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Bathing Baby

Hey JellisyHey Jellisy
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How often do you bathe your LO?  At first we bathed weekly based on all the info I've read.  Since she's started solids, I give her a nightly scrub down, but still only do a bath once or twice a week.  Once DD starts crawling, it will be a whole other ballgame, but I didn't know when we were supposed to switch to more frequent baths.  DD doesn't smell and her hair doesn't get greasy so I assume she is OK.    
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From December 29, 2011
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  • SBMBride406SBMBride406
    We have always done a quick bath (10 minutes) every night. I worry about germs and DS has severe eczema and the bath helps open his pores for when I lather him up with lotion before bed. He is usually pretty dirty at this point (once they start feeding themselves, you find food EVERYWHERE, don't ask me how mac and cheese ends up in his diaper!).
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  • SofkaSofka

    for the 1st 3.5 mo we bathed DD every 2-3, maybe 4 days, b/c I believe there is such a thing as "too clean" and really, babies don't get dirty, esp in fall/winter when they are not even sweating

    but then we saw an allergist and she recommended bathing each night for 15-20 mins, not so much bathing really as keeping DD in water for that time; she had eczema and this much time in water helped her skin to absorb water and really moisturize her. as allergist put it "if we all submerged ourselves in water for 15-20 mins a day, we'd all have great skin." we also moisturize with aquaphor after each bath (and atopiclair for really bad eczema as needed).

     

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  • AgrippaAgrippa
    DS gets a bath every other night.  We've been doing that since last winter.  We used to alternate soap and no soap, but now he needs to be washed every time.
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  • kcita_234kcita_234
    we give DS a 5-10 min bath every other night- sometimes every night depending on how messy he's been.
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  • Gigs2000Gigs2000
    We recently moved up to 3 times a week from 2 times a week. He gets a major wipe down every day due to his messy eating. 
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  • tracy042206tracy042206

    DD#1 started needing a bath every night once she could walk and they went outside at daycare - just too much dirt daily to not get one.  Also once they start feeding themselves, it is definitely bath night every night.

    I only recently upped Molly to 2-3 times a week from once a week, because she randomly spits up a bit and starts to smell if I don't.  If they don't smell/aren't looking grimy, then I don't think they need one super often when they are small.  Now, if you want to make it part of the bedtime ritual and they really like it, then I would do it almost every night - this is what we did for Maggie as soon as she really started to enjoy bathtime.

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  • Hey JellisyHey Jellisy
    Thank you ladies.  I resolved recently to try to give a bath more often have failed miserably.  I need to work on my night time routine or delegate this to DH.  :) 
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  • BabyHatchBabyHatch
    We give one every night as part of the bedtime routine but she doesn't get soaped up every night.
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  • AgrippaAgrippa

    imageHey Jellisy:
    Thank you ladies.  I resolved recently to try to give a bath more often have failed miserably.  I need to work on my night time routine or delegate this to DH.  :) 

    DH and I have been alternating bedtime every two days since DS was 6 months old.  That way we each get a bath night and a non-bath night.  Whoever isn't putting him down gets a nice break.


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  • tracy042206tracy042206
    DH was on bath duty for Maggie as a baby, then he would hand her off to me for bedtime bottle and rocking to sleep - helped keep the nightly duties divided up evenly.  Now we split the kids for most nights with me taking Molly and him taking Maggie.
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  • ArtslvrArtslvr

    imageBabyHatch:
    We give one every night as part of the bedtime routine but she doesn't get soaped up every night.

    This exactly.

    We're big on the bedtime routine, so it has to do with that, not that we think she's dirty.

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