the fountain

lumi has a horrific diaper rash.  i was in zurich for 2 days last week and one of those days turned out to a pooping spree.  kimmo has a very limited sense of smell, and doesn't pick up on poo that he is not expecting.   normally we let her run around in her pajamas and night diaper for most of the morning while she eats breakfast, so she can be in that night diaper for about 11 hours.  what i think happened was that lumi had a huge poo early in the night, which kimmo did not detect because he didn't smell anything, and then she was left to pee and roll around in that same diaper until 7am the next day.  and then when he actually cleaned her up, i'm guessing he didn't do a thorough enough job.

this means that i arrived home to find that she had a bright red rash all over her skin under her diaper, and something that looks like heat rash up to her belly.  it was painful for a few days, but it's healing now, after a lot of frequent diaper changes this weekend, plus diaper-free time, plus extra lotion and oil to help the skin heal itself.  but then after one day of daycare it again looked not so great today.  still not as bad as last week, but i think they were not as vigilant about changing her as we were, so it regressed a bit.  so at about 18:45 tonight i took off her diaper to let her run around and get some air in there.  she didn't have any accidents for about 20 minutes, but then when i was holding her she peed on me.  then i tried to take her to the potty but she insisted she was done.  then she peed again on the floor.  then she insisted she was done.  then she had a little poo on the floor.  again, i took her to the potty, cleaned her up, and she insisted she was done.  then she had a bigger poo on the floor!  i started to clean it up while kimmo took her to the bathroom to start the bath.  and then she peed one last time on the floor next to the bathtub while kimmo was trying to get the bath ready.