If the baby has dry skin, minor cracking what is the best thing to use on “newborn” skin?
Nearly all neonates have dried, flaking, cracking skin. This usually lasts four to five weeks. Every lotion, cream, and oil has been tried to stop this process, but basically none of them are effective. It seems as if the skin of newborns just has to peel. Think of the flaking and cracking as shedding “fetal skin”. There is no need to put anything on the skin. At the end of the first month of life, babies start getting soft, moist, beautiful skin.
