Homemade Baby Shower Centerpieces For Your Next Baby Shower

Whether you are manufacture homemade baby showers centerpiece for the food table or the gift table, you can unquestionably come up and generate you own masterpiece. Creativity goes a long way and saves a lot of money! When you begin brainstorming centerpiece ideas, revert back to your full, theme. If the mommy-to-be is having a boy and you have a shower that focuses on all the separate sports, then maybe you could have a toy wagon or Tonka truck full of toddler sport equipment. If it is a gorgeous baby girl that is expected them you could Care Bears in Diapers as their pastel colors would be perfect.

For the food table, your centerpiece should be your cake, or a diaper cake. A diaper cake is a non-edible creative "cake" made of diapers with baby shower gifts attached to it. You can place it in a cake dish if you would like for an added effect. The diaper cake would look just as great on the gift table and can serve as both a gift and a centerpiece. You could also place little pacifiers, bottles, or carriages, (found at your local Dollar Tree), around the food table. an additional one cute idea for the food table include a basket lined with a clean baby receiving blanket and filled with cookies. For the final touch to the "cookie basket" add a bottle filled with pastel colored m&m's! If your theme involves rubber ducks, why not add a baby bathtub filled with punch to your food table with floating rubber ducks.

For the centerpiece of the guest's tables, you could use:

• Candles shaped like baby bottles
• Remove the nipple from baby bottles and use the base as a vase; insert fresh or artificial flowers
• Remove the nipple from the baby bottle and insert candy
• Styrofoam Baby Bootie Cups - these are adorable baby booties made from styrofoam cups that you can insert mints, jelly beans, etc. In.
• Alphabet Blocks

The gift table could unquestionably go without a centerpiece for an uncostly baby shower as it is likely to be absorbing and colorful with all the wrapped gifts. As stated earlier, the diaper cake would be perfect. Other great ideas include:

• Diaper wreath - this could also be hung on the delivery room door
• Balloons - by themselves or attached to a diaper stuffed animal or floral arrangement
• Floral arrangement

Making your own centerpiece is easier than you think and you will wow your guests and yourself with these great ideas.

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Don't Confuse Your Baby's Yeast Infections With Diaper Rash

Don't Confuse Your Baby's Yeast Infections With Diaper Rash

Yeast infections that influence a baby's diaper area not the same thing as diaper rash. Unfortunately, many well meaning parents use quarterly diaper cream and baby powder on the yeast infection and this will do nothing to cure it.

A yeast infection is separate from a diaper rash in that it appears as a flat, red rash with scalloped edges that have any tiny rashes around it. A yeast infection rash may enlarge along the pubic area and onto the lower part of the baby's abdomen.

The yeast infections that influence babies are called Candidas albicans, which is the most coarse cause of all types of yeast infections. A pediatrician can decree either a rash on the groin or a thrush in the mouth of babies is a yeast infection. To get a exact analysis the physician may peruse the scrapings of a yeast infection under a microscope.

Babies who are on antibiotics or who are being breastfed by mothers who are taking antibiotics are at higher risk for yeast infections. That's because antibiotics kill the good bacteria in the body that keep yeast in check. Without these bacteria around, yeast and grow more abundantly.

While applying diaper cream may bring your baby temporary relief from the itching and soreness it will not heal the infection. Without allowable treatment, a yeast infection in the baby's diaper area will get progressively worse.

Anti-fungal medications are the only types of treatment that can get rid of yeast infections. Some pediatricians might write a prescription for Nystatin while others may recommend and over the counter treatment like Lotrim Af to treat the diaper yeast infection.

Using antifungal cream, soaking the baby in warm water two times a day and frequent diaper changes will normally clear up a yeast infection within a few days. While you are treating the yeast infection make sure that your baby's diapers are loose sufficient to let air in. When changing your child's diapers, make sure the skin on his buttocks and groin area is clean and dry.

Some holistic medical practitioners advocate the use of a diaper cream containing tea tree oil to help clear yeast infections in the diaper area. Others recommend using aloe or pressing damp chamomile teabags directly on the baby's rash. If the yeast persists for more than a week or if your baby has fever or chills you should consult with your pediatrician.

Yeast infections in baby's can occur despite our best efforts. However, frequent diaper changes can decrease the chances of an infection occurring. Children with yeast infections in the diaper area should not be excluded from daycare because these types of infections are not contagious.

If your baby recently had thrush (a yeast infection in the mouth), her or she may end up with a yeast infection in the diaper area, too. That's because yeast passes straight through your baby's digestive system when he eats and winds up in his stool, which ultimately lands in his diaper right next to his warm, damp skin. Yeast thrives in warm, damp environments.

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