Our 2yo has sensitive skin, so we’ve always been really particular about drying his butt during a diaper change before putting the new diaper on, and we haven’t had much problem with diaper rash since he was only a few months old.
But sometimes when he comes back from an afternoon with grandma and auntie, he’ll have a good bit of diaper rash - well when we watch the change him, I noticed they don’t bother to use the drying rag we include in the diaper change kit, just wipe clean and then strap up.
We also got some friends with a similar age kid, and they also don’t dry, but they are big fans of baby powder, and out some of that on with every change. Their kid is a little bit younger but it sounds like they deal with rash fairly often (despite less sensitive skin generally).
So that brings me to the title - are people just really out here not drying butts? Is it weird that we always do? Is this not a normal part of the diaper change process?
What do yall think?
Depended on where we were.
At home, we dried - carefully, with a soft absorbent cloth towel so as to avoid rubbing or irritating the skin.
When out and about, we often found ourselves doing “tactical” nappy changes at maximally inconvenient times. I’m afraid our high standards could not be maintained.
Managed to generally avoid nappy rashes though; once, only briefly, and caught / dealt with early.