A few notes.
– It’s a good idea to have Tylenol suppositories for infants in your medicine cabinet.
– UTIs are rare in infants, but they are not the no-big-deal infections that they are in grownups. They are serious. They are also the number-one thing to rule out if your baby has an unexplained fever for more than a couple of days. I had no idea.
– Diaper wars: Probably it’s best to do elimination communication with babies, but I’ve noticed an advantage of disposables over cloth, at least with totally-breastfed baby girls: It’s a lot easier to clean her off after a bowel movement when the disposable has absorbed all the liquid. The cloth dipes leak less, but her poop is much more smeared around in the cloth dipes than it is in the disposable. I’m guessing this advantage goes away after the transition to solid foods/solid BMs. Anyway, if you use cloth diapers with a new little girl, this is an argument for removing the diaper immediately when you notice a bowel movement is beginning, and holding her over potty or toilet or even the diaper, rather than letting her finish in the diaper.
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