Same. We only used any barrier cream when she had redness, the occasional times she got some rash, or when I was expecting a poo overnight 
I definitely have found poo sitting on her unseen is a recipe for early diaper rash (redness and sometimes worse). She went through a period of stealth pooping that was really problematic for that.
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Open wounds can take awhile to heal, but it shouldn’t continue getting worse.
Closed rash should be getting better in a few days to a week, maybe a bit longer to clear.
Did you doctor also recommend no diaper time?
Ours had us put the baby on towels and let them have some free butt time as well. Air helps. Moist diaper makes it tough to heal.
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We only used diaper cream as needed.
We use Parent’s Choice sensitive skin wipes. When his rash got horrible, we switched to literal water- a spray bottle and cotton cloths (cut up old tshirts).
I don’t think there is any miracle to Water Wipes. Plenty of baby wipes work just fine. Some babies are more prone to diaper rash than others.
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A lot of other wipes use one particular preservative that can be a skin irritant. So if their skin doesn’t like that one component (I’m blanking on what it is) then suddenly you have a very short list of commercial wipes. Water and flannel cuts is definitely the cheapest way to do it in that case if you’ve got the laundry bandwidth.
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That makes sense- what is the ingredient, do you know?
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I would have to check, it’s not one Latte has a problem with so I didn’t commit it to memory. 
ETA:
Ah got it I think:
methochloroisothiazolinone / methylisithiazolinone, or MCI/MI
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Thanks.
The Parent’s Choice Sensitive wipes we use don’t have it (and are cheap!). But that may be why Drew didn’t do well when we used up some gift Huggies wipes.
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I think the Kirkland wipes use a different preservative too, not 100% sure, but I think they’re pretty cheap too?
The Amazon elements sensitive brand doesn’t have that as well. They are pretty cheap too. Our sensitive skin now toddler has been good with them.
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Random loss of appetite and breastfeeding and waking and screaming extra… we’re teething again, aren’t we?
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Ours don’t have it: https://www.rascalandfriends.ca/sensitive-wipes
These are at walmart and cheap!
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Sounds very likely to me! Especially in the absence of anything that would suggest illness, instead. Are you familiar with what tooth buds look like?
He has many many tooth buds. He goes the long con with teething pain, first tooth mid December, 2 through five were like popcorn in the 2nd,3rd, 5th 5th days of Christmas. 6 was silent. I think we’re going to break mama by getting the lowers in. Speaking of breaking mama… He charged me while I was holding hot tea just now
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Noooo baby 
I’m sorry. I hope you’re okay. That’s so scary.
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Diaper rash update: Within 12 hours of using the antibacterial cream (muciprocin) the rash was 75% gone! Now it’s 2 days later and a tiny bit of residual redness. I wish we’d asked the doc sooner but now we know. Sorry you got rookie parents, little Spore.
Also doing 30m of airing out time every day.
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Our midwife suggested that luckily all kids are made to deal with first time parents.
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Starting solids.
You would think after doing this one before that I wouldn’t be confused but it seems things have changed?
With my first it seemed that there was a lot of pressure to wait until 6 month, or as close as possible. This time it has been discussed with us by our doctor since 4 months and we were told waiting until 6 months isn’t as important as previously thought 
. Her recommendation was just go with it once he seems interested.
Our baby is 5 months next week and gagging for food. He grabs for it given the opportunity so we have been giving him bits of fruit, toast sticks, cucumber, etc to play with. Just the past couple of days he has started mashing it up with his gums and swallowing it and I’m suddenly second guessing if starting so early is a good idea at all
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The basic consensus I’ve seen, is that if you’re starting purées you can start at four months, but if you want to do finger foods and meltable‘s in a baby led weaning style, you have to wait until six months and they’re sitting up independently.
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We are doing finger foods.
He can sit well. Perfectly in a high chair and is pretty good on the floor completely unsupported, until he tries to turn too quickly to see something.
Reading a bit more online it sounds like we really shouldn’t until at least 5.5 months, but he is very adamant that he wants to eat the food we have. I didn’t want to do purées and we didn’t with Pikelet, but she wasn’t this interested in food until right before 6 months.
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I’ve seen this one and heard it when Duckling was starting solids regardless of purees or thicker food - and that anywhere from 4-6 months, as long as they’re interested.
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