Must have Monday-Aveeno

We, like most first time parents were plenty concerned with things that wouldn’t cross one’s mind any other day.  One of these things was bathing baby. How often, when, how much soap, not enough soap and which soap?

Since we had a hard time the first few weeks with the extra hospital stay, we found ourselves using the Johnsons Baby body wash the hospitals use and send you home with.  Not but 3 weeks later our son’s scalp started to peel.  I really really wanted to avoid the cradle cap (or cradle crap as we sometimes called it) so I did some research.  I found out that there were a lot of moms complaining about the Johnsons wash and how they switched and saw almost immediate improvement.

So I talked to Cammon and we figured since we use the best, why not treat our baby to the best.  So we went and bought Aveeno baby lotion and body wash for our little Scooter.   That night we gave him a bath-and the next day his dry scalp was gone.  We have never had another flake since.

Every night before bed Cammon gives Scooter a baby massage using the Aveeno Baby Lotion and he loves it!  We also have never had a problem with dry skin and I believe its from the lotion.

We have since moved to trying out regular Aveeno lotion for the nighttime massage and haven’t seen any problems, but I’ll keep you up to date on that.

The funny thing is that Aveeno makes its own products EXCEPT for the baby products.  Johnson and Johnson makes those products-or at least has their name on the bottle.  I’m not sure why then it seems to work better than the original Johson’s products.  Cammon’s theory is that it still has to meet Aveeno regulations or expectations or something so it is still made better.  I’m not sure.

All I know is that when I had cracked and bleeding hands-it was finally as an adult someone introduced me to Aveeno-my friend’s son had exema and thats what the doctor prescribe. I tried it and haven’t had a dry hand since.   Cammon, who uses lotion before he goes to bed AND when he first wakes up-he hates dry feet-LOVES Aveeno and nothing else can substitute for it.

We even bought a Costco package of the Aveeno baby body wash and plan to use it all and buy some more.  We’ve gotten so many comments on Scooter’s hair-yes it stands straight up-but also about how soft it is and I couldn’t be more proud!

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Must Have Nasal Aspirator

Here is my first post about something I couldn’t do without:  A BebeSounds Nasal Aspirator

Oh my gosh I can’t describe what a life saver this has been.  Each time I used the aspirator bulb the hospital gave us, I either sucked snot and brains out of my sons nose because I caused too much suction or I didn’t get anything because I was afraid I was hurting the nose walls inside.

And because our Scooter had pneumonia-you can be rest assured he had a lot of snot coming out of that nose the first few months of life.

I love this device because it is easy to insert-small enough for my son’s small nose openings-it gets far enough back to get that booger way in the back-and he seemed to like it too!  Each time we started the suction he would lean his own head back and wait for it.

It comes with music, but we never used it.

It is easy to clean-a lot easier than the bulb. The pieces come apart easy enough and I just use a toothpick to make sure the nose piece is clear.

Next time I go to a baby shower-this is definitely going to be an option for a gift!

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