My wife has psoriasis as well. I have prett fair and dry skin. Our daughter has always been glazed like a ham after every bath w/ lotions, baby oils and other assorted things. Her skin is prone to dry patches and some redness, but has hardly ever had diaper rash. She did have several patches of dry skin on her face, which we deduced was caused by the washcloths we were washing her face with after meals [possibly caused by detergent]. We started using paper towels and that cleared up. Earlier I posted that proactive treatments are the best prevention and I'll stick witht hat statement. Any redness, dryness, or otherwise noticable change in skin texture is treated by us. Even with all the genes going against her, our daughter has great skin.
Lucky. My son is 18 mos. and he STILL wakes up at least once a night. I've been a zombie for a year and half.
Triple Paste rulez. A few smears of that on a baby's behind and you'll have no more rash. I even lube my car with it.
One of our children does the dry skin patch battle. It afflicts his face and his fingers. It really pains me to see the thick, reddened, cracking skin on his fingers. He knows to use a lot of lotion on his hands, but the face thing is tough to be proactive about
You know you have kids when you say to your spouse "I want to sleep with you" and mean it only in the literal sense.
or you look at the clock, are shocked to see it's already 9 p.m. and ask each other 'what are doing staying up so late?'
Good heavens, that is so true. I used to think I was an early riser until I had a son who wakes up at 6:30 every morning. Now that it's no longer my choice, I resent being up at that time, even though I used to wake up between 6 and 7 o'clock every day. Back then, darn it, I was being responsible. Now I'm practically being abused to get awaken at that time.
Oliver finally started sleeping through the night over the weekend (with short crying spells around 2:00 AM). Man, that ruled.
I forgot about this thread. She got sick in January for about 3 weeks and totally slid back to waking up every few hours. We tried the pacifier, but every time that fell out, she'd wake up again. So this past weekend, we started the process of weaning her from it. Friday night, cried for nearly an hour before sleeping through the night. Saturday night, cried for more than an hour before falling asleep, only to wake up later. Last night, cried for a while, fell asleep, woke up when a tree branch hit our roof (no damage, just noise). We will win this battle of the wills. It's going to take a long time though. Sachin
I got very lucky in the fact that my son never cared much for a pacifier. He didn't miss it at all. He gave up the bottle pretty easily too.
Without even trying we have weaned our daughter off the bottle. She simply doesn't want to drink from one anymore. A sippy cup is more than enough for her. Now, her thumb that she can't be without when it comes to sleepy time.
Lucky so far on that one too. He's not a thumbsucker. He's still a really light sleeper though and he's almost two.
If they want a pacifier, give it to them. Some may switch to a thumb, which can do some tooth-allignment damage. In either case, there are a lot worse problems. Most kids stop using their thumb by middle school, and most wouldn't be caught dead doing it after they hit elementary school. There are more important battles to fight.
never used the pacifier and the bottle was gone in one try. we just stopped giving him a bottle, gave him a sippy cup instead and he never skipped a beat.
Some of the newer kids cups have rubber "spouts" that allow for suckling. I think that helped us get past the bottle quickly. As soon as I noticed her identifying what a pacifier was and intimating that she wanted it, I took it away. Immediately. Out of the blue, in the middle of the day. She cried for like 30 minutes and never gave a s- after that, not once. She does have--and always had--the routine of going to bed with a receiving blanket. She teethed on one and now it's become a habit. About the only habit left to break at 2.2 years old. I'm dreading the tantrum she is going to throw over it.
So...we have started this new routine to get our 15 month old out of her newly developed "seperation-anxiety sleeping problem" Before, when she was younger, we would have dinner, bath, book reading, and a bottle. This would lead to her falling asleep on us downstairs and carrying her to her crib to sleep. Went wonderfully for about 3-4 months. Then the teething started and was immediately followed by a winter of many, many colds, which kept her out of a normal sleeping pattern. Anyhow *knocks on wood* her colds have subsided for the moment and we have started this new routine of saying "nighty night" and taking her upstairs after a bath etc. and waiting for her to relax then putting her in her crib and waiting for her to put her self to sleep. In the middle of the night when she wakes up (after about 6-7 hours of sleep) we simply enter her room and calm her down without taking her out of her crib. This approach produced massive crying fits at first, but in the past 2 days has really started to work. She gets her self back to sleep pretty easily now. Of course now that I said this she will not sleep for a week.
Sounds great, Pints! I have been through various stages of sleep deprivation with my twins. We separated them for a while when they refused to sleep in cribs, but that left my 5-yr-old unwilling to share a room and hence sleeping in the play room. Now they're back together and we have a nice little routine: bath, stories, whatever, put them in bed, give them a drink... Then they play and refuse to sleep. Then one of them falls asleep and the other climbs on top of them, making them cry. We take the sleepy one out and put him in OUR bed (which he now knows is his real bed, not that one we start him in every night...) Then the other one cries and refuses to sleep. We pity him and pick him up, at which point he squirms down and goes running down the hall to play, at which point we stop pitying him and put him back in bed and ignore him until he eventually falls asleep. In the meantime, I get sleepy and can't go to bed because my bed is occupied until the other baby sleeps... It may not be ideal, but at least we have our routine down. Life with twins is awesome. For more thrills, read my latest blog entry, "Barenaked Babies," at jhm2.blogspot.com.
Sleep Update. She is still doing well. Seems the "plan" worked well. She now sleeps from 7 or 8 until 5 or 6, every night. Course she has entered the "terrible twos" earlier than expected.
we've been lucky to avoid the terrible two's. of course, with that cocky statement I probably just jinxed myself and he'll go and fingerpaint the house. but so far, so good.
Speaking of painting the house, we've learned to lock away the crayons until further notice. Thank heaven for Magic Erasers.
Aquadoodle and water pens. Our daughter has hit this stage where she takes off her own diaper when wet or dirty. It's nice to see that she is getting cognizant of bathroom habits, but it's bad when we have to chase a naked baby around the house. Especially one who flings poo!
get the washable crayons. we haven't found anything they don't come off of yet. it's not like he's coloring the house, but he's got crayons on the floor/table/coffee table etc. when he's been coloring and accidently left the paper. the work pretty well. the washable markers seem to come off his hands, arms and legs pretty well, too.