I am in SoCal and we are outside a lot and I have to admit - I think I'm a bit careless about putting sunscreen on LO. I have olive skin and don't burn easily so I rarely put sunscreen on myself unless I'll be in direct sun for more than an hour. I'm just curious - how often/under what circumstances do you put sunscreen on LO?
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We haven't had a summer with LO yet, and we live in Vancouver BC (Twilight was filmed here, as it intended to stand in for a city that gets so little sun vampires can thrive) so she's never worn sunscreen yet.
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I try to put it on LO if I know we will be in direct sun for a while. Like at the zoo and stuff. Saturday I forgot to put sunscreen on both of us and we were outside most of the day. I blocked the sun from LO all day and I ended up with a horrible sunburn. Luckily he didn't get burnt at all, but I need to throw some in the diaper bag for when I forget!
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I do in the summer or anytime it is really sunny. Unfortunately our winters are really grey.
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I don't unless we're going to be water for a long time with exposed skin. We stick to long sleeve light shirts and big hats. I don't feel comfortable with the ingredients in sunscreens (even the natural versions), especially not to use them on him multiple times a day.
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I do if it is going to be warm at all. Now that it is getting warmer where we are, it will be part of the morning routine. I am very pale and LO is somewhat pale but babies skin is so delicate.
I am not a huge fan of some of the ingredients in sunscreens but being Northern European I know that all it takes is one bad sunburn in childhood to drastically increase skin cancer risks later in life and I don't want to set my LO up with that risk. -
Once spring gets here and we start to actually see the sun I will! If I were you I would just make it part of your daily routine to go ahead and put sunscreen on your LO when you get her dressed in the morning. That way she'll have at least some protection even if you forget to put more on her before heading outside.
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I will once it gets a bit hotter here and they actually start going outside to the playground twice a day at daycare. I figure if I get a good coat in the morning and they do another coat in the afternoon she's pretty protected. I just do her arms legs and face.
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In the summer I do unless it's raining and we stay in.
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We put it on our preschooler every day before school but the little one only if she's going to be outside for a prolonged period like half an hour or more. Neither has ever burned.
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