Healthy stuff
The plank exercise is a great way to build endurance in your core: abs, hips, and back. The better your core the better your running form. And if you’re doing the 100Pushups program then planking will come in handy as it is also great for building strength for pushups.
The other day bebeJosito developed a rash across his back from one shoulder to the other. My wife and I chalked it up as a heat rash. Three days later, in the middle of a beautiful Saturday afternoon, the little guy broke out with a fever. A little bit of Tylenol and the fever subsided. A few hours later the fever returned with a vengeance.
This time it neared 103F, and was accompanied by a bit of vomit and a stomach ache. My wife called our pediatrician’s after hours hotline and was told to continue with the Tylenol for now, and call again in the morning if there was no improvement.
As if babies don’t scream and cry enough, wait until your kid gets a bad case of diaper rash. Common among babies between 4 and 15 months, diaper rash is caused by infection with a yeast or fungus called Candida. And where does candida thrive? Where it’s warm and moist—like your baby’s diaper.
To treat diaper rash you could just go to a pharmacy and buy a jar or tube of butt paste, monkey butt, DESITIN, or A+D. Many homemade remedies include some of the former with a bit of corn starch (an ingredient that can make a yeast diaper rash worse). The homemade butt paste I’m proposing is awesome. It’s close enough to butt paste, costs a wee more (a 16 oz. jar of BP costs $18) and works much better.
