About an hour after Carter woke up, he had a VERY stinky diaper (which I figured may of been because he seemed to be getting sick). I took him upstairs to his room to change him. About half way through his diaper change, an alarm started going off. I thought it was the smoke detector, but Brian discovered it was our Carbon Monoxide / Explosive Gas Alarm. It was saying "GAS" on the display and beeping VERY loudly every other second.
I finished diapering Carter and took him downstairs. Our heat, fireplace, and hot water heater use natural gas, but we didn't smell any natural gas. We figured the detector was just having a false alarm, but we went ahead and opened up the windows just in case. We took the batteries out of the alarm, reset it, and put it back upstairs in the hall where we keep it plugged it.
The alarm didn't go off again but we were still a little worried that maybe we just weren't smelling the natural gas and maybe we should call our gas company to come check it out.
We decided to pull up the instructions for the alarm online to see if there was any information about possible false positive alarms. In the instructions we found a comment about not placing the detector above diaper pails because high amounts of methane gas can cause a gas alarm.
So, apparently, Carter's diaper was SO STINKY that he set of the explosive gas alarm! That was one yucky diaper!
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