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Scenario

• Marshall and Lily are finally going back to work for the first time after having Marvin three months ago. They are both reluctant to leave their beloved Marvin, but they know that it must be done. Their friends Ted and Robin have agreed to help take care of Marvin while his parents are at work with Robin looking after him in the mornings and Ted in the afternoon. Marshall and Lily have gone through much trouble the past three months to ensure that Marvin has kept a strict daily schedule and want to keep that routine going. To that end, they have created a very detailed and thorough daily schedule that is anything but straightforward. They wanted to go through the schedule with Ted and Robin beforehand but the two of them went out for a sandwich and weren’t able to meet.
  Lily and Marshall wake up at 5:30 AM to get ready for work and get Marvin ready for the day. They start by checking his diaper and find that he needs to be changed. After he is in a new diaper, they write down the “quality” of his dirty diaper for future reference and check that they have enough diapers left in the box to last through the day. Robin arrives at their apartment and, after saying their goodbyes, Marshall and Lily leave to work. Robin has just finished working her early morning shift of work and is quite tired. Additionally, she is not very comfortable around babies and does not know very much about them either. An hour into the morning, Marvin starts crying and Robin realizes that she needs to change Marvin. However, she has never changed a baby before and doesn’t know where to begin. As Marvin wails, she goes on Google to find a video about changing a diaper. After watching a few videos, she makes her best effort at the task. She manages to finish the job but goes through nearly all of the diapers in the box in the process and leaves only one. She looks at the schedule and realizes that she has missed his late morning feeding and hurries to get that done as well. Looking at the schedule, she sees that she needs to burp Marvin as well, something that she wouldn’t have thought of doing. After the feeding, Ted comes in to take over for the afternoon.
  In her rush to leave, she fails to tell Ted that she fed Marvin late and that they are running low on diapers. A couple of hours later, Marvin needs to be changed again. Ted, always the overachiever, has made sure to familiarize himself with how to change a baby and uses the last diaper in the box. He makes sure to text Marshall and Lily that they are out of diapers at the apartment. Referencing the schedule, Ted tries to feed Marvin but finds that he is not hungry which he finds quite odd since he did not get the info about Marvin being fed late. Lily gets back to their apartment at 4:30 with a box of diapers. As Ted leaves, he tells Lily that Marvin should be getting hungry sometime soon as he didn’t eat earlier. Marshall returns at 6:30 PM in time for dinner also with a box of diapers. When he comes back, Lily has just finished feeding Marvin and hasn’t had time to start dinner. They see that Ted has written down some notes on the consistency of Marvin’s previous changing, but don’t see anything from Robin. Lily calls her and asks but she doesn’t really remember much other than brown and smelly. While Lily is on the phone with Robin, Marshall looks at the schedule and tries to feed Marvin. He never got the message from Lily about the shift in Marvin’s eating schedule. After trying to feed Marvin and giving up, Marshall asks Lily if she knows what’s wrong with the baby and she explains what happened. At this point, Marshall and Lily don’t know Marvin’s new eating schedule and are not even sure if he has been getting the proper amount of sleep. With the genes of a Minnesota family, Marvin is a quickly-growing baby and will not be able to use all of the new diapers Lily and Marshall just bought. After spending the night waking up at irregular hours, Marshall and Lily decide that one of them will have to stay home and quit their job because they can’t trust their friends to take care of Marvin without disrupting his regular schedule.

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