Parents of children with stinky neck cheese: know that you are not alone. I originally wrote this post during the Civil War (2008) and all these years later (2017) it is still getting hit like an M-Fer. I said it then and I’ll say it now: clearly this is a serious issue that needs further discussion.
What it is:
For those of you who didn’t get here via search engine and are ignorant to the silent, worldwide epidemic that is baby neck cheese, a little background. Baby neck cheese starts when milk dribbles down from baby’s mouth and settles into the many folds of her neck. This can happen while baby is drinking milk, or spitting up, both of which happen a lot with babies. That milk/spit-up is very stealthy. It slinks way down deep into a fold and hides there, maturing, staying so quiet you don’t even know its there until it starts stinking. By the time it fully ripens to cheese, which, depending on climate, may only take an hour, that stench is enough to wake the dead.
Why it forms:
This problem would not occur if babies had necks. Sadly, they do not. Babies have chubby round faces that sit right on their shoulders, with only cavernous folds in between. These folds are Cheddar Gorge, and at their depths, Cheddar Caves. The real Cheddar Caves are made of carboniferous limestone, and once concealed the complete skeleton of a man for 8,000 years. That’s how deep they are. That’s what your dealing with, yo.
How to Diagnose:
You know your baby has neck cheese when the stench emanating from baby’s neck is enough to resurrect an 8,000 year old man. What type of cheese does it smell like? This is a topic of hot debate in my household. My husband thinks it smells of Roquefort, and I’m inclined to agree, but just for the sake of argument I like to say that it smells of a sharper, 10-years-past-perfect Camembert. I’m open to further discussion, however, if there are any Fromagers/new parents reading this.
Aside from smell, if you would like more criteria for diagnosis (though after whiffing the region I cannot imagine you would need further proof), you can also note the appearance, which not surprisingly is curd-like. In appearance and not smell, it is Feta-esque.
Environmental, Behavioral, and Anatomical Causes:
Baby neck cheese is a hornet’s nest of causes and factors. First you have the behavioral issues: babies are messy eaters and spit up at lot. Then anatomy comes into play. Without a neck, the milk/spit-up cannot roll off, and has no where to go but deep in the folds, which function as tiny, infant fromageries. Next, we get screwed by the weather. The warmer, moister climates really set the stage for cheese cultivation. We live in a jungle for chrissakes, so we get hit harder than most.
Treatment and Cure:
Treatment depends on the length of the ripening process, and the sensitivity of your baby’s skin. Before the situation can be fully assessed, you must ferret the cheese out with liquid soap. Use baby soap. Baby skin is already delicate, and after suffering through cheese ripening, it really doesn’t need further insult. I suggest using a soft washcloth for this portion of the process. Not to get too graphic, but if you use your hand, you will never get the smell out. For real. Once the cheese is excavated, examine the fold. Is it red and irritated? Is it uncomfortable for your baby? If you have any concerns at all, contact your baby’s Pediatrician because it could be a yeast infection. Gross, but true. If this is the case, the doc will prescribe a lovely anti-fungal to clear it right up. We used Burt’s Bees diaper cream as our go-to treatment, and several commenters swear by polysporin. Most of the time, however, you can just loosen the curds with baby soap, mop them up with a washcloth, and baby’s good as gold until she gets the cure. The cure for baby neck cheese is growing a neck. When the folds cease to exist, the fromageries close up shop. Their time is odorous, but brief.
Prevention:
Not bloody likely! I’ll revise. If your baby is a messy eater, or frequent spitter-upper, and you live in a warm, moist climate, you’re f-ed. Your baby’s neck will be stinking it up with the rest of them. There are things you can do, however, to minimize the problem. Wisdom I will share with you from trial and error. When my twins were born, not long after we moved to this jungle, my husband and I found we we’re unaccustomed to the climate, and unaccustomed to the twins, for that matter. The girls had neck cheese so thick you could spread it on a cracker. We used a three prong method to attack the problem: bathe more often, burp more often, use oil. Method #1: Bathe the baby every day. With twins, this is really exhausting, and the baby books will tell you that a baby really doesn’t need a bath every day, but when that baby has neck cheese, she really does. And baths are fun! Even when you’re hallucinating in your exhaustion (especially then!) they are fun. Just suck it up and scrub those folds, dammit. Method #2: Burp more often. More burps=less spit up=less possibility of cheese. Need I say more? Method #3: Oil. After the bath, dry your baby completely and give her a nice soothing baby message, rubbing the baby oil deep down in every fold. This seems to help. I have a theory that the oil makes it harder for the curds to attach to the neck. There is only anecdotal evidence to back me up on this, as there has never been an in depth study on the prevention of baby neck cheese (I’m as good as it gets, kids), but I’ve found it to be effective, so give it a go!
