Sixty Thousand Diapers Later
Change even the tiniest baby at a waist-high table, so you won’t get a backache. Lay the diaper over him, for an infant often wets during a change and a boy is liable to catch you foursquare. Slip the diaper he’ll wear under his bottom and it it’s a cloth one, twist it at the crotch, for double thickness and a tighter fit. If you pin the back over the front, it stays on better.
Wash the baby’s bottom each time you change him, either at the table or over the bathroom sink. Use a soapy cloth to wash, a wet one to rinse and pat the skin dry with a towel. Washing the skin removes bacteria – the main cause of rash – which is over of the baby’s most common and least necessary problems. It is also cyclical, since the saltiness of the urine burns any chafed skin, making the rash worse and the fussing more. Waterproof pants intensify it for they hold heat and help bacteria breed faster. Use them when you must or the wonderfully convenient, expensive disposable diapers.
Another way to prevent a rash is to smear the clean area with corn starch or lanolin. A rash is also less likely if your child goes without diapers for a half hour each day. Summer sunshine is especially good for the skin.
When you use cloth diapers rinse a dirty one immediately, for no one likes to find one soaking in the toilet. Wring it and put it in a plastic bag with the wet ones. If you wash diapers ever day or two, they need no soaking and neither the job nor the smell will overwhelm you. For a young baby, diapers should go through the washer twice – the second time without soap – as this residue often is too caustic for a baby’s skin and can cause a rash. The rays of the sun and the high heat of the dryer will kill any remaining bacteria.
Expect to diaper your baby for nearly three years, although a two year old should be encouraged to get his own diaper when he needs it and to put the wet one in the hamper for you. This an early step in toilet training.
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Author: Beatrice Brown
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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