Hi everyone - I'm really in need of some help!
We've been using cloth for all DS's life, but he was a very heavy night wetter for a while and so we ended up using Seventh Generation disposables at night. Recently, he's stopped nursing at night, and so we thought we could get through the night in cloth and get rid of 'sposies forever. Now we use a GAD Semi-Fitted with the fleece liner, two JoeyBunz inserts, and a Dancing Bears fleece cover overnight, and everyone wakes up dry.
Since we switched, though, he's had problems with his foreskin. Once it was a little raw, red spot - put Earth Mama Angel Baby on it for a couple of days and it cleared up. A couple days ago, I thought it was looking red again, and it just looked redder and redder. I put Bacitracin on it, and it didn't clear up, and this has turned out to be a bad enough infection in his poor foreskin to merit oral antibiotics (his very first course of them
). Could it be a problem with my nighttime dipes? DH is blaming using the cloth overnight, and I am sort of inclined to agree with him, since we've never had any significant problems before and this is the only variable that has changed.
There are times when DS wakes up that the ammonia smell is so, so, so strong that it seriously is like taking a whiff from a bottle of Windex - it makes me choke and gag. I just found out that DH hasn't been washing the dipes the way I'd like him to - he was using too little soap and doing only one wash with soap, where I do two. When I have access to a top-loader and wash the diapers, they don't smell like this. Could it just be that the dipes were, essentially, dirty, causing the rash and then letting some bacteria in, causing the infection? Has anyone else experienced this?
Any help is welcome - if I can avoid putting a disposable a day into the landfill, I'll be thrilled! Thanks so much!
We've been using cloth for all DS's life, but he was a very heavy night wetter for a while and so we ended up using Seventh Generation disposables at night. Recently, he's stopped nursing at night, and so we thought we could get through the night in cloth and get rid of 'sposies forever. Now we use a GAD Semi-Fitted with the fleece liner, two JoeyBunz inserts, and a Dancing Bears fleece cover overnight, and everyone wakes up dry.
Since we switched, though, he's had problems with his foreskin. Once it was a little raw, red spot - put Earth Mama Angel Baby on it for a couple of days and it cleared up. A couple days ago, I thought it was looking red again, and it just looked redder and redder. I put Bacitracin on it, and it didn't clear up, and this has turned out to be a bad enough infection in his poor foreskin to merit oral antibiotics (his very first course of them
). Could it be a problem with my nighttime dipes? DH is blaming using the cloth overnight, and I am sort of inclined to agree with him, since we've never had any significant problems before and this is the only variable that has changed.There are times when DS wakes up that the ammonia smell is so, so, so strong that it seriously is like taking a whiff from a bottle of Windex - it makes me choke and gag. I just found out that DH hasn't been washing the dipes the way I'd like him to - he was using too little soap and doing only one wash with soap, where I do two. When I have access to a top-loader and wash the diapers, they don't smell like this. Could it just be that the dipes were, essentially, dirty, causing the rash and then letting some bacteria in, causing the infection? Has anyone else experienced this?
Any help is welcome - if I can avoid putting a disposable a day into the landfill, I'll be thrilled! Thanks so much!