Well, that’s all I’ve got. I welcome any comments/suggestions/questions/employment from all you suffering parents out there.
P.S. 2017 update. We no longer live in the jungle, which is a bummer, because our daughters never learned to swing from vines and build radios out of coconuts. We left, alas, before any coconuts were juiced by electrodes; we missed New England. I’ve taken down most posts I wrote in the jungle (my kids may learn to use the internet one day), but I leave neck cheese up as a public service. And also as a bit of shameless self-promotion:
Need words, by any chance? While I no longer write on my blog, I do write copy, articles, and anything else you might need. I’ve written about Bayesian statistics, developing nations, baby calculus and baby neck cheese. I fear no subject. I’m also writing a book. It’s not about neck cheese, but almost as good.
Thanks for reading, and good luck with the cheese. Here’s my email, just in cases:
jungletwins@gmail.com
-Chris
Oh my, this is hilarious. And so, so true.
Thank you for this blog! I feel so enlightened now! Neck cheese does seem to be a growing epidemic! I was at my docs office today and he advised me that in order to defrommage (not his words) my sons neck I needed to keep it dry and expose it to air……… uhhh…. My son has three chins right now… The cheese seems to cultivate under the third, or furthest chin, yet I’m supposed to expose it to air?! Ya, like that’s going to happen!
Anyways, my doc also said that I should put some cornstarch on it and that should help…
I don’t really want to put cornstarch on my baby’s neck, but if someone else is willing to try, please do report!
Love the indepth blog! Thanks for the laugh!
In reply to Sarah (nice name 😉 I did put cornstarch under dd’s neck each time I washed it worked like a charm to keep the cheese factor away. To apply I would sprinkle it on my hand then apply to her neck.
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
“Not to get too graphic, but if you use your hand, you will never get the smell out.”
Aaargh. Why didn’t I find this post an hour ago??? 🙂
love your sight. we all know the kiddos wearing head to toe gymboree (matching hair bow included) and smelling like freshly shredded asiago. you can dress em’ up….but eventually, they all smell like cheese. lol.
This post had me cracking up!!! And though I haven’t experienced baby neck cheese in quite awhile with my kids, reading this brought back memories of the awful smell. Definitely like roquefort to me, maybe even a bit of Havarti.
Sorry to be discouraging, but I found this post after googling “my baby smells like cheese,” and the baby I’m referring to is a 15 month old who never spits up, and has a distinguishable neck. I live in a very hot and humid climate, and despite bathing him sometimes twice a day, the smell lingers. Hmmm, maybe a website (www.neckcheese.com is available) and forum needs to be started. Support groups and t-shirts could follow…
Thank you for your insight. I’m a new first time mom and discovered my 5 week old has neck cheese. It takes both my mom and I to give her a bath everyday. We fight to get in there and still it stinks. But I will give your method a shot and hope it lessens it. Thank you again
It’s more like Neck Fish then cheese…
It all stinks either way!
Glad we’re not the only people experiencing this issue!
BTW: I used “baby neck smell” and Google brought me here. Put some Google Adsense ads on here, make some money off this topic!
I think the cheese smells like something dead! My hubby can’t smell so he was looking at me crazy untill this site. both my twin girls have this and I am glad someone has experiance and helpful info on it. Thanks.
yeah the other day i fell asleep on the floor while my baby was sleeping next to me somehow my finger must have touched her neck because when i woke up i thought someone had died on the carpet and my body absorbed the death smell… i couldn’t even locate it it was on my damn finger i could smell it no matter where my hand was that’s how potent this stuff is… took me an hour to figure out the aroma was eminating from my finger… and i couldn’t get the stench out… nor can i get the stench out of my babies neck no matter what i do lol… this is NAAASSTTTYYY
soooooo funny !!
i was laughing so hard when i read this i am now cleaning the pepsi off of my computer.
lol you’re so hilarious… had me laughing till tears. But i know exactly what you mean as my baby has the same odor from his neck folds. Glad to see that i’m not the only one with this. Good advice from this blog, thanks
This happens to my baby often, but only on one part of her neck, so at least I know where to find it if I do smell it.
