Things for baby?

[xeney]

We did not use any lotions or soaps or diaper creams or other goo for the first eight months. We still use those things sparingly at a year. We've also never used diaper wipes -- we use cloth wipes with plain water, or those disposable wash cloths from the hospital, also with plain water. We use a mix of cloth diapers and Seventh Generation disposables and she's never had diaper rash. (My husband and I have really sensitive skin so we were super careful about these things. I get blisters from using aloe vera products, to give you an idea.)

Seventh Generation disposables are the only ones I can stand. The others we've tried all have perfumes that smell absolutely awful when the baby pees. If the deodorant makes baby pee smell worse, it is not worth the effort, you know?

Now that we are using soaps and lotions, we don't worry so much about "hypoallergenic" or "natural" stuff because I've learned from my own bad experience that it's mostly a crock. We just use very small amounts of whatever product we use. We use Suave shampoo/conditioner for kids about twice a week, an amount about 1/4 the size of a dime. We use Aveeno baby soaps, no-perfume Lubriderm lotion (not baby lotion), and Banana Boat tear-free sunscreen for babies. (Tear-free is more important for sunscreen than for shampoo, in my opinion.)

The only one of those things we use every day is the sunscreen. Everything else is as needed. I have a pretty grubby baby sometimes, but whatever, it's not like she's shoveling horse manure. She's healthy and has not had any skin issues, which I consider a victory given the genes she got.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Hopefully the baby in question will be breastfeeding for a while, but later on...

The Happy Baby Food Grinder!
I raised my two girls by just grinding the same food we ate and I never bought even a single jar of prepared/preserved "baby food".
Just throw in fresh peaches, apples, cereal, chicken, cooked veggies, potatoes, pasta,....whatever. And it's VERY simple and easy to wash- just pull the two pieces apart and wash quickly with a hot soapy brush. Or throw in the dishwasher.
I LOVED my Happy Baby Food Grinder when my daughters started eating stuff other than breast milk- and it helped produce two beautiful happy healthy babies.

[AlwayzOnDaMove]

BleeckerSt_Girl, speaking of breastfeeding, I am still amazed at the female body. We literally become cows and produce our own milk . I will always be amazed at that.
I've never payed attention to cloth diapers, but saw pictures of them recently and they look comfortable and cute. I saw the one with the snaps. There is a new product called mom to mom. Everything is made for moms by moms.
As for the organic things or the things that claim to be organic, I don't really trust any of that stuff. Since alot of people are going green...products are claiming they're green too.

[Natural Beauty]

yeah, like "simple green' and 'green clorox' what a crock. just like clorox burts bees....
i clean with microfibres called enjo. works pretty darn skippy.

to be certified organic or to use certified organic ingredients is a HUGE process.

Green Shreen, we need to read labels to be sure they are good ingredients.

What just kills me is for a product to be able to say they are Natural; they only have to have 1% natural ingredients. How scary is that!

ok...soapbox over.

[Tuckervill]

My DIl uses cloth diapers and wool outer pants. I don't know where you get them, but she does knit the wool pants herself. The lanolin in the wool keeps the outside dry. They're not any harder to deal with than regular diapers, but there is the washing that requires baking soda for the ammonia.

Karen

[Natural Beauty]

My DIl uses cloth diapers and wool outer pants. I don't know where you get them, but she does knit the wool pants herself. The lanolin in the wool keeps the outside dry. They're not any harder to deal with than regular diapers, but there is the washing that requires baking soda for the ammonia.

Karen

Karen, I had to laugh. My dad and I were just talking about this the other day. He has nightmares from the wool diapers his mom put him in from back in the day. I asked him why he didn't get cashmire nappies since he is so special. LOL!!!!!

[Tuckervill]

I think if he can remember his diapers he potty trained a LITTLE LATE! lol.

The diapers she uses are not wool on the inside. The liners are cotton or whatever--absorbent. The covers are wool, and it's the nice soft kind of wool that felts up really nice.

Karen

[Irulan]

My DIl uses cloth diapers and wool outer pants. I don't know where you get them, but she does knit the wool pants herself. The lanolin in the wool keeps the outside dry. They're not any harder to deal with than regular diapers, but there is the washing that requires baking soda for the ammonia.

Karen

I never used baking soda, just wash n dry. Is that something you are supposed to do with wool?

[Tuckervill]

I'm sure it depends on how long you go before you wash them. She always had lots of them and only washed them once a week. You know what a diaper pail smells like!

My other friend only started using baking soda after her baby got older and was eating real food. Things change.

Karen