So, yeah. The yeast monster has reared his ugly head at my house. You remember that "occasional yeastie beastie" comment I made in my last post? Well little did I realize that the yeast makes it's way into the diaper itself! So full blown red butt yeast rash came on. And when that happens you get to treat your baby's butt, AND your diapers, for yeast.
It really wasn't that bad. Lot's of washing with different stuff. Start off with a soak in some Rockin Green and hot water, then wash with grapefruit seed extract and tea tree oil, then wash again and put white vinegar in the rinse, then keep rinsing until all the smell of vinegar and tea tree oil is gone. It took a couple of days to treat all of her diapers, but it's done!
Then I had to get creative with a way to treat her butt for the yeast rash and NOT ruin my fluff! I have some Grandma El's Diaper Rash Ointment that is designed for cloth diapers. A little bit goes a VERY long way. And from all my years working in the pharmacy I know that they make a nystatin powder. Nystatin is an antifungal agent, and I used to use nystatin cream when she got a yeast rash with disposable diapers. So my brilliant idea was to get a script for the nystatin powder, and have my favorite pharmacist compound it with the Grandma El's to make a nystatin ointment that was fluff friendly. It worked!!!! Used it four times a day for about 10 days and her butt is back to it's lovely smoothness. And we are BOTH happy about that!
The Christmas Season is upon us again. I am so NOT into battling the Black Friday hordes for stuff at 3am, but I am more than happy to sit at my computer at midnight to shop. My favorite laundry detergent, Rockin' Green, debuted their new holiday scent and gift pack at midnight the day after Thanksgiving. Talk about a madhouse! Apparently so many mama's logged on to shop that it crashed their "webcart" server! So like an idiot, I sat at my computer for 3 hours trying to buy laundry detergent! I was dragging at work the next day. It was not a pretty sight. BUT, my new bags of Rockin Green will be here tomorrow. Included in there will be some Funk Rock that I spoke of in my last post. Can't wait to try and de-funk my diapers!
On the new baby front- I had to put off trying until after the first of the year. There was some drama at work that stressed me out a bit, and my options for overtime shifts got limited due to staffing. So first attempt will be next month. My coworkers joked about how horrible I was on the fertility drugs the last time. Let's see if they notice when I start taking them again :)
I am looking forward to my little brother visiting in a couple of weeks. My mom told me last night that he will be here for about three weeks. That guy is getting put to work at helping me clean and paint the old house to get it on the market. I know, I still haven't finished moving out all my stuff yet. It is just so hard to try and get stuff done with a 2 year old around! I never knew how much stuff she could find interesting, until she managed to destroy every room in my house. And I am not kidding when I say EVERY room!!!! But I love her to death and wouldn't trade her for all the gold in the world.
Right now we are working on getting familiar with sitting on the potty. She is able to pull her own pants down and undo her diaper and sit on the potty. I just haven't been able to time that with a moment that she actually needs to pee. But I am happy that she sits on the potty without putting up a fight!
Anyway, a few more things to get done while the Tot is down for a nap!
Merry Christmas everyone!
TaTa for Now!
TaterTotMom