I found that if I wash each neck fold during her daily bath it makes a difference. If it has gotten red and sore, after washing and drying the area, I apply Neosporin, an antibiotic powder. This helps it to heal overnight, quite literally.
If you live in a cold climate and don’t want to give your baby a full bath every day, you can wash the neck folds with a clean washcloth and a little baby soap and that should keep the problem at bay.
Reading this is so informative. It gave me a Really good laugh!!! When my baby had this cheesy smell, I didn’t know it was in her neck of layers until I detected it. Whew it’s powerful!
Okay, I’ve been on here for AGES trying to find out how to get my baby’s neck smelling NICE not … ummm DEAD!!! lol … and OMG … thank you for your post … I gotta definitely try it and see how it goes … I was told to put Talcum Powder on??? but it just wasn’t strong enough to even hide the bad smell even AFTER I had washed my daughter’s neck with baby soap … gosh that is some truly bad stuff!!! Love this site. Thanks a million. I’m a first time mum so this is excellent! 😀
Hey my daughther has this and we use burt flour (toast it in the oven till brown). It works similar to cornstarch but it’s more natural and less irritating on sensitive skin.
I was kissing my lil’ ladies neck the other day & noticed a “lovely” smell. I started investigating her folds…low & behold there it was (under her 3rd neck) Cheese, YAY! I’m a 1st time mama & have never heard of this before! Sad to say I do not think I found the cheese on time…her poor lil’ neck is bright red, smelly & oozy, everytime I go to wash it she screams her adorable head off! I called the doc. but she said nothing more then keep it clean & dry witch is BS, any thoughts…Yeast maybe??
Ah, thank you for not making me feel like a neglectful new mom after discovering my daughters stash of cheese today. But I wish I knew not to wipe it out with my finger ahead of time. Not even dish soap is getting the stink out.
I googled “smelly cheese baby chin stinks” and here I am. No further googling necessary. I got all the confirmation, affirmations, and laughs I ever needed right here. I have been using Desitin cream and find it nearly cleared up the redness and masked the stench. I may try cornstarch tomorrow though. Desitin is messy and now my other kids want to use it under their chins…it snowballed into a whole “thing.” These kids….(shaking head and laughing)
aaahahahaha, love this!
Loved the blog. My baby girl also suffers from that stinky smelly neck cheese. & you gave helpful tips. Thanks! 😉
I’m a first time mom reading this exactly 2 years after the original post. Thank you so much! My baby will be 2 months old this weekend and I only now discovered her neck cheese. I noticed that she was smelling like formula even after her bath last night, and that it was coming from her neck area. I opened up her neck folds to find red and shiny skin and some cheese. I tried to remedy the situation by cleaning it and then applying Penaten (diaper cream). This morning I had a look again and tried wiping/washing out the Penaten. Unfortunately Penaten is so thick that it was sticking to the dried flaking parts of her skin! To make matters worse, the skin was now open and there was a cut across her neck. She was howling! I had to fight back my tears as my husband held her neck folds open and I wiped with a wet cloth. After cleaning as best we could, I left my screaming baby and headed out to the pharmacy. The pharmacist suggested I wash the area with my fingers and water to avoid further irritation, dry the area by patting, and then apply some Polysporin cream. We gave her a bath this evening and followed the instructions. Baby finally stopped crying. I wish that the doctors would teach us about these things before we have to find out the hard way. It really broke my heart to see that cut and hear her cry in pain. My husband keeps teasing me with a smile, saying that I am a bad mother…nice to know that I am really not alone and that others have been there done that 🙂
Thank God for google and your site!!! U have been very helpful n answered all my questions. Phew I thought I had lost the plot I was constantly smelling fish!!! It was bad enough I was dry wretching! Ethan was a summer baby n a dry birth whereas Emmett came out when my membranes broke n he was like a wrinkly old man. At about 9 weeks he started smelling really fishy. I then started searching. Sure enough it was his neck folds. My girlfriend said to drop breastmilk in it that soothed the redness but sure enough the smell came back with vengeance! So to get rid of it as mentioned in the post a bath everyday n massage oil into folds. U r a legend thanks a million!!!
