Our Lima Bean Blog

So, he is taking baby steps …

Sometimes all you want to do is shake shake shake …

So this is little LB sacked out on our bed last night after play time. Note that after two separate Arc of Pee incidents at Grandma and Grandpa’s, our little “nakey time” before putting jammies on isn’t too flashy, especially when laying on Mommy and Daddy’s bed! LB’s sleep number is apparently a reasonably firm 70. He would probably drown on mommy’s side…rarely set above 30.

Last night, the little babe developed his first rash. I noticed some red splotches on his cheek and forehead when we went shopping in the afternoon. By evening, it had spread to his eyelids, other cheek, and quite irritated on his neck. We stripped him down and called the doctor. Possible culprits: new lotion that we’re trying, adult laundry detergent (I sometimes mix his clothes in with ours), eczema, or baby mysteries. My first instinct was to get him in a bath and scrub him down to remove any allergens on his body. However, although the doctor said a bath was fine, we were not to use soap on the rash. Good thing we asked! So we skipped the bath, found a nighty that had surely been washed in Dreft, and set upon getting LB to sleep. He had a fitful night, waking several times and wanting a feeding around 2, which he’d been skipping for a couple of weeks. I had a fitful night too, waking when he woke and checking to be sure he wasn’t becoming a rash-covered itch ball. Happily, we can report that upon waking this morning, the rash has diminished greatly, and LB seems in fairly good spirits. Yea!

The down side of this all is that I’ve got to re-wash all his clothes. We think the culprit may be the adult detergent combined with the collar on the golf shirt he donned yesterday. Unfortunately pregnancy brain has rendered me useless as to figuring out which clothes I washed how, so we’re just going to re-wash them all. Better safe than sorry!