The Cetaphil Baby Wash Delusion: Why Slippery Twins Require A Reali...
I'm currently holding onto a wet, furious 11-kilo toddler with my left forearm while my right hand desperately attempts to extract lather from a plastic bottle before her sister successfully drinks a pint of lukewarm, slightly soapy bathwater. If you've...
The 3 AM Eczema Crisis That Made Me Choose CeraVe Baby Wash
At exactly 3:14 AM on a rainy Tuesday, I found myself holding a slippery, screaming infant who looked alarmingly like a boiled prawn. Florence, who's usually the more reasonable of the twins, was covered neck-to-toe in a furious, sandpaper-like rash....
Why I Swear By Unscented Aveeno For My Kids Eczema Nightmares
I was halfway down on my left knee, skidding across the wet bathroom linoleum while my oldest screamed bloody murder and thrashed around in what was supposed to be a soothing bedtime soak. It was 2019, my husband was working...
The Brutal Truth About Baby Washcloths And Infant Bath Time
I'm currently staring at a grayish ring of curdled formula trapped in the third chin fold of my toddler. It smells vaguely like a frat house basement. My mother-in-law would probably tell me to fetch the soap and a heavy...
The Ugly Truth About Baby Wash and That Famous Newborn Smell
I was standing in the middle of Target, heavily pregnant with my second, actively sniffing a plastic bottle of yellow shampoo while my oldest kid scratched his eczema patches until they bled. I remember looking at the ingredients list, which...
Is Baby Dove The Answer? My Total Newborn Skincare Meltdown
It was 2017, and I was sitting on the edge of our impossibly cold bathroom floor tiles in my stained gray nursing tank, crying into a lukewarm mug of French roast. Maya was four months old, and her skin looked...
My Honest Review Of Aveeno Baby Products And Daily Bathing Myths
Itβs 7:42 PM on a Tuesday, I've half a lukewarm mug of microwave-reheated Folgers balanced precariously on the toilet tank, and my mother-in-law is texting me asking if Iβm giving four-month-old Leo a "proper bath" tonight. The sheer panic that...
Mustela Baby Skincare: A Letter To My Exhausted Past Self
You're sitting on the cold hexagon tiles of our Chicago bathroom right now. It's three in the morning. The baby is screaming in the tub. His skin looks like an angry, red topographic map of the Rockies, and you're staring...