Esme had a pretty bad diaper rash a couple weeks ago. So bad, in fact that we took her to the ER because she was screaming inconsolably.We were prescribed Nystatin cream, and we put it on her twice a day (at night time and before her morning nap). We chose those times because those are her biggest stretches of sleep and since the Nystatin is so gunky we could not let it touch the diapers. If it did, it would coat them and any urine would roll off the diaper right down her leg. Our solution was to line her diapers in paper towel. It worked, as long as she wasn't very mobile. Try telling a nearly one year old to sit still! The rash went away, for the most part. However, in the past few days, the rash has been rearing its ugly head again.
This time around we decided not to take any chances and we are going to apply the ointment at every change. So what does that mean about our diapers? They are (sniff, sniff) shelved! I was at Wal-Mart this afternoon purchasing a trial size pack of diapers for the week.
My unsolicited advice to all cloth diaper mommas, especially those of little girls: have some flushable liners on hand in case of emergencies like this. Flushable liners are meant to catch feces, but I can only imagine how handy they would be in a situation like this. Unfortunately, we don't have any local cloth diaper stores around us, and I wasn't sure how long shipping would take, so disposable diapers it is!
I tried the trial pack of diapers from Walmart when I stripped my cloth diapers, and they leaked every.single.time. I hope you have better luck with them! I hope poor Esme feels better, poor girl :(
ReplyDeleteThanks Jo! We haven't had a problem thus far, but she hasn't gone more than 3 hours without a change. Let's see how they hold up through the night.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. At night, with the Walmart brand, I actually put 2 diapers on him, one on top of the other, and that even leaked, lol. I guess he was just a heavy wetter, because when we used the Walmart diapers, he was still nursing every 2-3 hours, and he'd get a diaper change before each nursing session. How'd they do overnight?
ReplyDeleteWell... she didn't have a diaper on this morning! We aren't sure if she took it off or if it fell off!
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