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SeptemberBaby_2

All quiet on the western front here today?!

I have just joined netmums and wondering if anyone has any experience with meeting other mums this way? Poppy is 5 months old now and I really feel I should be getting out more and having some structure to our day. I'm going to contact the SureStart centre too and see whats going on there.

melg1973

Hi all wondered if I could ask a question about baby wipes. I am 37 weeks pregnant with my first and confused/have baby brain! Have bought quite a lot of sensitive baby wipes whilst they've been on offers throughout my pregnancy only to find no mention of using wipes at all in all the info about newborns? Are they something that comes in later on?

Also I have been reading up today about topping and tailing and some mention lukewarm water, some cooled boiled water. Some use 2 or 3 cotton wool balls, some loads more. Conflicting info is confusing!

SusanCarter

I think they officially recommend only using cotton wool and water rather than wipes before three months. You just need to have a pot of water and change it every day. Wipes are handy if you're out or have a particularly messy nappy though. We were told to use cooled boiled water if you were washing their eyes but apart from that just tap water (at the appropriate temperature) is fine. We use flannels for bathing but I guess if you used cotton wool balls, it would just be up to you how many you think you need.

purplepatch

melg1973 wrote: »

Hi all wondered if I could ask a question about baby wipes. I am 37 weeks pregnant with my first and confused/have baby brain! Have bought quite a lot of sensitive baby wipes whilst they've been on offers throughout my pregnancy only to find no mention of using wipes at all in all the info about newborns? Are they something that comes in later on?

Also I have been reading up today about topping and tailing and some mention lukewarm water, some cooled boiled water. Some use 2 or 3 cotton wool balls, some loads more. Conflicting info is confusing!

I faffed about with cotton wool and water for a while with DD1. With DD2 I used sensitive wipes from day 1, even in the hospital. But you do get left alone with your second, you might well get a few disapproving looks from the midwives using wipes for number one lol, especially as they show you what to do at first. I'd use the cotton wool the hospital provide and then switch to your wipes when you get home.

feclmum

ive used wipes with all four of my children from day1 for nappy changes,through the day and night.when changing them completely (clothes,nappy etc) i used warm water and cotton wool in the morning and bathed every night!
when i had my last baby in hospital most new mums seemed to be using wipes for nappy change and never heard midwife object once after all it is your baby
good luck

SeptemberBaby_2

I have used Huggies Pure wipes since day one. There was a bowl of cotton wool balls provided but they were all still there when I left! I had a room of my own so the MW's couldn't keep check on me but SIL was on a ward and was told off! :eek:

I used lukewarm water from the tap to top and tail and used cotton wool balls. I was taught to clean each eye with a sepeate cotton wool ball to stop cross infection and then another to clean the face. And as many as appropriate for the bottom half .

Good luck with your pregnancy, mel!

x

Becles

When I had Charlotte I was told in the labour ward that current guidelines state you must only use cotton wool and water on baby and not wipes. However they were really stingy and would only give me tiny amounts of cotton wool, so I used wipes when they were not looking!

I asked my community midwife about it and she said there is nothing wrong with using the pure/sensitive wipes on a newborn, but she wasn't allowed to tell me that and should be telling me to use cotton wool and water.

You'll not break your baby using wipes, so if you feel happier using wipes then I would just use them.

SusanCarter

purplepatch wrote: »

I faffed about with cotton wool and water for a while with DD1. With DD2 I used sensitive wipes from day 1, even in the hospital. But you do get left alone with your second, you might well get a few disapproving looks from the midwives using wipes for number one lol, especially as they show you what to do at first. I'd use the cotton wool the hospital provide and then switch to your wipes when you get home.

Show you what to do? :rotfl: Ours didn't show us anything. The paedeatrician who came to check Alice used wipes and we used one of those cardboard sick bowls for water in hospital as they didn't provide anything. I use cotton balls mainly because they're cheaper (one wipe costs about the same as three cotton balls or five sheets of toilet paper). In the early days OH used to clean with cotton wool balls and then use a wipe as well.

purplepatch

SusanCarter wrote: »

Show you what to do? :rotfl: Ours didn't show us anything.

I know, it's terrible the way things are going. I noticed a big difference between first time in 2003 and 2006 when Iz was born as had to stay in both times due to having C sections. Not so much from my own point of view, I was glad to be left alone tbh, but the first time mums were being left to their own devices too. I ended up helping one of the girls at the changing mat next to me as she was panicking with a mid nappy change poo :rotfl:

izoomzoom

:eek: :eek:

I had my first two children in a third world country - but at a private hospital. DS1 we were given disposable nappies, but 2.5y later with DS2 we were given triangular shaped towelling for nappies.

Suppose I shouldn't complain because in this country they don't even give you that :rotfl: .