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Product Spotlight 5/24: Health and Safety

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This is a place for FTMs to ask questions and S+TMs to share the wealth of knowledge they've accumulated on baby products. Each week we'll spotlight a new category of product to help streamline and make it easier to refer back. This week it's.... Health and Safety! What items did you find were essential to have on hand for the early days of health care and safety?

Health and safety awareness is also important. Here is a link to the AAP's Healthy Children website.

You can find upcoming spotlights and links to previous ones here.
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  • zuuls_momzuuls_mom member
    I'm sure I will come back with more, but this immediately popped into my head when I read this. It only took me one time of clipping my LO's skin and making him bleed at a couple weeks old to look for something better! These are so awesome and make trimming nails soooo easy. 


    *TW*
    Me: 32 │ DH: 35 
    Married 8/16/13
    BFP#1 DS 11/13/16
    BFP# 2 MMC dx @ 13w 10/30/18
    BFP# 3 Preemie DD born at 38w (IUGR) on 8/28/19 weighing 5.5lbs. Our little miracle  <3


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  • monkeysmom80monkeysmom80 member
    @zuuls_mom I still use the scissors on my kids and they are 6 & 7. I am not to be trusted with clippers on anyone other than myself.
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  • janat1717janat1717 member
    @zuuls_mom I user scissors too for a couple of years. Now I use regular clippers since they seem quicker. 

    My midwife is one that swears by sprinkling goldenseal powder on the umbilical cord stump. That stupid stump was my least favorite part of a baby I think. Ours did fall off quickly but may have been coincidence too.
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  • ternsetcternsetc member
    @janat1717 yes I was not prepared for the umbilical stump. Was so happy when it fell off.
    I used the baby nail clippers on DS (still do), but DH wouldn't/won't. A thermometer is important for peace of mind (and also lube, and those plastic covers make life easier, if it's a rectal one). I know someone mentioned in another thread having infant tylenol on hand so it's there for the first fever - completely agree, and also recommend making sure to get the dosage information for weight from hospital/pediatrician ahead of time. Not a lot else is occurring to me, but I'll think about it.
    And this won't come up for most people, but DS had trouble gaining weight at first (due to some problems breastfeeding) and I was so stressed about it we ended up getting a baby scale for like $30 on amazon - completely worth it to not be second guessing if he was gaining all the time.
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  • septoctkidsseptoctkids member
    edited May 2019
    Some of our must haves to have on hand:

    -infant Tylenol (nothing worse than when baby spikes their first fever and you have to run to the store for Tylenol) 

    -Motrin (not to be used before 6 months but still good to have on hand when the time comes) 

    -nose frida

    -derma frida for cradle cap

    -Vick’s rectal thermometer

    - a safe baby body wash and lotion (we avoided all johnson & Johnson products) 

    -free and clear detergent (we avoided dreft.. it smells so amazing but the fragrance irritated my son’s skin. It’s also so misleading that they say it’s meant for newborns.) 

    *The EWG website (ewg.org) is a great resource to check the safety ratings on several products. There is an app as well. You can scan products right on the app and the ratings will come up.
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  • kdl89kdl89 member
    Another thing I will have on hand this time around is gripe water... with my daughter whenever I drank pop(soda) she would get belly pains and gas the gripe water helped until we figure out what was going on. Then I gave up pop while breastfeeding her.
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  • blitzybeeblitzybee member
    This will sound weird, but: hair depilatory cream.

    If a hair tourniquet happens around a toe or finger, using depilatory cream to dissolve it is such a huge life saver!

    I had heard of it happening, and it never did happen to my kiddo. But it did happen to my friend’s baby. She rushed her to the hospital and they used a depilatory cream and we all said ohhhhh, duh!!!  I kept a small tube of it in my diaper bag for several months.
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  • blitzybeeblitzybee member
    Denver has a company that does urgent care in the patient’s home (Dispatch Health @zuuls_mom and @mamaber2204). It is the most amazing service for illness so you don’t have to leave home or go to a doctors office where everyone is sick, and they treat kids and adults. They just took amazing care of my poor son that has strep throat☹️

    I’m wondering if other states and cities have similar services. If they do, find them and put them in your phone!!! 
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  • zuuls_momzuuls_mom member
    @blitzybee I had no idea! That’s amazing!
    *TW*
    Me: 32 │ DH: 35 
    Married 8/16/13
    BFP#1 DS 11/13/16
    BFP# 2 MMC dx @ 13w 10/30/18
    BFP# 3 Preemie DD born at 38w (IUGR) on 8/28/19 weighing 5.5lbs. Our little miracle  <3


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