Silver is back in cloth diapers today for the first time in a couple weeks... She had gotten diaper rash from a combination of a laundry mishap from me (drying her diaper inserts with a dryer sheet, hence making them un-absorbant) and teething.
We have always felt extremely loyal to our cloth and started with all the natural remedies we could try first. We tried coconut oil (it's antibacterial and antifungal).
Then I bought some raw silk liners (raw silk retains some of the silk's natural sericin (a creamy wax given off by the silkworms) which is supposed to be both soothing and antibacterial! It's also great at pulling moisture away from the skin).
At one point, I even leaned over the changing table so I could squirt some milk onto her heiny. Breast milk has got some amazing healing capabilities! But it didn't seem to work for us and our situation...
Her diaper rash was never terrible (minus when it first popped up, when I hadn't realized I had messed up the diapers), but it just wouldn't seem to go away.
So then I bought some disposables. I so didn't want to do it. Not to mention the fact that the situation was particularly irritating because of course I have received some flack about using cloth. So I now feel like I need to defend it!!! But back to the diaper rash, some family members had suggested that maybe the cloth was the problem because 'they can't ever really get sanitary, disposables are so much more absorbent, and maybe disposables would even help her sleep better at night' (that's a whole other issue...!) blah, blah, blah...
Alas, I went with some more 'natural' disposables, from 7th Generation, and then also plowed through some Huggies Pure and Natural (I have no idea how you disposable diaper using people do it! They are expensive!) I tried Desatin (I have no idea how people use that stuff daily either! It's a mess). Tried Triple Paste. Tried A&E. The diaper rash would always fade away yet still be there, and at times it was occasionally more noticeable than other times.
Did some more research. Bought some cornstarch, though never used it. Re-read up on coconut oil. Um... Hmm... I had bought the kind at the health food store that was specifically for the skin, when come to find out, it was deodorized. There goes man, messing around with nature again. Are you kidding me? So then I went back to the health food store, bought some cold pressed coconut oil used for cooking, slathered it on Silver's bum, and BAM!, couple of diapers later and the rash is almost gone. For real this time. And she smells like a pina colada. :) So... Life is good. We love our cloth.
And, as a P.S., let's just say holy cow to the blowouts that Silver had while in the sposies. She has only maybe had a couple while in cloth. Those disposables just didn't work out for us so well. Love cloth. So much. The end.
Then I bought some raw silk liners (raw silk retains some of the silk's natural sericin (a creamy wax given off by the silkworms) which is supposed to be both soothing and antibacterial! It's also great at pulling moisture away from the skin).
At one point, I even leaned over the changing table so I could squirt some milk onto her heiny. Breast milk has got some amazing healing capabilities! But it didn't seem to work for us and our situation...
Her diaper rash was never terrible (minus when it first popped up, when I hadn't realized I had messed up the diapers), but it just wouldn't seem to go away.
So then I bought some disposables. I so didn't want to do it. Not to mention the fact that the situation was particularly irritating because of course I have received some flack about using cloth. So I now feel like I need to defend it!!! But back to the diaper rash, some family members had suggested that maybe the cloth was the problem because 'they can't ever really get sanitary, disposables are so much more absorbent, and maybe disposables would even help her sleep better at night' (that's a whole other issue...!) blah, blah, blah...
Alas, I went with some more 'natural' disposables, from 7th Generation, and then also plowed through some Huggies Pure and Natural (I have no idea how you disposable diaper using people do it! They are expensive!) I tried Desatin (I have no idea how people use that stuff daily either! It's a mess). Tried Triple Paste. Tried A&E. The diaper rash would always fade away yet still be there, and at times it was occasionally more noticeable than other times.
Did some more research. Bought some cornstarch, though never used it. Re-read up on coconut oil. Um... Hmm... I had bought the kind at the health food store that was specifically for the skin, when come to find out, it was deodorized. There goes man, messing around with nature again. Are you kidding me? So then I went back to the health food store, bought some cold pressed coconut oil used for cooking, slathered it on Silver's bum, and BAM!, couple of diapers later and the rash is almost gone. For real this time. And she smells like a pina colada. :) So... Life is good. We love our cloth.
And, as a P.S., let's just say holy cow to the blowouts that Silver had while in the sposies. She has only maybe had a couple while in cloth. Those disposables just didn't work out for us so well. Love cloth. So much. The end.
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