The last time I bathed Wavy, I noticed that her scalp was pretty dry. I combed through her hair while she was in the sink (yup, don’t judge) and there were some pretty decent flakes. But when her bath was done and her hair dried, there were no flakes left. I figured I had magically solved our “issue” with my quick comb job.
Yesterday, I remembered what had happened and figured I’d run a comb through her hair, since thats what we’re all supposed to do for our babies, and WOW! SO many flakes!!! Upon checking her scalp, I could see just how crazy dry it was. Time to oil that little head of hair up!
I’m not looking for tips on how to rid their head of cradle cap. We’ve dealt with it a handful of times and know our way around. She was suuuuuper oily for the evening, which not only provided entertainment for me, but she also seemed super happy with the result of her new ‘do.
She was not a fan of the bath to follow, but she was fine, and fell asleep the moment she was all dried off, diapered, and dressed.
We’ve still got flakes, so another treatment or two is in her future, but thats fine. A small problem to fix.
THIS is my question.
Waverly has curly hair. I do not, and am somewhat uncertain of the rules. I DO know that you’re not supposed to brush/comb curls out, and I don’t really want to! I love when they’re fresh, defined curls! But then how do I keep the whole dry scalp business at bay? The general rule is to brush baby’s hair every day, but do people do that when they have curly babies too? Help me, guys!! How do people keep their curly babies curly?!