Baby Skin & Body CareA blog on baby care

esp if you breastfeed (including bathing and play/cuddling time). Also when you’re changing baby’s poop diapers, how many wipes do you use in one session? Do you always use soap and water when possible? How many baby wash clothes do you use? (particulary if you have a boy; or if you have a girl your answers are still welcome of course =]) Thank you.
9 months next week with my perfect little boy

I need a mild soap for my face,
since I have cystic acne & everything else
irritates my face really bad.
I have Johnson’s Vanilla Oatmeal Babywash.
I used it for my face a couple minutes ago..
Do you think it will irritate my face ?
Will it make anything better ?
I just need a new face routine…
What do you think of the babywash and then
put on Nivea Soft Face Cream on it ?
Or do you think I should just put the Vanilla Oatmean Baby Lotion on it ?
Gahh, Idk what to do.

I am new to all this…I am still using a Johnson & Johnson type all-in-one shampoo/body ‘baby’ wash for him. It’s tear free and gentle. I am not sure when parents start bathing their children with something else? He covers his eyes with a towel when I rinse his hair. What product do you use? Should it still be tear free? I tried bar soap once but it was too drying. As I am running out of the baby wash, I am considering switching…based on your feedback.
Thanks!

Do you find that your always going to the grocery store or target/walmart for one thing or another every few days? I’m seriously at target so much I should work there lol! For either diapers, or formula, or dish soap or baby wipes or shampoo, the list goes on and on. I’m always making lists and going but it seems that I always forget a few things, then have to begin another list. What about you?

My son has been doing his “army crawl” for like a month now (7 months he stared) and now is crawling an pulls himself to stand. He is constatly on the go go go and my husband and I noticed he has blisters and loose skin on his hands and feet (on the bottom side) doesn’t help he’s teething either and constantly chewing on them. Any ideas what I can do? He HATES socks on his hands but have to so i can soak them in aveeno baby lotion. Just started the lotion tonight, do I have to use socks to cover his hands after putting lotion on them? I do it b/c of him sucking on his fingers/toes all the time.

My son has been doing his “army crawl” for like a month now (7 months he stared) and now is crawling an pulls himself to stand. He is constatly on the go go go and my husband and I noticed he has blisters and loose skin on his hands and feet (on the bottom side) doesn’t help he’s teething either and constantly chewing on them. Any ideas what I can do? He HATES socks on his hands but have to so i can soak them in aveeno baby lotion. Just started the lotion tonight, do I have to use socks to cover his hands after putting lotion on them? I do it b/c of him sucking on his fingers/toes all the time.

The bottom of my feet tends to get hard and ashy, and even after getting out the shower and putting on lotion, it goes back to that way. I also get calluses. Anyone know how to solve this problem?

Okay, this may be long, but I am a 16 year girl who WAS thinking about having a baby. Not anymore, or, for a long time. I used to think, when I have my baby, she is going to be HOOKED UP! But, yeah, this may look impossible, but I added up everything that the baby would need, and included some things that would be used to spoil her. And I forgot to add toys but this is how much for all of these things…
Changing pad
changing pad cover
infant-todler baby bath
baby room curtains
playtex bottles
playtex bottle nipples for one year
pacifiers for two months
Formula for eight months
food of all kinds, 0-4 years
potty top (a dora seat for about 2-4 year olds)
potty
baby wipes for about a year (want 2 potty train early)
baby utensils
bibs
high chair
3-in-1 car seat
infant seat
infant seat base
stroller
diapers for about two years
diaper bag
crib bedding set
crib matress/pad
rail cover
soother
Dresser for room-quantity:2
baby gum cleanser
baby toothbrush
ear thermometer
aspirator
baby Q-tips
baby brush and comb
UV ray hat
onsies set
baby wrap
pajamas
baby bodyuits
dreft baby detergent
baby socks (gets more specific)
outfits(gets more specific)
elmo bath set
wash cloths
bubble bath
baby washes
baby lotions
baby powders
baby sunblock
baby faceblock
diaper rash cream
night pull up’s for about 10 months
day pull up’s for about 10 months
baby shampoo rise cup
baby shampoo
baby detangler
baby hair dress (i’m black, for black babies)
snuggle blanket
baby nail clippers
baby gum massager
Okay, here is what I bought(for fake)
three dresses
12 outfits
14 shirts
3 sweater/jackets
7 bottoms/pants/jeans
3 packages of socks
11 pairs of shoes
1 extra special suit
16 pairs of earrings (EXPENSIVE!!!!)
2 bracelets (VERY EXPENSIVE, 300 dollars each)
2 rings (OKAY PIRCE)
and 2 necklaces (A LITTLE EXPENSIVE)
And now, for the price of ALL of that, once again it may look impossible but it’s very possible!!!
$316,863,314,395.27 !!!!!!!!!!!!

