Nursery and nappy rash

[BettyBi0]

My DD is 20 months and recently started nursery 3 days a week (tues-thurs). She never usually suffers from nappy rash but does have quite sensitive skin so we always change her pretty frequently. We seem to have a really annoying pattern now where she comes home from nursery with a sore looking bot on the first day which gets progressively worse over the next 2 days of nursery, then clears up completely during her 4 days off in a row, but restarts like clockwork the next week as soon as she is back at nursery.

I've tried talking to the key worker about it and they say they change her regularly. We supply all the nappies and wipes so I don't junk it's an allergy thing. Does this happen to other people's tots?

I had a friend who had this. Her son seemed to do acidic poos which if they weren't changed immeadiately (as he was at home) turned I to horrible nappy rash.

I think she spoke to them and asked that they kept an eye out for poos and also suggested regular application if cream even before a problem arose.
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We had this issue with our eldest's nursery. In the baby room I genuinely felt they did their best to help deal with it - she'd have regular nappy free time and they used to use just cotton wool and water to clean her. I did wonder if it was the change of diet causing looser stools and therefore nappy rash? By the time I started wondering about this she'd moved rooms to the toddler room where they were awful and I had to take her out. I tried getting them to cut out acidic food like tomatoes/citrus fruit. They didn't actually do it though.

are you sure they are using your nappies and wipes?

I think part of the problem might be that she is not really eating there properly. She keeps refusing her lunch and snacks and only eating the puddings. We've never really offered puddings at home except for the odd rare icecream treat. Do you think that could be setting off the rash?

I'm sure they are using the wipes as they seem to get through loads of them. A few times she has come home in a different brand nappy though

I don't know but it could be? The nursery we used definitely gave more puddings and more processed food than we did at home (DD was my PFB!).

Could you get away with taking in yogurt and fruit or whatever she'd normally eat instead of a pudding or would she be outraged at having something different?!

They don't like people bringing in their own food - something about health and safety rules or something annoying like that. It's so strange as at home she is a great eater and tries almost anything, eats loads of veg etc

What does she have to drink there? It could even be the type of squash/juice they give her and that would be easy enough to provide yourself without them having any health & safety issues.

They only offer water and milk so I think the drinking side of things is ok.

I'm going to keep asking how many changes she had each day but I'm a bit worried about being"that parent" IYKWIM especially with her only being there a month so far

They're leaving her too long and not using your nappies.

If the rash clears up when you're at home and starts after day 1 (when she'd still be pooing out food you gave her the day before-tmi but you know what I mean!)then there may be another explaination but isn't this the most likely one?? Just tell them to change her very frequently and only use your nappies because her skin is sensitive and that's what you sent the nappies in for. Don't worry about being "that" parent, you're paying them not the other way around. Your baby shouldn't be coming home from nursery with a sore arse because they aren't changing her enough.

How many times do they change her? In our nursery they write down all nappy changes and contents of it. Do they have nappy rash cream?