Hi,
I just noticed the yellow curds of smelly cheese in my week old baby girl’s neck. The skin looked red and angry which gave me and my hubby a fright! I noticed how smelly her neck was before and we did start calling her our little ‘foot’ (she smells like one lol). I cleaned the area out with q-tips and rubbed a little baby powder in the folds to keep the area dry I hope the problem goes away and most importantly I hope its not hurting her :(((
I Google’d “baby smells like cheese” because, well, I have a little Cheese all my own. Even straight from the bath she smells of Cheddar. I looked for neck cheese and found nothing. So I just call her cheese head…
Hilarious but so true. I finally found a product for this. Baby Silk Liquid Powder. It goes on like a lotion and dries like powder. It’s easier to apply than baby powder and it works. It just dries white and looks like I used a stick of deodorant on her. It smells nice too in comparison to the cheese stench!
THANK YOU!
hahaha I love babies.
Because they’re tasty.
I simply googled neck cheese. This website was the first. I noticed the redness before the smell. Smells like the stuff out of bellybuttons and earring holes. Ew!
Thank you! Finally someone else who thinks it smells like bellybutton! I thought neck cheese was a label all my own until googling how to clean baby’s neck folds. I was highly amused by the post, as well as educated. My three week old has the neck cheese, which, yes I did clean out with my finger (hence the belly button smell reference), but what worried my hubby and I was the redness that lie beneath the cheese. I am glad to know that I have caught it before it bleeds, and that oil is a good combattant to cheese. We are still working on burping more often. Also, being from Alaska we don’t shower every day so the cloth wipe neckbath is what it is.
I have 5 mo twin girls. I came upon this website b/c the smaller one has neck cheese. I especially appreciate the above comment because the bigger one, while she has avoided the neck cheese, has an F’ed up belly button that is so deep I have to clean it with a Q tip every day. How did I discover this? THE GODAWFUL SMELL!!!! Sigh….
hilarious..so true
My little girl is 5 months old and still suffers with this problem. Her neck fold is so far back i didnt notice it until it was really bad….how bad do we all feel when we find it? Worst mum ever ..thats what it feels like…..thanks for the laugh and the indepth explanation….loved it.
I have seven children the oldest being 21 and the youngest being two months. Therefore I am WELL aware of the cheese disease! That is why I have always referred to my kids as my “Little No Neck Monsters”.
I had to laugh as I read your post this afternoon. I was just commenting to my baby’s grandma that he has no neck and he always smells like sour milk/cheese around his neck. Your post made me laugh and reading other’s comments made me realize I am not alone in my quest to solve the ‘neck cheese’ issue. I like the baby oil idea!
my pediatrician recommended an anti-fungal foot cream
Oh my god, anti-fungal foot cream, that is so damn hilarious. That just tells you how serious the smell of babies’ necks really are.
I put a burp cloth under my baby’s chin to make sure no milk spills there and I always wash under all the folds with tons of baby bodywash but because fucking illinois is so damned humid and hot she smells only after a few hours after the bath and in a day or two it’s unbearable. I think I’ll try the baby powder because I think her sweat makes it smell that bad, plus drool cause she’s always sucking her hands, because I know no milk is getting there anymore. She also has this problem at her armpits only the smell is less bad, and the back of her ears start to really stink too after a day or so. =P
Thanks for your outlook!!
Hilarious and super helpful!
SOOO glad i found this link! almost 3 weeks old baby had been getting smellier & smellier despite bathing her everyday! In panic, we applied Sudocreme antiseptic ointment for diaper rash, and praying that her poor little raw, smelly neck heals QUICK! she screams everytime we go near it, and it pains me to think i never seen this! First time Mom, I live & learn! We had been calling her cheesy for a while, and not knowing why she still stinks, despite how hygienic we both are!
lol thank you for the info and the suggestions! my mom also told me a&d will work and so far so good. in the past two days it had decreased in redness by 50%. I felt so terrible when i found it but a bath everyday and a&d has been helping. lets see how it goes
Another possible solution is virgin coconut oil. Its a natural antifungal and smells lovely.
This is hilarious! I found this after searching for baby neck cheese to make sure that we weren’t not doing something to prevent it (I’m going to try cornstarch now). I usually joke that he gets so mad when I clean his neck because he wants to sell his neck cheese at the farmer’s market, and I’m messing with his production.
i just discovered this “cheese” last night and immediatly gave my 4 wk old daughter a bath, i thought all was good but about 10 minutes after the bath started to smell it again. Thanks everyone for all the advice, I will try the cornstarch or powder tonight after bath.
