Personally I think sudocrem is horriable stuff! So thick and claggy. Years and years of changing countless nappies a day mean I've wasted far too much of my life scraping it off little bottoms when it's been over enthusatically caked on. My manager at work felt the same and used to have to excuse herself when doing care plans for new children when parents asked for sudocrem to be applied after EVERY change. She was a firm believer in nurseries taking the time to check and change nappies more reguarlly rather than layer up barrier cream. I'm sure she was convinced health visitors and midwives were encouraged to market it at one point.
When cream is needed I like I thiner cream which can easyly be applied thinly, everyday metanium is what I used for dd if she started to show signs of a rare sore bottom, but think bebapthem is good too. Vasaline is so much better as a barrier in my oppinion as you need much less of it to create a barrier and it cleans off so much easier. My magic go to cream for clearing up sore bits is the yellow tube of Metanium, I always had one in the change bag and one in the bathroom.
Dh only discovered sudocrem in later life, thanks to the bounty pack. He loves the stuff and will use it for everything. I have to agree it's not bad for burns (once they've started healing) or stings or bites. Just think there are better things out their for little bottoms. And that dh wouldn't need to go through anywhere as much of the stuff as he does if I he learnt to dry between his fingers properly after washing his hands, rather than using sudocrem to protect the cracks it causes.
marmite we didn't bath dd reguarlly unless needed until she was much older. Lots of top and tailing instead. I think her first bath was when she was 10 days old, because someone, can't remember which of it was, covered her in pizza crumbs! We did have to wash her hair loads so we weren't followed around by the smell of curled milk constantly but I tended to just do it over the sink rather than do a full bath several times a day.
Well for today at least I'm out of the crap sleep club. After I don't remeber how long of very broken sleep of 3-4 hours a night last night I was on my knees with exhaustion. Dh dunked me under the shower last night when he got in from work and tucked me into a warm bed with a hot water bottle and wedged me between two body pillows. Other than dd waking me up breifly needing a week I was out for the count from 9 until dh's alarm went off at 6. Will try that method again tonight and hope it just wans't due to complete exhaustion!