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PSA for mommies having boys

AndysGrl08AndysGrl08
in December 2010 Moms

DS was circumsized and we have to put little sterile, nonstick pads with Vaseline on his little peen every time we change him. The hospital gave us a few, but we went through them in about a day and a half.

If you are having a boy and having him circumsized, I highly recommend Amazon for these pads. We went to CVS and paid $1 per pad when we realized we were going to run out...we go through about 12-15 per day, so it is insanely expensive. On Amazon they are $20 for 100 of them, so you will save a boat load. I wish we had know this a few days ago!

Just thought I would share this little nugget of knowledge that we just learned! 

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  • MamaStef0810MamaStef0810 member
    I just cut up a roll of gauze and it worked good as well. Wink
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  • lulu8109lulu8109 member
    Ooh, do you have a link?  I bought a bunch of small gauze pads, but have no clue if they are the right kind or size.  Plus I probably don't have nearly enough, so I'll probably order them off Amazon.  I would like to NOT pay $1 per pad, hahaha.
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  • moosemaxmoosemax

    imageMamaStef0810:
    I just cut up a roll of gauze and it worked good as well. Wink

    THIS. I got the little prepackaged steralized ones from my local grocery store for like 2 bucks. This is actually what my hospital used and suggested we use too!

    ETA: I wanted to add..that we put regular old vaseline on the guaze ourselves.

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  • AndysGrl08AndysGrl08

    imagelulu8109:
    Ooh, do you have a link?  I bought a bunch of small gauze pads, but have no clue if they are the right kind or size.  Plus I probably don't have nearly enough, so I'll probably order them off Amazon.  I would like to NOT pay $1 per pad, hahaha.

    Yeah, we were pretty peeved when we had no choice! We have since ordered some!

    https://www.amazon.com/KENDALL-CURITY-TELFA-ADHERING-GAUZE/dp/B0006GDA9G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1291666961&sr=8-1 

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  • AndysGrl08AndysGrl08

    imageMamaStef0810:
    I just cut up a roll of gauze and it worked good as well. Wink

    I love how every hospital says something different! So obnoxious! We were told we needed the non-adhesive, non-stick pads. A roll of gauze would have been a lot cheaper and a lot easier! 

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  • AndysGrl08AndysGrl08
    imagemoosemax:

    imageMamaStef0810:
    I just cut up a roll of gauze and it worked good as well. Wink

    THIS. I got the little prepackaged steralized ones from my local grocery store for like 2 bucks. This is actually what my hospital used and suggested we use too!

    ETA: I wanted to add..that we put regular old vaseline on the guaze ourselves.

    We also put regular Vaseline on them. Just a big ole clump of it and it seems to be working!

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  • MamaStef0810MamaStef0810 member
    imageAndysGrl08:

    imageMamaStef0810:
    I just cut up a roll of gauze and it worked good as well. Wink

    I love how every hospital says something different! So obnoxious! We were told we needed the non-adhesive, non-stick pads. A roll of gauze would have been a lot cheaper and a lot easier! 

    I totally know what you mean! My hospital is very, very, very strict about some things but completely lax on others. I also found that our pediatrician was even worse about it. They don't allow pacifiers, but gauze is okay. Tongue Tied

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  • PinkeLLe2PinkeLLe2

    Woah, those are pricey! We bought a small box of square gauze pads at Walgreens for like $5 for DS1 and they lasted long enough for it to heal. Any small square gauze pads work fine.

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  • lulu8109lulu8109 member
    imageAndysGrl08:

    imagelulu8109:
    Ooh, do you have a link?  I bought a bunch of small gauze pads, but have no clue if they are the right kind or size.  Plus I probably don't have nearly enough, so I'll probably order them off Amazon.  I would like to NOT pay $1 per pad, hahaha.

    Yeah, we were pretty peeved when we had no choice! We have since ordered some!

    https://www.amazon.com/KENDALL-CURITY-TELFA-ADHERING-GAUZE/dp/B0006GDA9G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1291666961&sr=8-1 

    (Sorry its not clicky!)

    Thanks for the link! 

    I'll have to ask around to see what my hospital suggests.  If gauze is ok, then I'd rather go with that since it's cheap and I can just run to CVS for it.

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  • PinkeLLe2PinkeLLe2
    Woah, those are way too pricey! You can buy a small box of small, square gauze pads at any drugstore for like $5 and they are just as effective. That's what we did for DS1 and the box lasted us until he was healed.
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  • LaLaaaaLaLaaaa
    Well I don't know what I'm having but I definitely appreciated this thread for possible future reference :-)  Thanks ladies!
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  • cc605cc605

    imageMamaStef0810:
    I just cut up a roll of gauze and it worked good as well. Wink

    we just used the little gauze squares the hosptial sent us home with Conner. Carson won't be having it done until 5-7 days after birth by our pedi instead of in the hospital.

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  • cc605cc605

    imageMamaStef0810:
    I just cut up a roll of gauze and it worked good as well. Wink

    we just used the little gauze squares the hosptial sent us home with Conner. Carson won't be having it done until 5-7 days after birth by our pedi instead of in the hospital.

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  • KellinaKellina
    Ask what method they use first- DS had a plastibell and we were told to do nothing!!!!! No gauze or anything needed. Just FYI!
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  • MrsTechieMrsTechie

    The hosptial only used a vaseline soaked gauze wrap on my son for 24 hours. After that, they just had us coat his man bits in vaseline and suggested that we dab a little inside his diaper too. They told us when it stops bleeding and isn't looking wet or sticky any more that we could stop the vaseline too.

    It only took 4 days for DS to heal.

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  • beautifulsin90beautifulsin90

    imageMamaStef0810:
    I just cut up a roll of gauze and it worked good as well. Wink

    I did the same. Plus it cost way less to do it like that.

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  • yaeger16yaeger16
    imageMrsTechie:

    The hosptial only used a vaseline soaked gauze wrap on my son for 24 hours. After that, they just had us coat his man bits in vaseline and suggested that we dab a little inside his diaper too. They told us when it stops bleeding and isn't looking wet or sticky any more that we could stop the vaseline too.

    It only took 4 days for DS to heal.

    This is the same this my hospital told me. I was starting to wonder if I was the only one who had done this.

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  • lady_knowledgelady_knowledge member
    Thanks for the heads up!
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