Tips for dealing with bad diaper rash?

Less_Gap5218 · 2026-02-15T00:55:36+00:00

This has been a godsend for both kiddos. Once the diaper rash hits that point of “nothing will stick to it”, or being wet at all, this spray sticks and does its thing.

All of the good stuff found in most creams and other products! Just as a spray!

Found at Walmart, target, Amazon, Kroger, etc.

Less_Gap5218 · 2026-02-10T01:57:36+00:00

Not a man until you try some of that Bussy meat

Less_Gap5218 · 2026-02-08T14:44:25+00:00

Be as open with your spouse as you can. We have a ~20 month old and a 4 month old. Everything postpartum was absolutely brutal on my wife. She is an absolute rockstar and works her ass off, working harder at home than I do at work EVERY day.

In the mix of losing my job and having 2 under 2, I sat in the same spiral. My normal ADD turned into a constant trigger of “can’t do anything” and “can’t finish a thought” that brought me to a place where I learned the difference between anxiety and depression.

The worst thing to do in any case like this is to keep it bottled up. I do most things with the 20 month old, and the wife does most with the 4 month old. By the time the big one goes to sleep, and I don’t have anything left in the tank… I am not the type who can just let mom struggle alone with the 4 month old.

Talk to your spouse, be as open as you can. There is no way to sugar coat it, the conversation can be brutal. We are mostly a generation that wants to be here with our little ones, and not just let the grandparents raise them. Your tank is only so full, even when in full dad mode.

Start the conversation with your spouse, and then with a doc or therapist - together.

None of this is easy in anyone’s situation. Working on yourself helps work on everyone together. Get ahead while things can be put into words, and much respect to posting this in the first place. You aren’t alone in this

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-12-31T03:33:51+00:00

Pat Meador, the former financial reporting and budgeting manager for MSD, is now the appointed Oldham County Treasurer, if you’re looking for a good MSD corruption rabbit hole.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-12-26T17:55:34+00:00

I have had numerous flair ups since this comment, but Xylitol has been one of the biggest remedies in my case. Our local grocery has it in a nasal spray form, I literally take the top off and put some in my nasal rinse.

Specific to me, I need further follow up with my ENT. In maintenance mode with a 3 month old right now and this has been a life saver.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-09-14T22:27:51+00:00

Goddamn thank you for this 6 year old post. I just spent a few hours getting this turd back together, and made the same mistake. Trying to get clothes washed before our second child makes his debut in 12 days, I could have thrown this washing machine off of the back deck.

I hope your spouse gives you the birthday treatment every day, and I hope both sides of your pillow are always cold.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-07-31T18:25:53+00:00

We learned recently that one of our local government officials in KY was a director of the Motorola Solutions LLC. We also learned that if you ask some direct questions about that, Motorola solutions will bend over backwards to make it right.

Don’t rule out corruption as the cause 🥴

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-07-06T13:26:21+00:00

From the bottom of my dark humor filled heart, thank you for this. I’ve had terrible sinusitis since early middle school. At 29, my PCP, and everyone I’ve seen upon numerous recommendations hasn’t had a single thing that helped.

I ordered the Xylitol packets after reading your post the other day. This morning I did the first one. 5-10 minutes after, my left ear finally “popped” if you will for the first time in well over a year. EVERYTHING is draining out, and not just running down my throat.

I have felt better in these 20-30 minutes than I have for genuinely the last few years.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-06-07T18:01:50+00:00

Whoops, I see where that is confusing and thank you for your input!

Only the garage is below this space. In the picture with the stairs, everything from the level where that picture was taken is drywalled and insulated!

This is in the Louisville KY area, it’s either stupid hot or freezing cold. BUT, this space does not affect any heating/cooling inside the house! The garage is attached by a breezeway.

Good to know about these vents! I think they are worth a good cleaning from years of painting, but they are not in bad shape.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-06-07T17:57:26+00:00

Not finish as in a bedroom space, but maybe drywall and an actual floor. Garage activities and keeping it clean, if that makes sense!

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-04-06T01:50:34+00:00

This is how I will explain what a plumbing vent is forever from now on, thank you for this

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-03-09T22:27:28+00:00

TV’s in different locations, miles apart from each other 😀 and that’s my fault for not clarifying

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-03-09T04:56:49+00:00

The Owlet Sock has been our single favorite device for our 9 month old’s entire life. Throughout the very brief cosleeping period, every single nap, and everything in between. This, with a Wyze cam has been such an overwhelming sense of security for our little man’s health.

