Day 41 - I feel like a horrible mom.

Okay, so the second day we went out walking, it was sunny so I decided to put on sunscreen. I read that the same needed to be done for babies, so I put some on Elizabeth. The next day, I had bumps on my hands. I didn't really think about it - it didn't hurt or itch. So when I went for a walk that day, I didn't think about sunscreen - most of my route is in the shade. When I got to the sunny part, my arms started burning. It felt rash-y. When I got back to the apartment, I took a shower to get whatever was on my skin, off. It felt marginally better after a shower. The next day, I noticed my arms were lumpy and red-ish. It seemed that being in the sun made it burn - the heat made it itchy and stingy. I noticed later that day that Elizabeth had the same sort of bumps on her face that were on my hands. It dawned on me that it almost had to be the sunscreen we used. There wasn't much else it could be. I felt horrible. It didn't seem to bother Elizabeth - her bumps weren't red, just lumpy.

So today when I gave her a bath, I discovered that she has horrible cradle cap on her scalp. At first I thought that I hadn't rinsed off all of the baby wash, but then I realized that it was dry skin that was clumping up. I finally managed to get the dry skin on her legs and feet cleared up, but now she's got baby flakes.