To use a wax burner with a newborn

[firstbabyloading]

Prepared to be shot down here but I'm due my firstborn very soon and I'm wondering if there are any safe wax melts to use in the same room as a baby?
I always have my 2 burners on to keep the house smelling fresh, one in the hallway and one in my living room, am I right in thinking I shouldn't use the living room one as this is where my newborn will be spending alot of time?
And if so can anyone recommend any safe products to use to keep my house smelling fresh?

Just open the windows for a while every day.

I can't stand artificial smells. They don't make your house smell "fresh" they just make it smell.

Open the windows daily to allow fresh air to circulate. Clean or remove anything that is causing a foul odour. That should be enough.

Not a fan of artificial scents, I definitely wouldn't have one in a room with a newborn. Open a window instead, can't get much fresher than that

Look up scentsy go.

Personally I wouldn't be using any air fresheners anywhere in the home, these things are full of chemicals and why would you want to expose your baby to this? It doesn't really matter which rooms you freshen because the particles will move with the air to all parts of the house, so really best all round not to bother.

I wouldn't have naked flames around babies, due to potential fire risk or smoke inhalation. How about oil air freshers that aren't burned? Good luck with your up coming arrival!!

No you should avoid as much carcinogens as possible

Thank you @bigglewig
yeah i do open the windows & back door every morning as I like the fresh air to sweep through but obviously I can't have them open for very long with the winter around the corner.

Also I have a dog (hes not a typically 'smelly' dog😂) but I do get paranoid that people coming round will be able to smell him and obviously we are gonna have a lot of visitors over the next few weeks x

I really wouldn’t personally use any form of air freshener in the house at all with a newborn. The particles are really not healthy to breathe in. I have a DH with asthma, and we never use anything , as it has an immediate effect on his breathing. Having seen that, I wouldn’t have one anywhere near a newborn. I don’t like breathing them myself, and I don’t have any form of lung condition.

Are you very house proud, OP? You sound very worried about what visitors will think. I’m sure airing the house will be more than enough. Air fresheners don’t really mask bad smells anyway, you tend to just get an unpleasant melange of bad smell mixed with chemical fragrance! Any visitors should realise you have a newborn and not expect show home standards, anyway.

You could look into getting a vaporizer (do you have them in England?). Filled with water and some essential oil. Just ensure the oils you use are non toxic and safe for use around newborn baby and pets. Organic oils are expensive but they do last yonks. Also you get to control the times you have it switched on. Dottera oils are good. Some even claim to have added health benefits, though will leave that research to you.

Or you could just not give a stuff about what visitors think. Good luck lovely x

What about a diffuser with something like lavender essential oil?

They're just putting fumes in to your house. If your house is clean it wil smell fresh. You don't need shit like that. It's the equivalent of sniffing an exhaust but it just happens to smell nice

We lived in a very polluted country for a while so have something which measures air pollution in a room. You would not believe the change in the air by lighting even a match. I lit a candle for a bit when we were there, an hour or so later the air pollution was well over safe levels. I wouldn’t expose a child to this, especially not a newborn

Fresh air. And if you must have smellies, a few cloves in an earring bag, a cinnamon stick, lavender or rosemary on the rad as you walk into the house for something light. But your baby needs to smell you, its family, people. I am not a fan of nasties.

I had a vaporiser with lavender essential oil which I used when she was small. All natural, I guess if you used wax melts make sure they are soy and essential oil rather than artificial fragrance

Please be careful with essential oils around children.

Opening your windows is the honestly best way to keep your home fresh.

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Horehound - what an awful, disgusting little bully you are. “Poor dog & baby” poor anyone who has any relation or connection to you, you absolute bully!

ZOMBIE!!