We are finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel after a two-week battle with Spud’s eczema. And this time, without the use of the Protopic cream or seeing yet another useless Pediatrician.

We decided to do some home-treatment with the use of natural, fragrance-free hypoallergenic creams/ lotions which came recommended by well-meaning friends, acquaintances as well as the holy grail of Google. I think we may have even start a small collection of moisturizers!

So far, neither Vaseline nor Beeswax had worked as Spud’s condition did not improve even after using them liberally for at least 2 days. This was on top of me cutting out all possible allergy triggers from my diet since last week. So yes, I have literally stopped consuming any food with wheat, chocolates, nuts, dairy [including butter, ghee which unfortunately extends to cake :’( ], eggs and seafood. For at least two weeks. Tsk tsk tsk. The things I do these days! (Spud better be grateful!)

However, I was pleasantly surprised with the California Baby Calendula Cream. It actually seemed to be working! Now, I am not sure if it is my diet or the cream, but I dare say that Spud’s skin made quite a visible improvement on just the second day of usage. By the fourth day, her skin appeared so much calmer. There certainly has been a stark improvement in her skin condition as depicted in the picture here, taken after 5 days of use.

For that, I am inclined to think that the Calendula cream might have helped. In fact, her mood has improved tremendously, too. Truth be told, I have not seen her any calmer or happier before! She really is a happy baby.

We shall see in about 2 weeks if it is the works of the cream as I’ll start re-introducing back the food to my diet. Fingers crossed.

It seems like Spud has taken an affinity to alternative music. I have accidentally discovered this new little trick in my bid to calm her down as she wailed in hunger while we were royally stuck in traffic one evening. Even though I was sitting right next to her, it was quite tricky to get her out of the child-seat to breastfeed without accidentally bumping her head and fragile body in our tiny Honda City. Hence, I tried all I could to distract her and as a last resort, started fiddling with the ring tones and songs available on my phone.

She almost immediately calmed down with these: 
** Supergrass’s Alright,
** The Who’s Pinball Wizard and
** Supertramps’ Logical Song.

She cried at Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours

I also realise that sometimes things may have the tendency to not work the next time round. As dubious as the above sounded, I gave it a shot a few times more thereafter whenever she has her crying bouts. So far it worked like a charm! I can only grin from ear to ear at the choices of songs that calmed her down. Screw Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars!

I guess Moms do have a tendency of figuring things out! :p