@snjeri Lol, tell me about it - when I first found him like that in the morning I was like, excuse me but wtf do you think you are doing, sir, because I was reliably informed that you would stay where I put you for ages yet
not all babies will do it of course, but definitely not something you want to find out the hard way if yours can! I would probably say you could maybe fold some blankets along the other three edges to make a nice soft landing pad that’s maybe at the 3cm level, and then your LO would have to keep wriggling off THAT to hit the floor, and it’s very unlikely they’d make it that far before you woke up to feed them.
The cream we use is called Metanium, and it’s great (the yellow one is the antiseptic rash cream, the white one is just preventative barrier cream). Sudocrem is another one that’s very popular. I think any own brand antiseptic cream that’s suitable for open wounds would be fine though (that’s basically what nappy rash is if it’s bad, it looks like a steam burn). Fortunately we’ve only had it after his vaccinations, because the rotavirus one makes their poo quite caustic, so it’s not been a regular occurrence at all, but like I say, it’s awful when you open their nappy and see their poor bottom all red and sore - I debated getting some because cloth babies are supposed to hardly get it, but I was so glad I did, because I would not have wanted to have to put a nappy back on him knowing as soon as he peed it would be going on his sores. Make sure you use a liner or even a disposable whilst the cream is on though, as some creams affect the absorbency of cloth (coconut oil does not, which is why it’s recommended as a barrier cream). We used disposables for the first week until his stump dropped off and the meconium was gone, so we still had most of the pack left, so when he had a rash we just used them until the end of the day and switched back to cloth the next morning. A lot of companies will give you a free trial pack of disposables, so if you can gather a couple, you might find them useful for those times!
we use cloth and coconut oil is basically all we have needed as a cream, though you’ll probably want to have some antiseptic cream in house too, because it’s not super expensive but if your baby has a sore bottom in the middle of the night, you won’t want to wait until morning to treat it. It doesn’t happen regularly with cloth in my experience, but it can still happen.
But def worth having at least one pack of disposables just in case.