Dealing With A Natural 4c Hair Baby/Toddler

  

It can be a bit challenging dealing with a tiny person who does not want to and does not care about hair. Getting them to sit still is a battle. It takes a lot of patience! Sometimes we have two hairstyles or half a hairstyle. 

Don't force them. Don't make her/him hate their hair or getting their hair done. If she gets too fussy and clearly doesn't want to sit still, just let them go. Try doing simple hairstyles that don't take too long. Or do their hair whilst they are sleeping. My toddler won’t sit still, sleeping doesn’t help, she turns over or wakes up, TV doesn’t help... Some kids are more patient and just sit through it...

To deep condition her hair I:

Monday	-	wash and section, braids or hair bands.
Tuesday morning	-	use spray bottle to get her hair wet and I put in the conditioner
Tuesday mid-morning	-	I wash her hair and then use the LOC/”LCO” method.

Make sure their hair is damp when you handle it. Try to finger detangle and minimise comb usage.

I use the same products on my hair I use on hers/theirs. She is two now.

Not Enough Growth?

I haven't had a lot of growth. Mainly because I haven't been treating it as I should. I have seen some growth but would probably see more if I took proper care of it.

14 January 2015

Have a kid turning 2 in a little bit. Plus a two month old!
So don't know when I'll have the time.

Cradle Cap Remedy For Baby With 4c Or Tightly Coiled Hair

Cradle cap drove me crazy for a while. To the point where I had decided to let it be and just leave the baby like that as it does not hurt the baby. But it can turn into big scales which quite frankly are hard to look at.

Chances are it probably bothers you more than other people considering not a single person said a thing about it, and people had a lot of "advice".

I tried the oiling and gently brushing thing but it did not work for us. My bun was born with a full head of coiled hair, this hair is 4c - The Buns Hair. Black babies seem to be born with straight hair? I don't have much experience with this as I have seen very few newborns and most of them are always bundled up and wearing a hat. But the ones whose heads I saw had straight hair.

The using a toothbrush or baby brush obviously did not work us because her hair was coiled from the get go.

This is what worked for  us:

I use Johnson & Johnson products on

NAPPY/DIAPER RASH

There are several causes of diaper rash. These two links can help give you clearer more detailed information:

Wikipedia - Irritant Diaper Dermatitis
Chealth - Diaper rash

In our case it began with what seemed like a sudden onset of a mild running tummy. The buns poop which had always been yellow had become green, slimy, foamy and very frequent. The bun would usually poop once a day or once every two to three days was now pooping several times a day, sometimes more than once in an hour. The bun is exclusively breast fed so fortunately these changes brought no new odors with them.

The buns bottom was bright red and swollen and she would scream at the slightest touch.

Possible Causes:

1. Prolonged exposure to moisture from the running tummy?
2. Changed diapers from Huggies Gold to Pampers Premium Care? 
3. Using baby wipes? 
4. Friction from the numerous diaper changes could have irritated the skin.

OUR SOLUTION:

• To clean her we began

Things I Did Not Know About Babies

These are some of the things about babies that caught me off guard:

• Farting
• Cradle Cap
• Their Nails
• Body Hair

Other things weren't such a shock as I had read about them on-line. For a more detailed account of my little surprises -


Farting
Yes they are human and have all the necessary parts to toot but it still caught me off guard. A tiny newborn is gassy but it is odorless, then one day BOOM it stinks. I mean it really really reeks. Perhaps its their little tummies adjusting. Then you ask how can such a cute little thing be so stinky? Fortunately they ball aren't gaggers and they stink for short periods then back to normal.


Cradle Cap
This bothered me at first, as I did not know how to handle it. I found a pretty good solution HERE. My little bun.