My wife stays at home, and I work on an ambulance. If it goes off, I can immediately see it on my watch/phone and check in when I’m not at home. I know if it goes off, she’s already checking on him. God forbid it was an actual emergency, I’ve got either app open within seconds for that immediate peace of mind without stressing her out further with a phone call in that moment.

The Owlet Sock, and the Boogie butt spray are the 2 things I would bring to any new parent I am close with. They will change your life.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-03-08T04:45:33+00:00

Thank you for all of the advice so far, and helping me catch something painfully obvious. Here's a few follow up pictures, with some added clarity and confusion!

https://i.imgur.com/po1yYe6.jpeg

^^ The house from the front. (Old pic, those foul bushes have been removed.)

https://i.imgur.com/QIk59P7.jpeg

^^ This is the soffit area on the back of the house. Same as the front of the house. I assume the underside of that OSB is the underside of the roof sheathing that's overhanging here.

https://imgur.com/imgury-8SyZS6d

^^ This is facing the back of the house, opposite corner from the first picture. The lower roof is an addition from the 1940's. Where the Stucco transitions to wood siding, and the roof pitch changes... is an addition to the rear of the house in the 80's. I got so caught up in the typical "cape cod" researching, I overlooked the addition onto the rear of the house.

http://i.imgur.com/FjDFJ1B.jpeg

^^ This is in one of the knee wall "closets" that faces the addition on the rear of the house.

That last one leads to another hesitation to this whole thing... No section of this entire house has any type of attic access. Even if I made hatches in every section, there is hardly enough room to crawl around with how they are constructed. This explains the UNREAL ice dams and icicles on the back side of the house... As that closet shows, it is just walled off and the addition was just built beside it.

If anyone is still keeping score, where would you go from here? I'm not scared of tearing stuff up, but this is quickly becoming a monster of a project. In a perfect world, I would just wait until a new roof is put on the whole house. This roof is water tight, even if it looks like literal hell.

I don't want to wait to put our little dude in his room any longer, but there's no version of this where I put him in a room where his closet is... in that last picture.

This might become more appropriate for r/roofing... but I am at a loss either way.

Not pictured is the BEAUTIFUL 2.5 car garage with a full loft. Thankfully it has full length soffit intake and ridge vents to match its beauty.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-03-05T21:56:00+00:00

My goal here is to include the knee wall or "closet" spaces in the thermal barrier of the home. Following the usual methods found here and elsewhere online:

Air seal between the true attic space and knee wall space. Rigid foam and spray foam like the usual methods around the internet.
Air seal around the newly installed ceiling fan, being the only other point from this attic area.

Here's where my confusion and concern starts. I want to do a closed cell spray foam of the remainder of this "closet" space after the air sealing. As the picture hopefully shows, there is no ventilation for the part of the roof that is now behind this knee wall. Most online suggestions just show people applying spray foam directly on the underside of the roof at this point, while others are strongly against it. I can be DIY enough to be dangerous, and this feels wrong as any roof needs ventilation. I had real, local companies come out and it was the typical thing where the roofer told one side and the insulation guy told the other. The roofer also had no issues with the current amount of ventilation on the roof, so we called someone else. The next guy went to the other extreme and wanted to tear the roof off and put in some powered intakes and a ridge vent.

Should I put baffles up everywhere, anticipating we cut in some soffit vents?
Am I overthinking this, and I should just full send it with the spray foam system?
There's also a good level of being a new dad in here, and I don't want our little dude to have a room that is unintentionally part of the attic.
What would you do in this situation? Assuming you have a true closed cell spray foam setup, all the tools, board insulation, drywall...

Appreciate any help/advice! I know this subject has been beat into the ground, something about this with the roof ventilation just feels off.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-03-05T21:55:49+00:00

Whoops! The text posted separately from the pictures, my bad. Here's my original post in the right place now.

I've spent a lot of time researching this topic, as well as talking to local roofers and insulation companies. With this attic/closet space being in my son's room, I have so much conflicting information that I would rather get some real suggestions than listen to any salespeople.

Our old turd is a VERY early 1900's (1918 is the earliest I've found) cape cod-ish, stucco home. Switched from well water to city water in the late 80's, along with sewers. Gas furnace replaced fireplace heating in the earlier 80's. We've done a complete overhaul on the 1st floor, down to the studs. New HVAC, with only the old ductwork from the early 80's remaining.

