Diaper rash?

joie12

I'm feeling like a total FTM here... DD has a raised red rash on her butt cheeks, and nowhere else. It has a very clear border. It doesn't seem to bother her, but it looks pretty painful. It has very small bumps.

 Is this just run of the mill diaper rash? It almost looks like contact dermatitis to me - or what I have had from pool chemicals, etc. I am not sure if that's the cause because we haven't done anything different. At home we use cloth diapers and a coconut oil-shea butter diaper rash cream; over the weekend it cleared up. At daycare we are using Pampers and Desitin, and by Tuesday it was back. I asked the DCP to use Aquaphor instead of Desitin today, but is there something else I should do?

jmccall79

It could be the diapers.  Even if she's not had a reaction before, she could be reacting to them now.  I especially think this because you said you CD at home and it was clear over the weekend but it's back after what I would assume is 2 days of

preggersINschool25

Are you sure it isn't a yeast rash?

firewife9278

Hadley is allergic to Pampers too. We use the Huggies Pure & Natural now.

That does sound like an allergic reaction to either the diapers or maybe the cream. Maybe try different diapers and the same cream you use at home and see if that cl