Our 2yo has sensitive skin, so we’ve always been really particular about drying his butt during a diaper change before putting the new diaper on, and we haven’t had much problem with diaper rash since he was only a few months old.
But sometimes when he comes back from an afternoon with grandma and auntie, he’ll have a good bit of diaper rash - well when we watch the change him, I noticed they don’t bother to use the drying rag we include in the diaper change kit, just wipe clean and then strap up.
We also got some friends with a similar age kid, and they also don’t dry, but they are big fans of baby powder, and out some of that on with every change. Their kid is a little bit younger but it sounds like they deal with rash fairly often (despite less sensitive skin generally).
So that brings me to the title - are people just really out here not drying butts? Is it weird that we always do? Is this not a normal part of the diaper change process?
What do yall think?
All kids are different so what works for my kid might not work for your kid (on top of patenting preference) but for what it’s worth we never dried butts and used cloth diapers and the doctor even said she rarely sees a baby with no diaper rash. It might be that we change diapers once an hour though.