I never had this problem with my first child, but my newborn son stunk pretty much as soon as we got home from the hospital. At first I thought it was the top of his head. I would run a wipe over it every time I changed him, but the smell was still there. Then one day I caught a glimpse of the cheese. Like a big dummy, I took a wiff. Lesson learned! Anyhoo, my doc said to clean two times a day and apply Lamasil for a week. Yes, jock itch cream. It works! For cleaning, I used Babies R Us disposable wet/dry wash clothes. They are thin enough to get in between all those rolls.
Our doctor prescribed Lotrimin AH ointment (used for athletes foot). Clears it right up. First clean with a soft damp cloth or fingers w/ mild baby soap and water, then dry, then apply the ointment. Works wonders…
Thus is great and makes me feel so much better cause my dd has fishy cheesy smell, ick and I asked my friend and her baby doesn’t have it so I was so worried.
First time i noticed it was next to my brother in law abd I thought he stunk, I later told my hubby… Omg Chad stunk earlier.. then I continued to smell it through the evening and realized it was her, ahhh. I keep her bathed and lotioned and looking so cute in everything and SHE STINKS lol.
Thanks for the blog. Funny stuff!!
Hi. Your blog post was hilarious and true… I stumbled upon it by googling “infant smelly neck”. My 5 month old daughter has constant neck cheese… for months – “Bad mom alert” – and I wipe it several times a day with a baby wipe, or a washcloth and soap… I’ve tried baby powder and that didn’t help. I make sure it’s dry by blowing on it. Nothing really seems to work, but I’ll try the suggestions made by all the other moms! Hopefully something works cuz it’s pretty bad!
It worked…..polysporin is the Freaking Key…. Thanks good my 8 week old sleeped 8 hours last night thankyou thank you thank you
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Thanks for the tips! The burts bees is working awesome. Just wanted to add a tip my pediatrician told me… If you suspect a mild skin yeast infection but can’t see a doctor right away use a little conestant or monistate topical cream. Clears it right up.
Hilarious! I was freaking out about this problem until I read your post–thanks from a brand new mom!
wow teresa this was posted a longgg time ago. don’t get so emo this is just info and a little fun. chill mama lol
Haha! I’m a first-time mom and my 2 month daughter is a veritable fromagerie. I think my milk drops too quickly for her and it ends up running all down her chins into those lovely little ripening caves on her neck. The cheese does seem to irritate her skin, so while I haven’t been able to fix the “too much milk” problem, I’ve been trying to keep the cheese from sticking to her skin. Trying vasoline, but will try oil too. Thanks for a great post!! 🙂
Wow I’m so sorry to read that this problem has been going on for years and no one has cured the neck cheese. I very selfishly went back to work last week, and after 3 days of only seeing my twin girls (5 mos) in the dark, i discovered that my littlest one’s minor neck cheese ( nothing more offensive than a little Swiss) had turned to full blown ring-around-the-collar yeast infection. Thanks, nanny & husband. We are now covered in corn starch and I dug out the clotrimazole (6 mos past expiration date) to cover it this morning.
Thanks for making me laugh about it. When it comes right down to it, taking care of twin babies is simply ridiculous, and most days you can do nothing BUT laugh.
And fire the nanny.
I was laughing so hard reading this that my husband came in to check I was OK – he thought I’d gone hysterical. And as for my stinky-necked baby sitting on my lap…well it completely stopped her in her tracks. Great to know we’re not social lepers and there’s a whole army of them out there! Thanks for the giggle – I’m still smiling at your fantastic turn of phrase 🙂
lol love this! must say it was better than any other baby info I EVER had…ty bunches and keep it up! btw…I would have loved for you to be one of my teachers in hs…you would f-in ROCK!
My baby has a rash n now it gng all over da body I rlly dnt knw wat to do now n she’s only 3months 😦
hahahaha I have to agree this post is freakn hilarious and yes my hubby thought i was weird with tears rolling down my cheeks in hysterics until I read parts of this out loud!!! lol love the description and diagnosis lol awesome advice and yes you must have a way with words as this site got my attention nearly 5years later when googling baby powder on neck cheese!! you should write a book lmao thanks for cracking me up, I havn’t belly laughed like that in soooo long 🙂 🙂
My goodness – years after the original post, your blog on ‘neck cheese’ still has the power to make readers snicker to themselves while admiring delicious accuracy with which you have described this stinking epidemic. A round of applause is in order!
