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Product Spotlight 03/10: Health & Safety
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Today I'm asking for contributions to discuss generally on the topic of Health and Safety, which admittedly is a pretty broad topic! How do we keep our babies healthy? How do we keep our babies safe? That's, like, all of parenthood!
I think in a most immediate sense, let's think about stocking our first aid kits and medicine cabinets: what kind of thermometer do you have for babies? Do you use Infant Tylenol or Advil? If so, when? For a fever, or discomfort, or teething? If the baby is congested, do you use one of those manual bulb snot-extractors or do you swear by the Nose Frida? (And... on the other end... have you tried the Windi?) And speaking of gassy babies, do you use any products for that, like gripe water? How about keeping those sharp little talon nails safe from scratching their face? Do you clip, file, bite, or use one of those motorized kits?
And then there are outlier items that most people may not stock but some people love: do you have an owlet monitor? Humidifier/air purifier? Crib-rail covers for baby to chew on?
The big safety topic down the road is baby-proofing, which we will likely discuss once our babies are out and mobile, but if anyone has pressing advice or product recs to share with FTMs to keep in mind for the future, don't hesitate to speak up!
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I think in a most immediate sense, let's think about stocking our first aid kits and medicine cabinets: what kind of thermometer do you have for babies? Do you use Infant Tylenol or Advil? If so, when? For a fever, or discomfort, or teething? If the baby is congested, do you use one of those manual bulb snot-extractors or do you swear by the Nose Frida? (And... on the other end... have you tried the Windi?) And speaking of gassy babies, do you use any products for that, like gripe water? How about keeping those sharp little talon nails safe from scratching their face? Do you clip, file, bite, or use one of those motorized kits?
And then there are outlier items that most people may not stock but some people love: do you have an owlet monitor? Humidifier/air purifier? Crib-rail covers for baby to chew on?
The big safety topic down the road is baby-proofing, which we will likely discuss once our babies are out and mobile, but if anyone has pressing advice or product recs to share with FTMs to keep in mind for the future, don't hesitate to speak up!
Prior and Upcoming Product Spotlight
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Re: Product Spotlight 03/10: Health & Safety
I love Camilia for teething. I use tempra on the really bad teething days but these are very rare occurrences and Baby Advil if it's REALLY bad - luckily only 1 day of this. We've been lucky enough to only ever a fever 1 time in his life and it was after his dairy allergy challenge so it was likely allergy related so I gave him his 2nd dose of allergy medicine and it went away.
Nose Frida is AMAZING. Best investment. Definitely recommend it. Bbluv electric nail filer is great and super easy to keep those nails short. My son had eczema so I cut his nails all the time since he would scratch his head and face. I still use the bbluv nail filer on him.
My son never chewed on his crib and Amsterdam is super humid so we never needed anything. I do have a Dyson air purifier upstairs but that's about it. And that reminds me I need a new filter.
For cradle cap - mustela cradle cap foam. It's great.
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Our poor kiddo was also subjected to infant Tylenol on the first day of his life because of his forceps delivery so since then I just have always had a bottle of Tylenol kicking around and find it very useful for teething and colds. I also second that you NEED a Nose Frida. And a good saline mist or drops.
Our kiddo also had eczema so we kept his hands covered most of the time, and used clippers and files to keep the nails under control. Bring clippers to the hospital with you!! Those newborn nails are ridiculously long LOL.
We do have a rubber crib rail protector, our kid chewed the crap out of the crib - once we stayed over at our in-laws and I found my child in the middle of the night with white paint all over his face because he had been gnawing on the crib all night LOL omg, what a guy.
We live in a dry dry climate so a humidifier is basically essential for about 8 months of the year, as well is handy when ds has a cough or cold. We just have a Homedics one but I find it difficult to clean, so I'd say if you were looking to find one that comes apart very well so that all parts are easy to clean - they need to be sanitized regularly because water=mold and nasties and then that gets spewed into the air... yuck.
I can't really remember now what else for baby - stock up on Vaseline, it's super handy to have for all sorts of things but especially eczema and bum rash (and if you're going the circumcision route as well).
We have a humidifier in each child’s room and I like to have air circulating in whatever room baby is sleeping in. We don’t have an owlet, I am VERY triggered by alarms after having both kids in the nicu and I wouldn’t trust them anyway, so for my anxiety I just make the sleep area as safe as possible. We follow safe sleep pretty much to a T unless there is something questionable - like babies not being swaddled after 8 weeks even if they’re not rolling over - ONE pediatrician this one time and it’s taken as law. Meanwhile both my kids have rolled later bc of developmental delays. But we do completely bare, separate sleep environment. No bed sharing for us (I’m not saying it can’t be safe, I’m saying it doesn’t work for my anxiety), no loveys, blankets, crib bumpers, nothing. No crib rails or anything here, we’ve never had an issue with them biting it.
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