I honestly don't get a chance to bathe ds often because evenings are so jam packed and he goes to bed so early! He gets a bath 2ish times a week. I was his hands and face a few times a day though. I mentioned this to a coworker and they were appalled that he isn't bathed daily! I felt like a failure!
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Almost every day. It is really hot here!
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We do bath time at 630/7 for both baby and toddler! Part of their bedtime routine!
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Uh 2ish times a week here too.
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Same as @mrsjyw: -- a bath is part of DD's bedtime routine. Only because she loves it, though! It stretches out her awake time a little (she's so tired after being at the sitter's all day) which means we get to sleep a little longer in the morning. We don't use soap every night, though.
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Once per week generally. Rarely twice. Washing too often dries the skin out.
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We only do baths 2x a week too. Haha! I wipe down her face, hands and diaper area every night. Good enough for me!
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Every night since starting solids. She gets SO messy after dinner. I also don't soap every night. I just wash her bum really well. I put CeraVe all over her body afterwards.
And she's in daycare and comes home filthy. No way, I'm putting either girls to bed without a bath on daycare nights! They bring home enough germs as it is. -
I used to do 1-2 times a week (and his doctor recommended this, too) to try not to irritate his super sensitive skin. I'd wash his face before bed, but that was really all he needed since his tushy got washed up with every diaper change and he wasn't dirty otherwise.
Now that he's 1 and much more active we do 3-5 times a week depending on how messy he is.
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2x per week here too! I try to plan messy dinners for nights when we were planning to give LO a bath anyway
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Um, DD1 got a bath as an infant religiously every second day. Poor DD2 gets one every 3...4....
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Not that often. About once a week.
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Once a week max for a bath. Of course the butt gets wiped with every diaper change, but they're babies! Other than poo they're really not getting dirty... At least mine didn't.
And she was the healthiest infant of any I've ever known--one cold in her entire first year of life and that was it. Not one other illness, no skin issues, no cradle cap, not even a fever. So clearly bathing her every week or two didn't hurt!
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Once or twice a week plus a daily face, neck and groin/butt wipe with a cloth. Don't feel like a failure, babies don't need to bathe daily until they are actually getting dirty!
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She bathes daily with her sister, since about 2 months. That being said, I don't think it's that weird to only bathe them a couple times a week. I usually only use soap on her once or twice a week and she just gets a rinse.
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1-2x a week
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Before starting solids - maybe 2-3 times / week. After solids he needs it every night.
My 3yo gets a nightly bath as part of her bedtime routine so I bathe them together now.
I hope you didn't really feel like a failure! You'd know if your own kid was dirty
Whatever works!
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@yellowbird: don't feel like a failure! He's still young enough where it's not necessary! When they get mobile and are eating solids regularly, it definitely gets harder to skip baths. Before solids I bathed the younger one every other night.
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DD is 10 Wks and we do it about twice a week bc she hates it. But tonight we actually had our first tear free bath so id love to do it a little more often, but not every day.
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Once or twice a week until she started crawling. Since then we do it roughly every other day, based on what we've done, where we've gone, etc.
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Ds is 3 weeks old and I've only given him about 3-4 real baths and several sponge baths. I'm aiming for every other day now, because he spits up so much.
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Once or twice a week. Once she's more mobile and gets grimy we will switch to nightly like my toddler.
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About twice a week. I'll make it part of her bedtime routine when she's a bit older (she's 3 months).
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Daily. She gets really sweaty.
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until he started crawling and we wanted to establish a bedtime "routine", he was bathed a couple of times per week. then somewhere between 6 and 8 months, we started to do it every day. now that he is almost 3 y.o., we are cutting is back to every other day, but sometimes 2 days in a row if he needs it.
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2 or 3 unless we have a major blowout!
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2-3 times a week unless she gets really dirty. Our doctor recommended every other night at the most, but said 1-2 times per week is fine, so definitely don't feel bad.
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Honestly, not gonna answer this because it's embarrassing. But it's hard to find a time after DH gets home when one of us isn't eating and she's awake! But I've definitely heard that every day isn't best, so don't feel bad!
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Twice a week here. Well, unless there is a poop explosion or something. I thought I read somewhere that it's not necessary to bathe them everyday.
ETA: My expecting multiples instructor told us it wasn't neccessary to bathe them everyday. She actually said sponge baths were better but we thought regular baths kept them warmer.
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3x/week. It's been our normal for a long time. Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday. The older just now started doing daily (hair still on the 3x/week rotation).
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LOs first bath at home wasn't until she was like 4-5 weeks old. Then it was 2-3x per week. Now every other day (she's 13 mo) unless she's super congested and needs steam and de-crusting before bed. We are lazy bathers. But better for her skin and microbiome! And her doctor is rather antibathing actually so that worked out.
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Every 3 days.
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There's totally no need to bathe an infant daily. Your co-worker is crazy. They aren't running around getting sweaty, or playing in mud puddles, or having food fights. We averaged between one and two times a week, and still do at 7 mos. Occasionally, he will warrant a third, due to an explosive poop, or super messy meal, but he always gets one after swim class. DS loves his baths, but ain't nobody got time for that every night! Well, some PP obviously do, but I don't.
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We're doing good if we can remember to do it once a week.
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3x a week at 6 weeks old.
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Rarely. Daily wipe with baby wipes, and she rarely gets sweaty. Frequent baths are just not required at this age if they're not getting overly sweaty or spit up covered.
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My baby is 6 mos and she usually gets a bath every night. She has a TON of hair and if we ever skip a day, it gets kind of greasy so I try to bathe her and wash her hair every night.
She insists on going to sleep at 8pm, not a minute after, so if something is going on and I don't have time to bathe her before then for whatever reason, we will skip it, but it's rare.
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Both my boys had daily baths as infants as part of their nighttime routine. We sometimes missed nights, but they liked it.
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1-2x a week at 5 months. I forget and he's not Barfy like his sister was
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We once went almost a month without bathing LO2, because we just forgot. Now that they can both easily take a bath together, we do it once or twice a week. We don't have a schedule, so we often wait until they've been playing in the mud or had a really messy dinner. (Babies are 8 months and 2 years.)
When LO1 was young, our pediatrician made a comment about how we hadn't evolved to need baths, so not to worry too much.
Whatever works!
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