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That was my first thought, too, but a new toothpaste is about the only thing I could think of. It’s not significantly worse this morning, but there are splotches up and down both legs, and then a ton in the diaper area. She slept fine, though, and they don’t seem to hurt her. I think I may call the doctor this morning just to be safe since it’s Friday.

@bhbee: I did call the doctor, because I found a splotch on her face. I'll report back!

@bees_knees: That's what I'm starting to suspect. We didn't get a new kind of detergent, but we did get a new box of detergent, and occasionally my mom washes things at her house after she watches her. I'm washing all of her things in baby detergent right now... still no call back from her doctor, which is frustrating since it's a Friday. I also just changed a mucous-y diaper (TMI), so wondering if she just has some low-grade viral thing? But that can be an allergy sign, too. I'm allergic to corn, so keeping an eye on that with her over the next few days... She's still totally fine otherwise, and the "diaper rash" (if that's what it was) has mostly cleared, leaving the rash mostly on her legs, arms, and a bit on her face.

The doctor finally called me back that day (low priority, I totally get it). She said she thought it could be viral or an allergy, and we could come in if we wanted. I opted out of it.

But as a sort of non-update follow-up, I'm beginning to strongly suspect a corn allergy. I'm allergic to corn, although it didn't develop until I was in college. My pregnancies improved it a ton, and generally speaking, I can eat corn now. So for now, we've cut corn completely for her, and she has a well-child on November 9th, so I'll discuss with the doctor then.

@bhbee: No. Even at its worst, I only tried to avoid full corn products (popcorn was actually my first trigger, and the only one for a long time; my doctor thought I was insane). But occasionally I'd react to something with just vegetable oil in it. I could eat whole ears of corn sometimes with no trouble and other times just a little bit would set it off. I get a "minor" reaction around my mouth first, so my doctor encouraged me to keep eating the products, but stop if I got the minor reaction. That usually prevented the hives. But I do carry an epi-pen, just in case. I think even the allergist was surprised when I tested positive for it given my weird symptoms.

But when I was first diagnosed, I spent a lot of time reading, and corn is in EVERYTHING. I'm really hoping I'm wrong or that she'll grow out of it, because it would be a pain.

I was so surprised (and pleased) when my pregnancies altered this for me. DD is my last, so I'm hoping the changes last and I don't have to go back to dealing with it regularly.