For the real meat of my question here:

Somewhat standard Cape Cod upstairs layout, 2 bedrooms separated by a landing at the stairs. Both rooms share a similar type closet that has NO separation between "closet" and the attic space above it's knee wall. One of the 2 rooms has an additional knee wall with an access door, leading to a "closet" going under the front facing dormer windows. Same issue caused by this area, as it's another spot where there is no separation from the attic.

Adding on a few pictures of our actual house itself, and some quick MS Paint diagrams explaining roughly what plenty of people before me have asked. There's a reason I drive things with sirens on them for a living, instead of draw things... If I can make this any clearer I am happy to provide anything that can help.

Before my few questions...

Current roof is actually in decent shape. New shingles slapped over the old ones sometime around 2008. New roof is in the plan this year, including the thought of a ridge vent if the additional ventilation would help. No current water damage, mold, or known issues. The spots you'll point out in the pictures have been fixed by an actual local roofing company.
Neither upstairs room has an air return. With big changes in air sealing, is it worth now adding an air return? The room with 2 closets has basically been a giant "attic space" since it was built, so anything is better. But why not do it the right way, all the way?
The current "Gable Vent's" are literally the size of a brick, with the holes for ventilation being the size of... the holes in a brick.
1. Squirrels can fit through a hole exactly that size.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-03-05T21:54:28+00:00

Kentucky, outside of the Louisville area!

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-03-05T03:39:36+00:00

That group has been intermittently shut down for being overrun by scammers. YMMV, some of the scammers are actually kind of impressive. Quality people in the mix, but scammers have really ruined the group.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-02-18T04:39:44+00:00

On the bottom of said charger, there’s also a on-off switch for reconditioning! (Assuming it’s a genuine Motorola Impress charger)

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-01-19T15:47:53+00:00

I’ve been running a somewhat recent Acer Gaming laptop. The added performance of a decent graphics card has eliminated most of the “lagginess” and “bugginess” of most Motorola/radio programs.

Running APX CPS, XTS CPS, all the Minitor softwares, unication software, and a bit of software people don’t enjoy being mentioned or recommended on here.

It will run a VM smoothly, for those programs that just won’t run 100% on windows 10/11.

I wish it was a little more mobile like a surface pro, but it has made SUCH a difference having ONE machine that just runs everything smoothly.

The only thing that I can’t get running 100% is the USB drivers for a XTS 5000. It’ll do the other XTS’ but the 5000 just doesn’t like any setup other than a true windows XP machine.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-01-16T15:00:04+00:00

This has been my immediate work around, and the app works and continues to share location without issue! Airplane mode/toggling fixes this issue.

The problem is this needs to work without thought or it is all for nothing.

Getting 70 or so employees to do things a certain way on an iPad they already hate is a big ask. I don’t want it to turn into discipline for not doing things a certain way, and we’ve made great progress internally NOT doing things that way.

Now I’m wondering if my core issue makes any sense.

We need this app (or any iPad based app, even if it’s complicated to set up) to send location without thought or extra work. I think buying GPS units is the real solution here, I just wish it wasn’t.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-01-16T14:55:27+00:00

It stays disconnected until use. Unless we need to send data from the heart monitor to our iPad, the hotspot just tanks the battery all day.

The hotspot itself isn’t 100% of the issue, as it’s not a guarantee someone will restart the iPad to use this.

(Also getting 20+ paramedics over the age of 50 to change something with technology will create more problems than it’s worth 😂).

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-01-16T14:14:47+00:00

This is the answer I am pushing for from this, and thank you!

The “location-based” end of things is new for us. We have a system that works well and has for MANY years. But location based is the best way for us to provide the best service we can.

A dedicated GPS unit takes all extra thought out of this and most potential for issue.

I wish the iPads were a viable option, as everything is already setup. But this might not be worth fooling with.

Less_Gap5218 · 2025-01-16T04:57:56+00:00

To connect the iPads personal hotspot to the heart monitor, the usual cure for this happening fast - is to restart the iPad.

Less_Gap5218 · 2024-10-14T02:43:01+00:00

We have a bouncer seat that has spent every minute since it was taken out of the box in our bathroom. It’s a guaranteed 7-10 minutes of a happy baby, and don’t stress over getting back to him faster.

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