To the mama/parent that is feeling hopeless about their baby’s skin.. try the oatmeal bath!!
I just wanted to share a success story because I was feeling so hopeless about my 5.5m old’s horrible horrible drool rash that had turned into some very itchy and uncomfortable eczema for her.
I had tried about 10 different things- breast milk, tubby Todd, aveeno eczema (the lotion and the cream), earth mama calendula and the cheek balm, badger balm… I even took her to the pediatrician and they prescribed and antifungal (which was NOT the problem). lots of money spent and she was still so uncomfortable 😣
One of my friends mentioned trying an oatmeal bath and another recommended a sprinkle of baking soda. Last night we were contemplating ordering a pretty expensive product called emu aid out of sheer desperation to help her. We did an oatmeal (1 cup blended up super fine in a sock)/baking soda bath, a thick layer of tubby Todd and cera ve healing ointment, and this morning when she woke up her skin looked alot better. By the end of the day the rash was almost gone, like literal magic 😭 we did another oatmeal bath tonight just to really kick this thing, I’ll update tomorrow if it went away.
It’s been weeks of this and I’m so thankful we have found something that worked. There’s nothing worse than seeing your baby in distress 😭😭😭