But mostly for retaining an remarkable sense of humour and the eloquence to decant that into a blog for other new mums desperately googling ‘neck cheese’, all while you are raising twins, is inspirational ( as well as your knowlege of cheese…) . And as the mum of 16 month old twins, to Theresa I say Back.The. Hell.Off. (and get a sense of perspective/humour while you are there)
This is so funny, wow what a talent for writing! Can’t wait to check out the rest of your site!! 😀
I used Aquaphor on my daughter’s neck and over night it got rid of the redness and the stink! I live by the stuff, it has gotten rid of bad cradle cap in two days and my daughter has never had a diaper rash once!
Good luck Mommies!
I’ve never had this problem! Does it perhaps only happen to formula-fed babies? My baby spits up all the time and milk drips down in there constantly, I don’t clean it too often, and his little neck just smells like baby. But I exclusively breastfeed. Would that make a difference? I’ve babysat formula-fed babies, and yes, their necks smell TERRIBLE! Well, at any rate, my baby doesn’t have the neck cheese smell, but he DOES have the awful, the terrible, (dun dun dun) HANDS THAT SMELL LIKE FEET! Ugh, he never seems to unclench those little adorable fingers, and they smell worse than his feet! Thank MY feet! haha! Mommy kissing fingers doesn’t happen too often in this house. Usually only after a bath.
Thank you so much for this post! I needed to laugh – how therapeutic! – and the suggestions were so helpful.
I used Polysporin on my sweet 7 week old and it worked perfectly. Thank you again!!!!
Here it is now 2013 and I just found this. 😉
I noticed the cheese smell is not only in folds of my babies neck but also behind his ears under armpits and in the creases of his little chubby legs lol he’s a little chubby guy and is bathed daily due to cheesy creases and I use baby powder to help dry and take away the cheese smell. I never thought to use massage oil or polysporin but i’m willing to give these a try.
Yr post is hilarious and I could totally relate to it. My 3 mth old has this ‘issue’ too and it smells like something died in there! After his bath, I normally dry it with Kleenex and swipe olive oil into the folds with a cotton ball. Works pretty well overnight and his neck wasn’t as sore or red as before. But I still need to monitor and give him his daily bath to get rid of any gunk.
Thank you for the article. My little one has this just now so I’ll try repeatedly washing it over the weekend then doctors on Monday.
Nobody tells you half the things that commonly occur!!
Just found the site (first one I came to). This has been informative and f—in hillarious!! Didn’t realize there are so many other women out there with my kind of sense of humor.
Thanks!!
An interesting discussion is definitely worth comment.
I do think that you ought to write more about this topic, it may not be a taboo matter but typically folks
don’t speak about these subjects. To the next!
Cheers!!
Spot on with this write-up, I actually believe this site needs far
more attention. I’ll probably be returning to read more, thanks for the information!
Love this, I will share to all my Facebook friends so they can get schooled on the acquired taste that is baby neck cheese. Who knows maybe it’ll be the next big hipster thing next to cockroach milk 😳
Now to my question. Can you tell the difference between neck cheese & the yeast infection ??
My almost 4 month old is struggling bad right now. Neck cheese & armpit cheese. I feel like I can’t keep up with it (mother of 5). She’s teething & had a weird rash for like two weeks been to the doc twice about it still don’t have a for sure answer what it is besides sensitive skin so we were perscribed a low hydrocortisone ointment for her whole body. And then to clean and dry the skin folds from the heat (having a super hot and dry summer) then add aquaphor to those areas. Tonight though in the fat creases in her diaper area were all red, wiped them and there were small amounts of blood. My poor girl 😞😞😞. Would love to hear your thoughts or some advice.
Leave her nappy off as much as possible is probably the best advice I can offer just from personal experience. You can buy big pads where you can lie her down to catch any pee and just change it when it gets wet but having her bum out should help.
You are golden. Thank you very much for your words of wisdom. No one has ever spoken wiser words about the crucial issue of baby neck cheese. I am forever grateful. And I laughed so hard my C-section started to hurt.
Thanks for this write- up,I really find it helpful
Hey, thank you for this post, our baby has 5 necks, she has huge cheeks, we bathed her nearly everyday(very hygienic) but We found this small after the third visit this “cheese” had grown worse the Dr. finally prescribed an anti fungal ointment, I felt so bad but now I know its more common then I thought. Thanks again for the great humerus post.