Swimwear/sunblock questions

hav2run · January 2009

I am planning for a trip in March and was wondering which sunblocks work best and wont irritate DD's skin. Also, what do you use for a swim diaper? I have seen the rubber covers and disposables. Which works best? Do they fit under the infant swimsuits well?

I hadn't thought ahead to what we will need for warm weather until now. It just made me more anxious to get summer here already!

Jigginjessica · January 2009

For a second I was going to ask if you knew something I didn't know about the Ohio weather I'm jealous of your trip!

PS Did you get my email a few weeks back?

hav2run · January 2009

No, I didn't see an email. That is the third time this month I have missed an email. I really think hotmail is eating my incoming mail. Angry

little-peanut · January 2009

The few times we took DS in the water last summer, the little swimmers diapers worked well. We had a hard time finding a swimsuit to fit right. It seemed that all the suits that were in his size were huge on him. When he was wearing a 6-9 month, I ended having to buy a 3 month swim trunk for him. It was very weird.

As far a sunscreen, we use Water Babies and have had no problem. I think Aveeno baby makes one that is all natural, so maybe if you have a problem with DD's skin, give that a try.

I am so jealous of your trip. I so am ready for a warm weather vacation!

Jigginjessica · January 2009

Aw, that stinks. Sometimes I think gmail does the same thing, well actually gmail usually just waits a few hours or a day to retrieve the message I was just responding to the message you left on my post regarding childcare. If you want to try an email me, my address is jigginjessica at gmail dot com

buckeyefrog · January 2009

Our Dr. reccommended Blue Lizard Baby sunscreen. It can be hard to find, but it works great, and is super safe for baby's sensitive skin.

kel716 · January 2009

My SIL used Huggies Lil' Swimmers diapers. She gave us her leftovers, and that's what we plan to use this year. I saw some at Kroger in November on clearance ($1/pack), and I snatched up a few more packs. We're planning on a beach vacation, and we want to do some swim lessons around here at some point... they go to 28 pounds, so I'm sure we'll get that in before he's too big. I don't know how they work yet, but I know my SIL is picky so I'm pretty sure they'll work just fine.

punkrawkmom44 · January 2009

We always used the "little swimmers" for the boys. They seem to work well, never had an incident.

KristenBtobe · January 2009

Some Walgreens carry the lizard sunscreen behind the pharmacy counter, I think.

424bride · January 2009

I used Aveeno baby sunblock on Nicholas last year and it seemed to work good. And, Huggies Lil Swimmers, too...

sistrkate · January 2009

Little Swimmers are hard to find in small sizes. I couldn't find them to fit Justin last summer to save my life. I just ended up using a regular diaper under his swimsuit and we had no troubles at all.

Also -- Justin has pretty sensitive skin and Aveeno Baby sunscreen made him break out. I will have to look and see what we ended up using instead, but it didn't work well for us. I'd also tell you to try to find something specific for Brenna's face.......regular sunscreen made Justin's eyes water and tear when we applied it to his face.

sprads · January 2009

I thought DD had very sesitive skin because she was breaking out with a horrible rash...turns out it was food allergies. But my point is, I have about 3 bottles of sesitive skin types if you want to borrow them to figure out what will work best.

I have Neutragena sensitive, aveeno baby, jason's and maybe 1 or 2 more.

I don't know if I was using the wrong size, but when DD was being held and she peed, the diaper never held it.

doodlebug914 · January 2009

We use Neutrogena sensitive sunscreen per pedi's recommendation and Ethan did well with it. We also bought the Huggies Little Swimmers, although we didn't take him out in the water too much. Looking forward to this summer

JLPT830 · January 2009

DS was in the water quite a bit since my parents have a pool. He wore the little swimmers, sometimes with a bathing suit, but usually without. We always put a t-shirt on him though. And we used either aveno or water babies sunscreen.

adamsbabble · January 2009

We used Aveeno Baby sunblock (didn't irritate/never had a sunburn) and Huggies Lil Swimmers last summer. However, Kroger had Pampers Splashers on clearance this winter so I stocked up and used a couple in a hotel pool when we were OOT a few weekends back- the Pampers seemed to prevent leaks a little better as far as I can tell. It just seemed that with the Huggies brand, the pee went right through them when she was out of the water.

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