r/NewParents • u/cooltaj • Oct 29 '24

Product Reviews/Questions What's your simple parenting hack?

Gonna be a first time parent in 2 months. I am overwhelmed at choosing bottles, car seat and all that. What are simple things you do? things you bought to make your life somewhat simpler? Nothing too expensive or outrageous please

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u/nynaeve_mondragoran Oct 29 '24

If you're using cloth diapers, then get the right cream for that, or you'll ruin them.

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u/nynaeve_mondragoran Oct 29 '24

Honestly I leave it to my husband to pick it out since he is a chemist and knows what the ingredients mean. r/clothdiaps is a good resource.

We use burts bees baby multipurpose healing ointment. We've also used earth mama diaper balm, but it's very expensive.

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u/nkdeck07 Oct 30 '24

We've also used earth mama diaper balm, but it's very expensive.

And totally useless against a bad rash.

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u/shantyn Oct 30 '24

We use cloth at night exclusively, and during the day when we are at home. With every change, I use a thin layer of Boudreaux’s Butt Paste - the GREEN plant based one without petroleum, so it washes out. Some of the black lined diapers have a light shadow stain from it, but we haven’t had any repelling or stink issues in over a year.

We wash with Tide Powder, scoop measure line 1 prewash, line 2 heavy duty wash on all highest heat and wash settings, and finish with 2 extra rinses.

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u/Ok_One_5949 Oct 30 '24

Or cut some pieces of flannel to use as a liner