Buying for our baby (due oct)

mishkanorman

mildred1978 wrote: »

Just to say that I'd never ever put Vaseline, baby oil or sun cream anywhere near a small child. Horrible substances (full of carcinogenic chemicals for 1, and we get vitamin D from the sun). Organic sunflower oil is perfect for baby massage.

You don't need all the feeding paraphernalia for weaning if you do baby led weaning (they eat what you eat, not pur!es).

Apart from the cupboard under the sink we haven't babyproofed anything. Taught my son to come downstairs on his tummy so that he can do it safely. He's not fallen down the stairs once.

Do you realise how rude your post sounds in reference to the person you've quoted ?

Everyone does things differently, the OP wants suggestions from all of us so to dismiss someone elses opinion as it differs from yours seems pointlessly abrupt.

Bluebell1000

mildred1978 wrote: »

Just to say that I'd never ever put Vaseline, baby oil or sun cream anywhere near a small child. Horrible substances (full of carcinogenic chemicals for 1, and we get vitamin D from the sun). Organic sunflower oil is perfect for baby massage.

Lanolin makes my skin react so I've not been using the Sudocrem for nappy rash (not that we needed much so far anyway) but our health visitor recommended Vaseline as a non-lanolin based alternative.

We also used olive oil during the first couple of weeks when LO had quite dry skin. Basting the baby with oil seemed quite surreal but it did help his skin settle down.

mildred1978

Bluebell1000 wrote: »

Lanolin makes my skin react so I've not been using the Sudocrem for nappy rash (not that we needed much so far anyway) but our health visitor recommended Vaseline as a non-lanolin based alternative.

We also used olive oil during the first couple of weeks when LO had quite dry skin. Basting the baby with oil seemed quite surreal but it did help his skin settle down.

My midwife suggested we use Diprobase on my LO (had dry skin on his feet and hands due to being severely overdue. LO has always been a thumb sucker, and had appalling diarhea (sp) after licking it off. It's then that I looked into the ingredients in stuff promoted for children.

mildred1978

mishkanorman wrote: »

Do you realise how rude your post sounds in reference to the person you've quoted ?

Everyone does things differently, the OP wants suggestions from all of us so to dismiss someone elses opinion as it differs from yours seems pointlessly abrupt.

I didn't dismiss anything. But someone reading that post might think it a good idea to use those things on children. I thought it important to provide the alternative view.

mishkanorman

mildred1978 wrote: »

I didn't dismiss anything. But someone reading that post might think it a good idea to use those things on children. I thought it important to provide the alternative view.

Sorry but to me its making you seem rather petty, that poster took a lot of time to share what worked for them, as others have in the thread (and you've provided an alternative view to many of those as well.)

As the OP stated "what worked for you and what did you find a waste of money" I would presume they would rather we all state what works for us rather than argue the toss over why we shouldn't do things !?

Aimless

mildred1978 wrote: »

My midwife suggested we use Diprobase on my LO (had dry skin on his feet and hands due to being severely overdue. LO has always been a thumb sucker, and had appalling diarhea (sp) after licking it off. It's then that I looked into the ingredients in stuff promoted for children.

1) Diprobase isn't promoted for children, it is prescribed to people who need it.
*Edit to add* I see you can also buy it without prescription. It may be safe for children, but isn't labelled as specifically for them.

2) It says external use only on the label. If you knew he thumb sucked, wouldn't you put gloves on or not put it on him?

I always use sun cream if we're going to be outside for a long time. In case you hadn't noticed, excess sun also causes cancer.

mildred1978

Aimless wrote: »

1) Diprobase isn't promoted for children, it is prescribed to people who need it.
*Edit to add* I see you can also buy it without prescription. It may be safe for children, but isn't labelled as specifically for them.

2) It says external use only on the label. If you knew he thumb sucked, wouldn't you put gloves on or not put it on him?

I always use sun cream if we're going to be outside for a long time. In case you hadn't noticed, excess sun also causes cancer.

My MIDWIFE promoted the use of Diprobase.

I applied it once, and he got a bad tummy from it. After that I stopped listening to the midwives and did my own research.

In 23 months I haven't needed to use sun cream on my LO. But then I dont keep him out in the sun for hours on end. A couple of hours (not between 11am and 3pm) aren't harmful in this country, especially with shade/clothes/hats on. I like him to have at least 20mins outside most days to make sure he's getting vitamin D.

Aimless

Your midwife suggested you try it, promoting for children suggests deliberately targeted advertising insinuating your baby really needed it, like they do with toddler milk.

You're avoiding the question, if you knew he'd suck his thumb, why did you not use gloves or avoid using something marked 'external use only'. I'm sure it is perfectly safe if you don't eat it!

Everyone is different, with my family colouring we'd be toast after two hours in the sun in summer.

Blue_Monkey

Hi there,

Congrats on the baby, it's such an exciting time, I hope you have a good pregnancy and enjoy the magic of it all

There's some really good ideas on here, and I don't have much to add. We were the same last year (our baby was born in December) and wanted to be prepared and get all we needed, but it's so true that you really don't need a lot...

I think the best money we spent was on NCT classes. Not so much for the info side of things (though this was useful and interesting) but more for the social side of things - meeting people who will be having a baby at pretty much exactly the same time as you can be invaluable. All 8 of us in our class have stayed in touch and it's been a lifeline to be in the same boat all together.

I'm not sure what you're planning birth-wise etc but I'd also highly recommend doing a hypnobirthing course.

Oh and we love our Ikea cot. We've taken the side off and wedged it up against our bed so that middle-of-the-night-feeds are easy-peasy (I breastfeed our DD laying down so distruption for us all is minimal). We used the moses downstairs in the lounge for naps / somewhere to put her, but didn't find it an essential as such. In fact we packed it up and lent it to a friend when DD was 10 weeks old - and just goes to show everyone's different as my friend said they've found it invaluable.

You'll find your own way and that's what's exciting Good luck and enjoy!

BM x

koalamummy

I can totally relate to the sun screen Aimless! My younger son has exactly the same colouring as OH, and without sun screen OH gets burned as early in the year as March. I have a brother who was never burned by the sun at any point in his life yet still developed skin cancer in his early 20's therefore my children never go outdoors without any on.