Me and my boyfriend have a 7 week old son and he is not helpful at nights, I guess I expected that we would do the whole take turn things in regard to when the baby cries or needs feeding or diaper changes and what not but I could not get him to help me out. I had a C-Section and was in quite a bit of pain and I would tell him how bad my tummy was hurting when I was feeding my baby in the middle of the night and my boyfriend would say “I’m sorry” then turn around and go back to sleep. After weeks and weeks of arguments I came to realize that I wasn’t going to get that help that I expected so now all I have him do is make me bottles. So we have been doing this and its been okay.
However I am still on maternity leave so I am living a stay at home life right now and its not easy, I have a super fussy baby and its hard to get anything done during the day then the baby wakes up so early and I am exhausted through out the day, I don’t have time to catch up with my sleep when the baby naps because I have to clean up the house or get dressed myself or get the babies diaper bag ready incase we have to go somewhere so no time. My bf works all day and when he comes home he says he’s tired and his back hurts (same here I tell him) so then I keep the baby untill he takes his shower then he will take him but then do I get to rest? No because I then have to finish cleaning up and make dinner then as soon as I finish making dinner I have to give the baby a bath and dried freshend up with baby lotion then my bf makes him a bottle and I feed him and put him to sleep and it normally takes him from 30 mins to 1 1/2 hours so then I can finally put my son down and eat dinner but sometimes its too late so I don’t and go to bed myself to try and catch up on sleep.
Then in the middle of the night I get up change the baby my bf makes the bottle then goes back to sleep while I feed him and try to get him to go back to sleep and that has been taking a couple of hours as well, then I finally get back to sleep then my son wakes up at around 6 and I have to get up with him change him feed him and stay up. My bf then gets up at 6:30am and leaves for the day at 6:45 and is gone until 6:pm and thats my routine.
Today I’m a little upset because I understand that its the weeked and my bf gets up early everyday so hes tired however so am I and I am more exhausted than he is. There are weekends when he does get up with the baby and lets me sleep and believe me thats helpful but other times he’s just plain old selfish. Like this morning the baby woke up at 7:45 and I couldnt get him to go back to sleep, I kept telling my bf how exhausted I was because the baby woke up at 4:45 last night and didn’t go back to sleep until 6:30am I figured my bf would get up with us but no he didn’t so then I got up fed him and after an hour got him back to sleep but in his swing so I couldnt leave him in the living room and go back to sleep, I then went back to the room to tell my bf if he could sleep in the couch for me so I could get an hour at least of a comfty sleep and he got upset because he said he was sleeping peacefully and was disturbed… What the heck I am disturbed all the time, he really gets on my nerves. So I went back to the couch. Now its 11:45 and I was hoping that maybe he would have some kinda of heart and come out after an hour or so to let me go back to sleep but no he’s still sleeping like a baby. I’m just so irritated on how inconsiderate he is. He has no compassion, Its like he wants to be helpful but he doesnt help hes just too selfish.
I guess I need to just stop assuming that he would be helpful and just come to realize that he’s never going to be. Are all men (husbands/boyfriends) like this when a new baby is born or are there really helpful men out there, I’m starting to think that there arn’t and that I need to just suck it up because its my job. I love my son to death so I have no problem but I didn’t think it was supposed to be like that I thought it as 50/50 but but now I have come to realize its 90/10.

i have so much questionss.
1. Is cleaning your makeup brush with shampoo called deep cleaning? if not, what exactly is required to “deep” clean your brushes?
2. Is it bad to clean your brush with shampoo everyday?
3. What to use to clean face makeup brushes everyday? if you use baby shampoo to clean your brushes everyday, wouldnt that be classified as “deep” cleaning your brushes?
thanks so much.!!! im soooooo lost. ><
oh, and youre here to help me, im here to help you too. really appreciate ittt