of my PICU rotation, I was cuddling a baby on my lap, feeding him a bottle and thinking how sweet he was. That was until I felt the really warm wetness soaking through my pant leg and looked down to see diarrhea exploding from the kid's diaper. The other nurses just laughed at me when I called for help and said "welcome to pediatrics!" There's been an awful lot of body fluids of various sorts on me since. Thank god for scrubs that are easy to wash in hot water and disposable gloves!