Cloth Diaper Safe Diaper Rash Treatment

You won't want to use typical diaper rash creams with your cloth diapers.  If the fleece (the fabric against baby's skin) gets coated with cream such as A&D, Desitin, or the like, the diapers will wick moisture and leak.  Basically, these creams create a layer of waterproof substance on the diaper, not allowing moisture to be sucked down into the microfiber inserts.  A few times, if a rash was really bad, I have used a standard cream and then made sure to position the liner just right so that the cream didn't get on the diaper.  I then had to remember to throw out the liner at changing time though.  Honestly, this is not my favorite thing to do as I'm worried Kian will shift in a weird way and the cream will get on the diaper.  My kids have very sensitive skin and get diaper rashes easily, but actually, since switching to cloth, they RARELY have diaper rashes.  These days, I have found that when Kian DOES get a little red, a sprinkling of corn starch does the trick.  I learned this corn starch trick before I had kids when I was a babysitter.  Corn starch is cloth friendly.  My friend who also cloth diapers showed me how to pry the top off a baby powder bottle, dump out the baby powder, and pour the corn starch in there.  That works much better than my previous method of just storing it in a glass spice jar without a shaker lid.  The shaker lid is convenient.