A Guide on Diapering Your Baby

Various ways of folding Baby's diaper, whether oblong or square make it possible to have just one size that will fit Baby at every stage of his development. If rubber panties used over regular diapers chafe your baby's skin, they should not be used except for outings. To make trips and outing easier, there are fitted ones which fasten with tapes and also several types of disposable ones.

Place your Baby on a quilted pad and remove the soiled diaper. Wash genitals from front to back with moistened cotton and pat dry with a towel. If Baby has had a bowel movement, do not remove diaper at once but fold the soiled portion under. This procedure can protect the quilt if Baby wiggles around. Wipe his buttocks with moistened cotton and wash with soap and water, rinse and pat dry.

Apply lotion or oil to the genital area and buttocks with a piece of cotton, making certain to apply it in the creases and folds of the skin, then powder lightly.

Holding the Baby's ankles between your thumb and middle finger, with your index finger between his ankles, raise his ankles high enough to slide a clean folded diaper under him. Pull the diaper up between the legs, with extra thickness in back for girls and in front for boys.

With the back overlapping the front, pin the diaper on each side, being careful to keep your finger next to Baby to avoid pricking him. You may pin the shirt between the front and back fold of the diaper at the sides, but fold the shirt up in back to keep it dry.

How to Give Your Baby a Tub Bath

As soon as Baby's navel and circumcision have healed, you can start giving Baby a tub bath, unless your doctor advises otherwise. It would be convenient to assemble the same equipment (List of Equipment for Sponge Bath) as for the sponge bath except that you will use a tub or bathinette in place of the basin water. Fill the tub or bathinette with about three inches of water that is comfortably warm to your elbow.

Place Baby on a large towel on top of the bathinette or table and clean his ears and nose particularly the creases around. Wash his face with water and his scalp with soap and water as you would during a sponge bath.

With your left arm supporting his head and shoulders, your left hand firmly holding the upper part of his left leg, and your right hand supporting his buttocks, gently lower Baby into the tub. Hold him firmly with one hand, supporting his head and back, then rinse him with wash cloth with other hand.

In cleansing genitals, if Baby is not circumcised ask your doctor if he wants you to clean under the foreskin, if baby is a girl, separate genital folds carefully and cleanse between them with a down ward stroke, using cotton dipped in water.

Lift Baby back on table or on top of bathinette, cover him with towel, and pat dry, paying careful attention to all creases and skin folds. Dress baby in clean clothes.

Welcome Frezel Anne to the Family

Who would have known it, baby Frezel Anne my brother's daughter would be born on October 29 the same day as Keona. Here are some photos of the new girl in town.