At least 30 mosquito bites!

crazyDCbride

Poor DD...

She was outside in the yard for 15-20 minutes the other day, and now has at least 30 mosquito bites all over her legs and face.    (I started counting and stopped at 20...)

Since she had her 6mo vaccinations the other day, I thought it might be a reaction or something like that... but - nope - just mosquito bites.

We have SO many insects in our yard, I guess we have to be careful to make sure she's totally covered up when we go outside. 

Artslvr

Poor baby!  My DD #1 and I are usually the most bitten when mosquitoes are around.  Not sure why.

spiffyone

oh no!!  little man gets one or two and doesn't even seem to itch (i am convinced he doesn't have the itch gene) and then i look down and i am covered with bites and scratching to no end.

barkers4jmm

We have so many mosquitoes - I can have 10 bites in one minute being outside.  Mid-day it's not so bad - worst is the evenings.  Generally we don't bring her out during these times, but we do have a netting to drape her stroller if needed.

MosersGirl

barkers4jmm:

We have so many mosquitoes - I can have 10 bites in one minute being outside.  Mid-day it's not so bad - worst is the evenings.  Generally we don't bring her out during these times, but we do have a netting to drape her stroller if needed.

Same here.  Our yard is awful, and we have such a great front porch that hardly gets used during the summer.  I sometimes bring her outside to play on a blanket in the morning, but only for a few minutes.  I also have a mosquito net for the pack 'n' play and her stroller in case we need it.  We filled up a little baby pool on our porch the other day to see if she liked it, and within 5 minutes we had to head inside.     I wish there was something that worked, but I refuse to use bug spray because it hardly does anything, and all of the horrible chemicals aren't worth it.

tracy042206

Another option with the bug spray is to just spray their clothes.  I know some of it still gets on them but if you have to be outside (and when they are older all they want to do is be outside) this helps a lot.  I put some on Maggie's dress the one day we were over at a friends but neglected to put some on myself - I got a bunch of bites on my legs and she had none even though the dress only reached her knees.