Tips needed for flakey and spotty skin in a four week old .

[lucy5]

My ds [ooh that's the firsrt time I've typed that} has really dry skin, it looks like he's peeling. It is painful or enflamed [sp]. his face and neck are also very spotty, look like milk spots. So what can I do to clear his skin up? Thanks.

oops should read isn't painful!

Sorry, but they all do that around 4 weeks - it's very annoying, you are just about ready to take them out and show them off and they look terrible. It will pass.

I used to put a wee touch of vasaline on the dd dry skin. Really helped clear it up.

My midwife suggested olive oil for the flaky skin - worked a treat

Thanks, i don't remember dd being so flakey, he looks like the singng dective

oops, detective, i must practise one handed typing!

Was he more overdue than your first?

The flakey skin is fairly common for overdue babies I think? A sign of being over cooked perhaps

No he was 2 weeks early as was dd. I'm wondering if it is because they covered him in baby cologne at the hospital when they bathed him.

I agree - massage olive oil into his skin - should dry it up quite quickly.

sorry I mean clear it up quickly