Right now we aim to do a bath every 2 days, but often we only do one every 3 days. By day #3 DD smells kind of gross. (She seems to accumulate spit up in the folds of her neck. Yuck!) I love my clean baby, so I think I need to start prioritizing baths every 1-2 days. How often do the rest of you give your babies a bath?
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My babys belly button hasnt fallen off yet so I wipe her down with a wash cloth and warm water. I do it every day. Somedays I feel lazy and feel like skipping it but she looks and smells so much better if I do. When her belly button falls off I plan to give her a quick bath every night as part of her bed time routine... we'll see how it works out though
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Every night! It's part of her bedtime routine.
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Right now we aim for every two days, sometimes we miss a night, sometimes if she's stinky she gets two in a row. I just love the way she smells after tubby time....... Maybe we should have Nightly baths?
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Every night
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Every night - it's part of her bedtime routine.
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You all are such good mommies! I would love to do a bath every night before bedtime, but I have no idea how to find the time. DH gets home at 7:30 PM. By the time we have dinner, pick up around the house, and do a bedtime feeding for our LO, there usually is no time for a bath. So I have to squeeze in her bath before DH gets home, which only works if we already have something in the fridge for dinner. I clearly need to figure out a better routine...
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@chopsuey119: @Rubies: Baths are part of our kids' bedtime routines too!
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@skibobrown: How old is your LO?
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@Rubies: She's only 4 weeks... so we're still figuring things out.
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We've been doing it every other day but am thinking about switching to every day so it's really a part of her routine. But I think we'll stick to soap every other day. She loves baths.....getting into her PJs is another story.
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Once a week. If she's lucky. I am so terrible! She's my second and only 3 months old, so...well her hair does get a bit funny but I swear she doesn't smell.
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@Hanasu: Sounds like me! about once a week, she's my second, and is almost 3 months old!
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@Rosie Girl: Hooray! I'm not alone!
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Thanks for this thread! I guess I always assumed that people did this daily, but I read something about not doing it daily recently, and so I was wondering what people really do!
Bump!
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DS usually gets one every night as part of his bedtime routine. Sometimes we'll skip it if we have to but he really loves bath time and I love how good he smells post-bath.
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He loves bathing, so I am starting to do every day. Mine is in the morning when I am energetic.....plus I feel like he gets all covered in milk overnight and I am not as good at wiping up his bum during night changes, so the morning bath gets him clean again.
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Before 4 months, every 3 days. Anymore dried out his skin too much. I did do a good wipedown at night though.
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@skibobrown: Oh yeah - LO only got a bath every 2-3 days when she was a newborn...Only when she was about 3.5 months did a bath become a nightly thing.
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We are still every other night but need to increase it to every night now that shes crawling around.
As much as I don't want to, I think we may have to get one of those "ducky" tubs because filling up the bath every night wastes a lot of water and she only stays in for like 5 minutes.
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We do a bath about twice a week, she has dry skin (but not eczema) so we were told to limit baths as much as possible. As she is getting older we are reconsidering because she is more active and getting into all sort of thing (i.e. dirt and mud puddles mainly)
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When she was a newborn we did it every 2-3 days. Now that she's 9 months, we do it every day, but soap every other day.
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We used to bathe our LO twice a week at the most because she hated it and would scream the whole time. It was just miserable for all of us. But she's 4 months now and she's been liking it a lot more, so I'm trying to work it into our bedtime routine!
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Our little dude is 6.5 months now, and his bath is part of his bedtime routine each night. We started that when he was little over 4 months. Before that it was... twice a week? New babies just don't get very dirty (and with really new babies, it's hard to have any kind of real routine!). Now he's crawling around and smearing food all over himself a couple of times a day, so he kind of needs a bath by the evening!
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@miranlee: I hear you! PB loves getting stripped down and in to the bath, but he gets so cranky when I'm drying him off and getting his PJs on!
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DD gets in the bath every night, but I only wash her and DS twice a week. However, both of them get their hands and faces washed every morning and every night.
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real bath every other day and a good wipe down on the days in between. we are out the door at 630 am and don't get home until 630pm so every day is hard especially with LO wanting to be asleep by 715 most nights.
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