Carl Evans 🥉

The parent tip is spot on; in Arizona the air will pull water out if you don’t trap it so try applying your cream to slightly damp skin and seal with a thin layer of petrolatum or a dimethicone balm and especially at night. Also check your cleanser - foaming or exfoliating washes and hot water can strip your barrier and make any moisturizer seem useless. A bedside humidifier plus a ceramide/cholesterol cream by day and an occlusive at night usually turns things around within a week or two.

Backing this - use a thick “frosting” layer of 40% zinc oxide and don’t scrub between changes. Add some diaper‑free air time daily and switch to truly fragrance‑free diapers and water-only wipes; skip “natural” creams with botanicals or essential oils which often sting sensitive skin. Look for a short ingredient list (zinc oxide active with petrolatum or lanolin base), apply at every change and extra‑thick overnight; if it turns beefy red with little dots, that often means yeast and needs the pediatrician.

I remember when we were in your shoes, expecting our first and stressing about the monitor cutting out downstairs... In a two-story house, you want something with strong signal strength that doesn't rely on spotty WiFi, maybe a dedicated frequency to punch through those floors. that model capability gives peace of mind, and night vision is essential for dark nurseries, no question. We stuck to a $100 budget and prioritized long battery life so we could carry it around without plugging in every hour. made a huge difference and and we haven't had dropouts since switching to one with better range. Oh, and check user reviews for real-world reliability in multi-level homes, that helped us narrow it down.

Those apps are engineered to beat you. Willpower will lose at midnight. Change the environment or nothing changes. Kill notifications, block or uninstall the worst ones after 9, and make your bed a no‑phone zone.

Your optical test makes sense and also explains why it did not help. Optical drops the lip sync metadata and forces compressed audio which often increases buffering. HDMI with Passthrough gives you the shortest path. Set the console to PCM, set the TV to Passthrough, disable TV sound effects, and run the bar in a basic mode. If it is still behind, add a bit of video delay on the TV for that input and you should be good.