Cradle Crap

When Penny was just a “wee-bairn” one of our neighbors asked: “Does she have cradle cap? Oh, boy, I remember having such a hard time with that cradle cap.”

Well, being the new and innocent parents that we were, we had not seen any cradle cap on our child’s head…nor did we really know what it was!

So imagine our surprise when not a week later the pediatrician mentioned, “Oh, she has a little cradle cap. Some lotion should take care of that.”

It didn’t. Months have gone by and we still hear the voice of our neighbor echoing in our ears: “Does she have cradle cap.” And the naïve response, “uh, uh…no. Not her.” It’s as if our neighbor was a seer or mystic, trying to forewarn us of the horror, the annoyance, the crud.

Now we can’t seem to get rid of it. The yellowish flakes still appear when we brush her hair in the morning, and we don’t dare dress her in black! In desperation, we recently took the advice of a sister and rubbed olive oil over her scalp…and then washed out the olive oil with Dawn. It seems to have helped; that, and a good comb. But the flakes still linger.

How long did you or your children suffer with cradle cap?
	My children are hygienic angles; they never had it.
	I was bald past one, so it was easy for my parents to eradicate.
	My children still have it.
	I still do not wear black.
	What is cradle cap?
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