babies on the beach.... what should they wear???

[starlover]

summer is coming and i'm sure all good mothers are now wondering what their little darlings will be wearing on the beach this year....

do we go for:

the neoprene stay warm option? (note: no nappy insert)

the baby swimsuit/trunks (with built in nappy)

the sun protection suit (no nappy)

bog standard trunks/costume

just a swim nappy

nothing

obviously will be using sun cream and a gigantic hat..... your thoughts please, on this pressing issue!

but starry this sint a new born is it?
he wont lie in a tent

i dont knwo what he is on about

i told him the thread was kicking off, but that i'd askled you all to be sensible and answer my goddamned question and that you did, and even came up with a link for a swim nappy

so he said, is she your bitch now?

aha

he must be as gripped to mn as my dh!

take them to Iceland
not the shop, obviously
nice black beaches

i keep finding him on mn when he thinks i'm not looking!

On the beach my babies wear sun suits & hats with factor 60 suncream. And they stay in between 11 and 3.

And no Cod i wont expect them to do this when they are teenagers. But by then they will kwno all about sun protection and the beautiful safe tan you can get from a bottle

60

is that relaly any betetr htan 40?

Not a stitch. Good layer of suncream topped off with a good covering of sand for modesty.

i think the higher the spf the longer you can be safe in the sun. BUT... you should check sun cream for the rating on the back of the bottle (think it's a star rating) as that tells you how well it blocks uva

Both my two are very fair skinned, while they are still young and I can make them, they are completly covered up, sunsuits, hats and sun tan lotion. Sorry, but I'm not risking Skin Cancer for anybody.

But how is a sunsuit better than a t-shirt?

they should have an spf protection factor.

basically the weave of the fabric will be really nice and tight, so nothing can get through.
looser weave fabrics (particularly if you can see through it) are not as protective.

i've been burned through a t-shirt before

Sometimes even zinc cream/sunscreen can be no help sometimes. My bro using zinc cream and sunscreen his whole childhood and surfing life - still had to have skin cancers cut from his face (yuk)

it is such a serious business here - big school policies no hat no play, sunshades/sails over playgrounds and school uniform shirts having spf factor 50. The sunsuits do have spf/uva ratings and it is to do with the weave of the cloth not necessarily the type.

I am with Cod, trunks and sun cream, keep out of midday sun. Jeusus we are lucky to get enough sun in this country to wear sun cream anyway.

My kids go to Greece alot. Keep them out of the sun bvetween 1 and 3 and the rest they wear sun cream and often run aroudn naked..now there is another thread..what about those naughty men with cameras...

I am with Cod, trunks and sun cream, keep out of midday sun. Jeusus we are lucky to get enough sun in this country to wear sun cream anyway.

My kids go to Greece alot. Keep them out of the sun bvetween 1 and 3 and the rest they wear sun cream and often run aroudn naked..now there is another thread..what about those naughty men with cameras...

Skin cancer is massively on the increase and indeed many people die of cancers and in post mortems doctors often find malignant moles which may have been the start of other forms.I attend a skin clinic as transplant patients are v high risk and some of the stories are heart breaking It is definitely NOT hysteria.Having said that ds is very fair and I have always just covered him in cream kept a t shirt on and put him in a wide brimmed hat Never heard of a sun suit

ooh very topical Starlover - I have just ordered dd a sunsuit and then read this to find I am being hysterical !

Its for a week in spain to begin with - the way I see it, if she's covered up as much as poss I can spend more time drinking cava round the pool instead of worrying about whether she has enough sun cream on.

Think she has my skin type mind you (and my love of water) and I was horrifically burnt as a child because I spent so much time in the water which magnifies the sun..... don't want to risk that. Mind you, will probably get there drink too much cava and she'll be running round with nothing on.

Not sure whether i'd worry as much in the UK - but thats probably because I'm from brighton and there's no way I'd swim in the sea there or play on the (stoney) beach !!

Like in Oz the rules at school here are no hat no play ...
You can't get SPF cream less than 30 even for adults ...
I don't think protecting your children from the sun is being hysterical ... My parents used to slap factor 0 'suntan lotion' on us as kids and one of the things I remember about screaming sunburn as a child was my mother saying, "Never mind, you'll be lovely and brown in a few days!" ... as a result we are all moley and I have had a couple of moles taken off since I moved to NZ.
Skin cancer is a real threat wherever you live. In fact, it is one of the biggest cancer killers ... in Europe too.
In fact, although the sun is 'weaker' in the UK the risks are worse because people fry themselves for their 2 week holiday in Spain ... it is sunburn that is dangerous, not necessarily extended exposure to the sun ...
Can't believe those who say sunsuits are a waste of money ...
Too late for this UK summer as they are out of stock now (we are in autumn) but if anyone wants me to buy one for them from here (they are about $20 or less which is 7ish quid) I can do ready for next year ... they come back in September.
My DS wears trunks and a top made of the same material as a sun suit ... DD wears sunsuit and swimming nappy ... Both wear hats at all times.
As an aside, I recently read that vitamin D deficiency is on the up since people plaster their children with sunblock before going out. So, this year I let them have a bit of sun for not more than 10 minutes before putting on the sunblock (burntimes here are around 10 minutes). As a result they look healthy but have had no sunburn at all.

Easier and better for their skin (IMHO) to wear long loose fitting clothes than buckets of sunscreen. Took me a bit to cotton on to why all shorts here are 3/4 length for children but realised it was much easier than always worrying about how much/how recently they had been creamed. T shirt sleeves are just above elbows and shorts are long but loose - fab combination. Swim tops up to neck and board shorts down over knees for beach/pool. As with Ghosty only factor 30 is available here (interestingly nothing over that as well as nothing under that - seems to be the norm). Also sun safe hats - ie - hats with a brim all the way round so face and neck are shaded; no baseball caps.

We're having sunshine in the UK this year?! Nah. Save your money for jumpers and longjohns.

cute little bikini bottom things and a t-shirt, and a hat, they MUST WEAR A HAT.

Sun cream factor 60 at least.

Although when I was little, we used to run about all day long in fields and come in with 'short and t-shirt' tans. Ahhhhh, those were the days.

When I was in Australia and NZ the sun bloody well hurt there, ow, never ever sat out in it but still got a slight tan from wandering around.

yes agree with hats. no hat, no play on beach in beetroots household.

hunker, i snorted at the idea of sun in the UK to...