A New Parent’s Worst Nightmare – Cradle Cap!
When your baby is first born she will perfect to you in every way, even if she has flaws like many babies do. There are any number of scars or imperfections that you may discover on your baby, but nothing is quite as unnerving as when cradle cap first appears. When my daughter was born I was well aware of this problem and the fact that it would most likely happen to her at some point in the first few months of her life. I had taken the time to read up on the condition and thought I was fully prepared for whenever it would happen. I read all of the advice about not letting the appearance of cradle cap upset me, and I was fully determined to stick to my guns and treat it casually when the time came.
However that all changed whenever my daughter got it around six weeks. It started out as just a few little flakes on her scalp, but got progressively worse as the weeks went on. It became so bad that it was actually starting to upset me more than I had anticipated. We had gone through a bout of acne with our daughter as well, and it only lasted for about a week, so it did not bother me nearly as much as the cradle cap did. I can tell you now that this is something that is not easily cured in most babies, and while there are a number of things that you can do to try and get rid of it, the best cure is patience.
The first thing we tried was using baby oil on our daughter’s scalp, and then we would painstakingly comb out the oil and the flakes. However, this just ended up making the matter worse it seemed. We then tried using olive oil, but the results were about the same. Eventually, we decided to just comb out the cradle crap without using any type of ointments or oil. We would do this every day, just to get out the loose flakes that were on our daughters scalp. It definitely tested our patience, as the condition lasted for over a month before it finally cleared up.
The chances that your baby will end up with cradle cap are actually pretty high, so if you are a new parent and you’re reading this article, you will have to prepare yourself for this eventuality. I can almost guarantee you that it will more than likely bother you, more than you can imagine right now. However, it does go away after time, and the best cure as I mentioned earlier is a lot of patience and faith that the condition will clear up on its own.
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