Baby products
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norsegirlWent shopping for more baby stuff today. Stuff like baby wipes and diaper cream. The things you want to have on-hand when you come home from the hospital, but that you don't buy too far in advance so it doesn't get dried out and go bad. Had a real hard time with the diaper cream though. Either the ingredient list was like a chemistry class, with a zillion chemical names that I didn't recognize. Or there was only a few ingredients, but one of them was talc, which I recognize and know as BAD. To the moms out there... what kind of diaper cream do you use?
Also picked up a pack of breastmilk storage bags and a single bottle so maybe Jason can feed her on occasion if he wants to, or if something happens and I'm out of commission it isn't the end of the world. We don't plan on this being a regular thing, but at least now we have the supplies in case we want to try it. Can't see myself going so far as to buy a pump, but we'll see what I can manage by hand. Went with the "VentAire Advanced" bottle. It's BPA free plastic, which is not the glass I initially wanted, but according to my next door neighbour, bottles with this funny shape really do help to reduce gas and they just don't make glass bottles in anything other than the standard upright form. Anyone out there have bottle recommendations?
Tried to buy some lanolin for me, but of course everyone working at Wal-mart is an idiot, so that was full of fail. According to their website Target stocks it, so I'll stop there tonight. I would have just gone to a pharmacy, but I was also buying ingredients to make Chili for Jason, and ground beef isn't exactly a pharmacy item. Also picked up some of that Bio-Oil stuff to try to manage the road map that my tummy has become. I hate the smell of it. Not sure whether I dislike Lavender, Calendula, Rosemary, Chamomile or all four. It reminds me vaguely of "fly wipe" the stuff we used to put around the horses' face and ears at camp to keep them from getting bitten by the deer flies. I didn't care for the smell of that either. Still, it's worth trying and by the ingredient list it looks like it won't hurt, so I guess I can put up with the smell for a bit.
In other good news... the Halloween baby stuff came in at Wal-Mart. I picked up all kinds of adorable goth onesies in various sizes for my little one. Because as far as I'm concerned, Halloween stuff is perfectly appropriate all year. They all glow in the dark too, which is wicked awesome!
I've got 2 hours before I have to leave to pick Jason up from work. Time to go get something done...
Also picked up a pack of breastmilk storage bags and a single bottle so maybe Jason can feed her on occasion if he wants to, or if something happens and I'm out of commission it isn't the end of the world. We don't plan on this being a regular thing, but at least now we have the supplies in case we want to try it. Can't see myself going so far as to buy a pump, but we'll see what I can manage by hand. Went with the "VentAire Advanced" bottle. It's BPA free plastic, which is not the glass I initially wanted, but according to my next door neighbour, bottles with this funny shape really do help to reduce gas and they just don't make glass bottles in anything other than the standard upright form. Anyone out there have bottle recommendations?
Tried to buy some lanolin for me, but of course everyone working at Wal-mart is an idiot, so that was full of fail. According to their website Target stocks it, so I'll stop there tonight. I would have just gone to a pharmacy, but I was also buying ingredients to make Chili for Jason, and ground beef isn't exactly a pharmacy item. Also picked up some of that Bio-Oil stuff to try to manage the road map that my tummy has become. I hate the smell of it. Not sure whether I dislike Lavender, Calendula, Rosemary, Chamomile or all four. It reminds me vaguely of "fly wipe" the stuff we used to put around the horses' face and ears at camp to keep them from getting bitten by the deer flies. I didn't care for the smell of that either. Still, it's worth trying and by the ingredient list it looks like it won't hurt, so I guess I can put up with the smell for a bit.
In other good news... the Halloween baby stuff came in at Wal-Mart. I picked up all kinds of adorable goth onesies in various sizes for my little one. Because as far as I'm concerned, Halloween stuff is perfectly appropriate all year. They all glow in the dark too, which is wicked awesome!
I've got 2 hours before I have to leave to pick Jason up from work. Time to go get something done...
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Date: 2009-08-04 04:12 am (UTC)There are 2 things I will use on her butt:
plain old zinc
petroleum jelly
In the end, they were the only things that ever worked.
With regards to bottles, We used the playtex bag-in-bottle system, which also helps prevent gas. They use a disposable plastic bottle liner that is BPA free. Avent also has a bag-in-bottle system now, which is safe too, and the Avent nipples are the ones lactation consultants really love. If you are super concerned, born free makes a BPA-free plastic bottle that is affordable as well.
Hope that helps!