what do you puit on your baby's skin after a bath? to stop it drying out in winter..

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nothing

always used Olive oil when dd was a newborn, then baby oil later.

nothing

nowt, they don't need anything IMO, but you could put a little almond or olive oil in the bath water

Nothing. But then I didn't use any kind of soap/bubblebath either, which would dry it out.

do they not feel dry after a bath in winter? mine does

I used organic sunflower oil when a newborn - maybe will restart that.....?

Don't use soap etc and smother in epaderm afterwards (prescribed). He needs it as his skin is sandpaper dry and will crack/bleed if not moisturised.

I like Oilatum which you put in the bath - seems to keep his skin from drying out, but doesn't make him greasy. Oh, and don't really use soap at all, even though some friends seem to think this amounts to not keeping my child clean!

Ours get sewn into their clothes in October so this is not a problem.

that was DH. he has taken to perusing "threads I'm on". WAVES AT DH.

nothing. Don't use soap either (well only if it was a really sticky poo, and then only on the bum). Soap dries the skin out and isn't really necessary. Ds is now 2 and has lovely skin, not dry at all.

We used olive oil when DD when teeny tiny and now use vaseline (she's 14m). Only changed as vaseline doesn't spill when grabbed by a 'boddler'!
Agree you don't actually need anything unless for medical reasons, but we did baby massage after her bath from just a week or so old and we still do as it helps her relax before bed and is a lovely way of getting skin to skin cuddles now she's a bag of jumping beans

Nothing but if her skin looks dry then olive oil or coconut oil.

oats in a sock in the bath. then a dash of olive oil. yum

Nothing at all but a little almond oil on dry scalps or very dry areas. Never in creses on sking it reall irritates.

Less baths?

Hatwoman, has your Dh had that embarassing problem again?

tthis is really good.

Aveeno cream every time as ds2 had dreadful dry broken skin for the first year which he's fortunately grown out of. In fact I use it too now its so lovely

bonjour my dh is an embarrassing problem...

dd - nothing, lovely soft baby skin (10 mths), ds Aveeno by the bucketload - itchy, sore,spotty skin since birth (now 4)

pyjamas, usually

she occasionally gets scaly shins for some reason, but the Waitrose baby bottom butter (which is just olive oil, cammomile and vanilla) works quite well.

We get aveeno on prescription, both DDs have mild ezcema. It is lovely stuff.

Used olive oil on them when babies on advice of postnatal group types.

Wash in plain water with maybe a teeny bit of shampoo on hair. No bubble baths or anything