when do you stop using baby products such as baby laundry detergent, baby safe household wipes, etc.? how old should your child be? (am i stuck paying more to buy the baby sutff for the rest of my life?)
How old is your child?
Mine is almost 2 1/2. I’ve NEVER used baby laundry detergent… Tide Free is what I’ve always used since I refused to buy "special" detergent. However, I still use baby bath soap, along with baby wipes and pull-ups (we’re working on potty training). Yesterday, I was thinking about switching his soap. It’s great soap, but it might be less expensive if we share.
I really don’t have an exact age since I still use plenty of baby items. But my personal opinion, you are the parent. No one can tell you how to raise your child. If you don’t want to use baby items, don’t. The only suggestion I would have is switch one item at a time. You never know what the child might be allergic to or have a sentimental issue with… i.e. baby shampoo equals bath and cuddletime. Switch an item, wait a week, if no "issues" make another switch.
Hope this helps.
April 23rd, 2010 at 12:41 pm
it depends on your baby. some babies are more sensitive than others. example: i still used "baby" laundry detergent for my 3 year old, cuz he gets a rash if i dont. but my 5 month old does just fine with any regular laundry detergent.
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April 23rd, 2010 at 1:04 pm
For the rest of your life…no! I don’t use baby laundry detergent anymore, i just use Tide now and have since my daughter was about 8 months old. I never had any problems. Safe household cleaners is all i use in my house, i use Green Works. She still uses Johnson’s baby shampoo, body wash, and lotion, and will until she’s alot older, maybe 5 or so, maybe even older than that. Baby wipes will always be in my house, they are so convenient and you can use them for practically everything!
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April 23rd, 2010 at 1:51 pm
dont stop, my son is 4 i still use baby products and i use them on myself to especially wipes, but as far as dreft detergent you can wash their clothes with regular detergen when they are 4, but i still use dreft even for myself because its best at getting out stains
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April 23rd, 2010 at 2:37 pm
umm Ive never used baby detergent. I do use green works for cleaning but thats just a personal choice. So i dont really use baby safe items like that. My daughter is 3 and my sons almost 6 months.
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April 23rd, 2010 at 3:13 pm
I never use those things. You should try regular laundry detergent and see how your baby reacts before paying extra for detergent you may not even need. I’ve always used Tide Original Powder detergent, even with a newborn, and never had one problem (and my girl has fair, sensitive skin).
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April 23rd, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Newborn. Depends on how your baby reacts to things. You can try using your regular detergent etc., just sometimes they give babies rashes. It depends on the baby.
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April 23rd, 2010 at 4:24 pm
The only thing that I really did was buy baby detergent and once the baby was one or walking I stopped using that. What is a baby safe houldhold wipe? I have never even heard of such a thing. I do know that bleach cleans everything and is safe for children and adults of all ages (afterall that is the only cleaning product that is supposed to be used in childcare facilities). But hey maybe I am a bad mom. But on the positive side my kids turned out just fine.
Some one sent me this as an email today and I think that it is a very appropriate end to this answer.
Those Born 1930-1979
READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON’T READ ANYTHING ELSE—VERY WELL STATED
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because,
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms…….
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in a nd talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke th e law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innov ation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them.CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!
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April 23rd, 2010 at 5:03 pm
You can use free and clear detergents for the laundry. You can use regular detergents in the laundry and rinse twice if baby seems to be bothered by them. My baby isn’t, so I just wash her clothes in with everyone else’s.
I would continue to use gentle cleansers for baby’s baths, however. Their skin isn’t ready for the rough soaps that we use. Around 2 years old is when I have transitioned my kids from baby soaps to gentle liquid soaps. You can try a baby at any time on the gentle liquid soaps to see if he reacts to them or not. My kids have so I wait longer.
You can use wet paper towels or wash clothes instead of baby wipes, if you want. There are many ways to get around paying ransoms for baby products.
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April 23rd, 2010 at 5:53 pm
How old is your child?
Mine is almost 2 1/2. I’ve NEVER used baby laundry detergent… Tide Free is what I’ve always used since I refused to buy "special" detergent. However, I still use baby bath soap, along with baby wipes and pull-ups (we’re working on potty training). Yesterday, I was thinking about switching his soap. It’s great soap, but it might be less expensive if we share.
I really don’t have an exact age since I still use plenty of baby items. But my personal opinion, you are the parent. No one can tell you how to raise your child. If you don’t want to use baby items, don’t. The only suggestion I would have is switch one item at a time. You never know what the child might be allergic to or have a sentimental issue with… i.e. baby shampoo equals bath and cuddletime. Switch an item, wait a week, if no "issues" make another switch.
Hope this helps.
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