I was cleaning one of Savannah's ear lobes today as it's got a bit of what I think is cradle cap but the MCHN think is eczema... and I noticed that the inside of her ears had a bit of gunk there right near the lobe part. I grabbed a quetip from the bathroom, wet the end and just gently cleaned the gunk I could see. It wasn't even really inside her ear, more just near the edge.

Anyway, when I removed a very gunky quetip, this prompted me to look further. I noticed the inside was in need of a clean, and when I looked behind the ear, I found that too needed a clean right in the skin fold. I started to feel like a really neglecting parent for a minute lol.

I wet a cotton ball and folded it so there were "edges" sort of and used that to clean the skin fold behind her ear. And used another wet one to sort of clean inside her ear - not in the ear canal part, just in the inside like around the top where the bendy curves are etc. I'd never stick anything "in" her ear.

I was just wondering if anyone had some good tips on how to keep her ears clean, especially the part that's sort of in the middle. My finger + cotton ball is fine for the top, but I can't fit it in the middle section, and I'm scared putting a quetip in there.

How do you clean their ears? Bearing in mind she's only 6 weeks old...