When the bad gets really bad - Calmoseptine

Diaper rash hurts. It hurts the baby and it hurts the mom! Nothing worse than the child waking up in the middle of the night with a wet or poopie diaper and SCRRRRREAAAAAMING!!! This happened to us today. Screaming. I thought it was teething. She is getting her molars and she is in pain pretty much all day these days. Crying. Clingy. Doesn't want to be put down. Sometimes doesn't want to be held. Always her hand in her mouth and chews on everything. Poor kid. I went into the nursery to console my little one. She wouldn't take any teething tablets, teething gel, and just keep wailing.  I knew she was hurting i just couldn't figure out why! Then I found it.

Poor girlie had diaper rash. And bad. It comes on quick in this house. I put her to bed and she was fine, but she had some stomach issues in the night and during the time it took me to realize this and change her, it set in. Red, raw and painful. I could barely wipe her bottom. I removed as much as I could with a cloth and just let her crawl around. She could barely move. Gave her some Motrin and put her in the bath. Nothing like a cool bath to calm the screaming the dry those tears. It's now 5am and I'm sure my husband was wondering why the baby was in the bath. Everyone thankfully stayed asleep. As I looked in my arsenal, I couldn't find my go-to product for painful diaper rash. Calmoseptine. A neighbor had recommended it about 6 years ago when my oldest daughter had diaper rash due to teething as well. It literally numbs the butt and takes the edge off. Not sure it has any "healing" qualities but it does the trick and lets the babies go back to sleep. I had to go back to the pharmacy today to get some more... Its about $9 and is sold behind the pharmacy counter. One huge tube should last you a lifetime but I'm pretty sure this was my third one that I bought. First one was used up, second one is probably in my closet somewhere so we are now onto a third.

The thing with this stuff is you would never know about it if another mother doesn't tell you. It's a staple in this house but just because someone else told me about it. It's originally made for nursing homes for urinary incontinence patients but it works wonders over here.

This time I'm not going to lose the tube because the next time she wakes up with flaming rash, I'll be ready!