Let's say you have a kid. When the kid goes to bed, he wears those one-piece footed pajamas. Additionally, he or she typically sleeps very well through the night. And your kid almost never poops in the middle of the night, he/she is a late morning pooper.

While we're talking about the poop, it should also be noted that the poop consistency changes quite often. It could be messy today, tomorrow it's little hard poop nuggets.

So you typically get up with your kid in the morning. You typically go in the room, take the kid out of their crib, put him/her down on the changing table. Note that you have not turned on the lights in the room, because you're hoping with all your might that your kid will go back to sleep with a fresh diaper. It happens sometimes.

With the kid on the changing table, you do a quick poop sniff check. You don't smell anything, so you continue (if there were to be evidence of poop, you would certainly turn the light on). Over the past 12 months, you've mastered the diaper change in the darkness, so you go ahead and whip the old diaper off, throw a new one on, and sit with your kid for a moment in the rocking chair. You kind of think you smell poop, but you know it's not coming from your kid, since you just changed his/her diaper. You assume it's the diaper pail and move on.

You put the kid down and go get your own breakfast. Five minutes later, the kid is up again. You finish your breakfast, then get your kid up and bring him/her downstairs. After 45 minutes of playing, the kid seems hungry, so you put him/her in his/her high chair for breakfast. You put down some Cheerios on the tray and then go prepare whatever it is you're feeding the kid for breakfast.

As you feed your kid breakfast, you still smell poop. You double check to make sure it's not on your hands. You double check the kid's butt area. In doing so, you pass by the kid's feet. The sinking feeling in your stomach is coming from the realization that your child has been playing around your living room for an hour with poop on his/her feet.

You rush the child up to the changing table. You examine the foot of the pajamas, you don't see any poop on the outside. Thank goodness. You take off the pajamas, and you see a poop nugget roaming freely inside of your child's sleepwear. It must have fallen out during the diaper change in the dark. After disposing of the nugget, you determine that the pajamas are still clean enough to wear. You dress the kid and carry on with your day.

Should this scenario happen to you, just know that this does not affect your status as a good parent, and it's not your fault.