its got to be the cream

I really should change the name of this blog to "Tales of Tobo's Butt". We were back on the phone with the nurse Sat morning. It looked like Tobo had a reaction to the diaper cream so I was out at the drug store at 9am getting an even kinder, gentler butt creams for Tobo. The nurse also suggested aveeno oatmeal bath treatment 2 or 3 times a day. She kindly added to that, I know how hard that is with a newborn. (thank you for realizing bath time takes a half hour to wind up for and a half hour to wind down from, plus clean up)

But we now have a wide array of cream options. So this is my review of diaper rash creams in hope that someone else doesn't have to go through what we have with this rash of d00m:

• Destin - BAD - coated the cloth diapers in cod oil and very zincy in smell
• Burt's Baby Bee Diaper Ointment- BAD - caused his toosh to become red-er, the sores worse, and still managed to coat the diapers in random flower oils. I suspect our hard water didn't help.
  

Boudreaux's Butt Paste - OK - didn't have a good reaction or a bad reaction to this, but does have mineral oil in it, so probably could coat the diapers if we gave it a shot.

Lanolin from Lansinoh - GOOD - current winner, totally neutral ingredients (no zinc) and is suppose to "melt" out of the diapers in the wash...we'll see.

Aveeno diaper rash cream - ???- haven't tried it but have it on back up but does have mineral oil in it.

I'm beginning to suspect that either our water is hard enough that it is complicating things and/or the medication tobo is on has a cod oil base. (He's on nystatin) We will once again be stripping the pocket diapers since we are having a pee-ilarious weekend, what with the leaks and all. Saturday Tobo's diaper managed to leak in his bed, on the changing table and on Paul's baby blanket through to our mattress pad. Fortunately we caught it in time before it soaked all the way through to our loverly bed. (best mattress in the world!) I am about to invest in a set of bum geniuses..assuming that it isn't design but chemicals that is causing them to leak. Though honestly I'm having trouble with our thirsty all-in-one too, so I think it's got to be the cream.

To complicate matters, he has been in and out of disposables this week during trips to the office and one night where we got out to dinner with friends. It hasn't made it too much worse, but it really makes me doubtful that we should do disposables when on the ground in Florida and Michigan this summer. It looks like he inherited my sensitive skin.