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Infant swimwear
"DeliciousTruffles" wrote in message news:JQtvc.652922$Ig.179611@pd7tw2no... Jamie Clark wrote: These look good -- do you wear these without a diaper underneath? Do you have the baby (girl, in this case) wear a t-shirt or just go topless? Just curious. I don't really have a problem with topless at this age, but just curious what other people have done. T-shirts are never a good idea when swimming. They make your body work harder to stay warm. Really? I'm not doubting you but I can't imagine why. What's the science of that? I've been putting baby Meg in a t-shirt for the pool for sun coverage. As a child I generally wore a t-shirt over my bathing suit to avoid burning my shoulders and upper back, which are hard areas for an older child/adult to sunscreen herself. -- Dagny |
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"Jamie Clark" wrote in message hlink.net... These look good -- do you wear these without a diaper underneath? No, we don't. They are fecal containment pants already. I bring a second swim diaper to change into; but poo is so infrequent at Meg's age, it has not be necessary. Do you have the baby (girl, in this case) wear a t-shirt or just go topless? Just curious. I don't really have a problem with topless at this age, but just curious what other people have done. -- I'm an either kind of girl for this one. -- Dagny |
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"Dagny" wrote in message ... T-shirts are never a good idea when swimming. They make your body work harder to stay warm. Really? I'm not doubting you but I can't imagine why. What's the science of that? I've been putting baby Meg in a t-shirt for the pool for sun coverage. As a child I generally wore a t-shirt over my bathing suit to avoid burning my shoulders and upper back, which are hard areas for an older child/adult to sunscreen herself. I used to go white water rafting fairly frequently (yeah, pre-marriage and babies. What happened to my hobbies??? sigh), and the guides always recommmended against wearing cotton, because while polypropylene/fleece/wool, etc will get wet, the fibers will still keep you warm. Cotton fibers wick heat away from the body when wet, and so tend to chill the body. T-shirts are cotton, in general, so I imagine that is where the prohibition against cotton comes from. (That being said... unless the baby is going to be somewhere where she cannot remove the t-shirt when/if she gets cold (like white water rafting, for example), it doesn't seem to matter whether the baby wears a t-shirt. I keep Sarah in a cotton t to keep the sun off her.) Delicious Truffles, did I get it right? Donna |
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Donna wrote:
"Dagny" wrote in message ... T-shirts are never a good idea when swimming. They make your body work harder to stay warm. Really? I'm not doubting you but I can't imagine why. What's the science of that? I've been putting baby Meg in a t-shirt for the pool for sun coverage. As a child I generally wore a t-shirt over my bathing suit to avoid burning my shoulders and upper back, which are hard areas for an older child/adult to sunscreen herself. I used to go white water rafting fairly frequently (yeah, pre-marriage and babies. What happened to my hobbies??? sigh), and the guides always recommmended against wearing cotton, because while polypropylene/fleece/wool, etc will get wet, the fibers will still keep you warm. Cotton fibers wick heat away from the body when wet, and so tend to chill the body. T-shirts are cotton, in general, so I imagine that is where the prohibition against cotton comes from. (That being said... unless the baby is going to be somewhere where she cannot remove the t-shirt when/if she gets cold (like white water rafting, for example), it doesn't seem to matter whether the baby wears a t-shirt. I keep Sarah in a cotton t to keep the sun off her.) Delicious Truffles, did I get it right? Donna Yes. :-) Thanks. -- Brigitte aa #2145 http://ca.geocities.com/bironmonger/ Please excuse the quality. It is under construction and I am still learning. :-) "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." ~ Mary Pettibone Poole |
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"Donna" wrote and I snipped:
"Ilse Witch" wrote in message news Nothing should be just fine, or a basic swimsuit. We've been swimming with DS since he was 2m old, and he never ever pooped while in the water. So just give it a try without any of those expensive things to see how she does. Most baby's do fine. Every non-personal pool I've been to requires swim diapers of some kind. If the OP is going to be in her own pool, that's no big deal, but if it's anything but a family pool... I'd strongly recommend swim diapers. Sarah has never pooped in a pool, but she's certainly made a huge mess of the bathtub on occasion. I can't think of anything more embarrassing than scooping that kind of mess out of a public pool. shudder In community pools such as ours, the lifeguards will shut down the pool when this happens and "shock" the water. No one can swim there for hours. Personally, I wouldn't risk experimenting without a swim diaper on my baby in these conditions. -Patty, mom to Corinne (6y) and Nathan (4y) and stepmom to Victoria (14y) |
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Jamie Clark wrote:
wear a t-shirt or just go topless? Caterpillar, who just turned one, went to swim class in just a swim diaper. The other little girls all wore suits (either one-piece or bikini tops) over the swim diaper. The little boys all wore short-style suits over their swim diapers. Her pool required washable swim diapers. This summer, we'll go to the water park (outdoor pool), and she'll wear a Solarveil jacket and pants over the swim diaper, but that's just for sun protection. Phoebe |
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Donna wrote:
"Dagny" wrote in message ... T-shirts are never a good idea when swimming. They make your body work harder to stay warm. Really? I'm not doubting you but I can't imagine why. What's the science of that? I've been putting baby Meg in a t-shirt for the pool for sun coverage. As a child I generally wore a t-shirt over my bathing suit to avoid burning my shoulders and upper back, which are hard areas for an older child/adult to sunscreen herself. I used to go white water rafting fairly frequently (yeah, pre-marriage and babies. What happened to my hobbies??? sigh), and the guides always recommmended against wearing cotton, because while polypropylene/fleece/wool, etc will get wet, the fibers will still keep you warm. Cotton fibers wick heat away from the body when wet, and so tend to chill the body. T-shirts are cotton, in general, so I imagine that is where the prohibition against cotton comes from. I remember reading somewhere that a t-shirt only provides something like SPF-10 protection, so it's smart to use sunscreen in addition, or one of the specialized sun-blocking shirts. gloria p |
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"Puester" wrote in message ... I remember reading somewhere that a t-shirt only provides something like SPF-10 protection, so it's smart to use sunscreen in addition, or one of the specialized sun-blocking shirts. Funny you should mention that, Gloria. I *just* heard something about that on NPR this week. I had no idea that an average Tshirt gives so little coverage! That is kind of amazing. Donna |
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On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:00:35 -0400, Donna wrote:
Every non-personal pool I've been to requires swim diapers of some kind. Interesting. I've never come across this here, but we've only used one or two public pools so far. In the Netherlands, when we started babyswimming, they told us specifically not to use the swim diapers. I forgot why though... -- -- I mommy to DS (July '02) mommy to three tiny angels (28 Oct'03, 17 Feb'04 & 20 May'04) guardian of DH (33) |
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"Puester" wrote in message ... I remember reading somewhere that a t-shirt only provides something like SPF-10 protection, so it's smart to use sunscreen in addition, or one of the specialized sun-blocking shirts. I don't really understand that, because I have *never* gotten anything approaching a burn when out for hours in a T-shirt, no evidence of *any* sun exposure at all, and if I go out with my upper back or shoulders exposed without sunscreen (or even with, if I don't re-apply often enough), I definitely burn quite easily. --Helen |
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