Iamthefallen's Journal: Conjunction junction, what's your function?

I got a call from daycare around 11.45 this morning where a teacher told me that Mercer had formed a very nasty rash, blisters and all, on his butt. So I told my boss I had to leave and went to pick him up, he was on his mat on the floor screaming his little lungs out while a teacher was trying to comfort him.

We packed him up with a new (loose) diaper and went home and set up camp on the couch. With an open diaper under his butt and a towel under that to catch any accidents we were set for an afternoon on the couch. Some cookies for him, some ice cream for me and the school house rock dvd playing, it was pretty nice.

The diaper rash is slowly clearing up from an angry bright red to a rosy pink, and he's in a much better mood, even if he's walking bowlegged...

The boy's also opsessed with trains, so once the DVD came to the conjunction junction clip, that's where we've stayed since 3pm... Repeated over and over again...anything else would result in much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

But that's OK, being sick give a lot of leeway with activities.

Calendula cream

[bethanie]

Weleda makes a good one -- comes in a yellow/orange metal tube, can get it from a natural foods store or any place that sells woo-woo homeopathic hippie-type stuff.

Sounds like exactly the kind of allergic diaper rash that Squirt gets when she's eaten something on the no-no list.

Oh, and tepid baths with colloidal oatmeal (think Aveeno) are good, too. :-)

....Bethanie....

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[FroMan]

BAH! What a horrible parent, don't listen to Bethanie. What kind of parent encourages their kids to take baths in their food? Oatmeal is for eating, not for bathing!

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[IamBMETammy]

I actually got some Aveeno bottom cream stuff, we'll see if it helps. When he wakes up in the morning we'll try the bath.

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[TopShelf]

When we lived in Indiana, our pediatrician would prescribe a white-ish concoction that looked like spackle. It was known as "Riley Butt Cream" from Riley Hospital in Indy, and it worked wonders on our little ones' sore buns. I never did find out what it was made of...

Hooking up...

[RevMike]

... words and phrases and clauses.

Out of the frying pan

[rk]

AND into the fire.

I don't have the DVD, and haven't seen one of those in 25? years... that was by far the one that stuck with me the most... that and the interjections one. "so when you're happy...or sad..."

I've always been a space geek, and I recall the "12 times" one being space themed, and they rarely showed that one. It's probably not as cool as I remember it being.

awful rash and uncooperative child

[pnutjam]

My daughter had a bad rash like that afew months ago. The little shit absolutly refused to go without a diaper. She just lays there and cries, "want diappy...".