Please be gentle with me, DH and I are really upset about this atm and we need some constructive advice, ideally from people who work in this sector.
DD is 15 months, she's been in nursery 3 days a week since she was 9 months. In general we are happy with the nursery.
The only problem is nappy rash.
The last month or so though literally every week we send her to nursery with only a tiny bit of nappy rash and she comes home on Monday afternoon with a significant sore nappy area, that gets worse until Wed when is her last day. Then her nan has her and then we have her and the rash is almost gone by Monday. Then repeat. DH had a conversation with her keyworker about this a week ago and they gave us assurances about what they were doing and we agreed to trial using the wipes we use at home (although usually we just use cotton wool and water at home, we just use wipes when out or if she's done a poo). They use some kind of reusable wipes on her at nursery prior to this. The only things we could think of that were causing the rash was either these wipes, or not being changed quickly enough after doing a poo. Anyway they've been using our wipes and it's not made any difference. Today was the worst yet. She had a tiny bit of redness when I sent her in this morning and they didn't mention anything at pick up. We changed her for bed and she was screaming and flinching in pain, the entire area was BRIGHT red and she was so distressed she posseted as she'd not long had her bottle.
DH and I are so upset. I really don't want to take her tomorrow morning, I feel awful about it. The plan is that I ask them to do hourly changes tomorrow and stress how upset we are with her nappy rash after 1 day. And DH is going to call at lunchtime and see if we can schedule a meeting with the nursery manager for the end of the week that we will both attend. We are thinking of floating suggestions like checking her nappy every 30 mins or so (too much? not changing her just having a sniff/peek), keeping a record of who is doing the changes and when or assigning a specific staff member each day to be in charge of her nappies, asking that they let us know at collection if she has got bad nappy rash etc, providing cotton wool and asking them to just use water and cotton wool for changes...
Has anyone been in a similar situation, what did you do? Particularly keen to hear from nursery workers re how you would deal with this - I want to work with the nursery staff to find a solution to this. It is a fairly recent problem too, not something that's happened ever since she started.
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MeadowHay · 23/09/2019 22:05
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