Thanks everyone for your stories, they are really helpful in getting a picture for the attitude to newborn skincare Australia wide. My own experience was that I was told not to use anything for the first 6 weeks which is exactly what we did, but boytwin was in hospital at 2 weeks and they had him on a pediatric ward instead of a neonatal ward. In this ward they did not know the guidelines because they were not routinely looking after such young babies so they dunked him in a bath full of J&J chemicals and he has suffered from dry skin/eczema since then. He is the only one of my children who has such bad skin. Only an anecdote and of course it proves nothing but studies have shown that newborn skin is usually best left without anything other than water to cleanse it for the first month or so, and this allows the skin to prepare itself for childhood much better. Plus babies smell so delicious straight out the womb it's a shame to scrub all that off and cover it with perfume