Golden butt

Not so long ago (actually even now), people use cloth nappies

that's my Mummy when she's a baby in 1977.
Notice they didn't even use safety pins but a cloth belt to secure the nappy.

My parents did try to use cloth nappies for my korkor...
until one day...
my korkor's motion dropped out of his cloth diaper from the opening meant for his leg.

So they gave up on cloth diapers and switched toimage taken from www.fairprice.com.sg

Pampers NewBorn - disposable diapers.

My korkor has tried other brands like Mummy Poko & Drypers.
Mummy Poko New Born is soft and good too but it was too slippery on my korkor's butt so it kept sliding down his backside. Drypers was good too... until my parents found crystal-like stuff on my korkor's butt especially when the diaper is heavily soiled. So Pampers is THE brand for newborn babies. When it was my turn, the hospital which I was born in used Fitti. So we brought home and used the pack from the hospital. Mummy thinks Fitti is rough at the edges though my papa thinks it's similar to Pampers. but it just nice bao liao end up at my umbilical cord stump so it kept rubbing on the stump and it dropped prematurely causing a mild infection. sigh. now we change back to Pampers.

Pampers New Born Cheapest S$8.45 for a pack of 24 at NTUC Fairprice.
(correct as at 30 June 2010)

So what happened to all those cloth nappies?

Oh... we put them to good use - bed linen, blanket, swaddle cloth, towel, etc.
That's me in the picture, in case you were wondering.
Cloth nappies are great! cos they're so thin - suitable for the humid weather in Singapore.

As for wiping babies' backsides,

image taken from www.unfpa.org.pk

My Mummy remember helping to tear cotton wool from these rolls of them and make them into cotton balls. My grandparents will then use the cotton balls, dip them into water and wipe my XiaoYi's butt when she was a baby back in 1988.

image taken from www.pigeonbaby.info

Nowadays, we use baby wipes.

image taken from www.pigeonbaby.info

Pigeon's baby wipes are the best so far - no smell and not too wet, not too dry.
others are either too fragrant or too soapy.
the box's great for home use - making sure you take only one piece of wipe with each pull.

image taken from www.fairprice.com.sg

Otherwise, you can get the refill pack cheapest from NTUC Fairprice,
pack of 3 x 82 for $9.85 (correct as at 30 June 2010)


To keep baby's butt free from diaper rash, apply a barrier cream (nappy rash cream) after cleaning baby's backside everytime, before putting on the diaper.

image taken from www.eczanemonline.com.tr

Mummy recalls seeing this Drapolene cream being used for all the babies at home so she tried that on my korkor and the effect was not good. It was quite useless for a baby (i.e. my koror) who pass (a lot of) motion after every feed.

They then switched to Desitin.

Desitin Nappy Rash Cream comes in two types:

1. Desitin Creamy (blue box)

Picture taken from www.gmarket.com.sg

Desitin Creamy smells nice, can be applied and wiped off easily.

but for maximum strength, or bad case of diaper rash, use
2. Desitin Original (white/purple box)

Picture taken from happydays-shop.com

But be warned: Desitin Original's got fishy smell and more difficult to wipe/wash away.
Super effective though.