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I think 4 days for me..... 2 days was pretty standard while I was on maternity leave!!!
DD rarely napped for longer than 30 minutes and during that time I would do household tasks downstairs. She's a super light sleeper and the shower wakes her up..... I could have found the time to shower while she was awake - a few times I put her in the rocker in the bathroom while I showered - but it was very low on my priority list to be honest! Plus my hair looks awful if I let it dry naturally and I'm dreaming (even now!) if I think she's going to stay happy sitting in the rocker/bumbo while I shower, blow dry *and* straighten!
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I aim for every day but some days it's just not possible. I don't feel comfortable leaving my LO to scream while I have my shower - and he has no middle ground when it comes to temper - so I usually shower when hubby gets home although that is up the chute if it's a bad evening like last night. DH is picking up a baby swing today so that might allow me a little bit of freedom.
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Maybe 24 hours. I shower two times a day, minimum.
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2 days. And it was out of laziness- not because of my babies. DS was a very "needy" baby and he slept on me a lot because that's the only way that he would. I'd put him in a swing right inside my bathroom door in the early days, in his walker once he got older. These days I usually shower in the early mornings before DH and the kids are up.
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prob 3-4 days when LO was a newborn. i'd often wait to shower until DH was home from work so he could hold LO
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@Glitter: you should be concerned. I couldn't believe it before I became a parent, but I soon realized it was true. It's only the first couple weeks though, promise!
Those newborn days? I'd go days...not because I didn't have time (LO slept well) but because I literally would forget out of businessiness and exhaustion and every time LO slept, I'd fall asleep too (not even on purpose!)
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Right now I shower every other day, but when dd was a newborn it was every day. I showered the day after my csection and every day thereafter. I just brought the bouncy chair into the bathroom and she slept while I showered. It's never been difficult for me to find time to shower, but DD's pretty low maintenance.
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I went on a week-long canoeing trip when I was in high school and I did wash my hair once (and was in water a lot), but not formal shower
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We went on a four day rafting trip a few years ago and I went 4 days. I've never been so happy to take a shower!
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When I was a peace corps volunteer I regularly went 1-wk plus without showering. In my defense, I lived in a house with no running water. I used wet wipes to wipe off my face and armpits and things, and I'd change undergarments daily. I'd mosey over to the boarding school where I worked to shower when I could, but it was awkward because it was in the middle of the courtyard with nowhere nearby to change.
The longest I went was like 22 or 23 days, during the dry season when water was quite often cut off. It also happened that at that time there was a transit strike, so I couldn't get to the nearby big city that was 2 hours away. As soon as the strike was over, I was on the first bus out of there, a months worth of laundry in my suitcase. I took the most glorious shower of my life that day as soon as I checked into my hostel.
So it looks like I'm way more dirty and gross than you guys
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@Glitter: not in my personal experience. I just put my baby in the Moses basket, and she hung out in the bathroom with me. If she cried, I made it quick. But showing was not optional for me.
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@Glitter: I am just going to throw it out there that, for me, finding time for a shower was not an issue. Babies sleep a lot, and a shower doesn't take that long. The problem was more that I was so exhausted that the thought of standing up when I could be plopped on the couch was unbearable...and drying my hair? Forget it. For me it was more likely that I would just be so busy that I would forget more so than that I couldn't have if I wanted to.
ETA - Also, happy momma is a priority too...so if a shower will make you feel human, 5 minutes away from the little one isn't going to hurt. So if he/she does happen to wake up crying while you are in the shower, honestly, so what. Bring the monitor in the bathroom, and get out asap if you need to. Your baby won't spontaneously combust if they have to wait a minute or two for you to get to them
I never brought lo with me into the bathroom...I just tried to shower while he was napping and put the monitor on the counter where I could hear it.
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@MrsTiz: there are lots of babies that aren't so 'easy peasy' you make it sound simple! (mine wasn't one of them, but I've known a few
)I second what @Mrs. Lion says, but I know it's easier to think/say that now, out of the new mom hormones and looking back!! I would often put LO in his bouncer seat in the bathroom with me. His sleep SUCKED and it was not worth it to shower, to hear him screaming unexpectedly and feel panicked, leaking milk, trying to get dry and dressed.
With that said, I showered multiple times a day when LO was a newborn because the postpartum bleeding/side effects grossed me out. Now, when he is 15 months?? Easily go 3 days! Dry shampoo! I'd rather be sewing than drying my hair
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5 days..... But I was backpacking through the bush.
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I think my max would be three days between showers when I was at Outward Bound? And when you have fourteen people living in close quarters you all smell the same anyway
I can honestly say that I've taken a shower every single day since Miss A was born seventeen months ago, it was always my first priority after eating breakfast as soon as she went down for a nap. Even on my worst days a daily shower was my sanity saver!
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Two words: "sit month"
I think I lasted two weeks before I begged my mom because I had a wedding to go to.
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2 days. I didn't feel like showering in the hospital after I had DD1.
Otherwise, I shower every day. Often 2x a day.
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A couple weeks after a surgery, they wouldn't let me. I did a sponge bath and dry shampoo, but it's just not the same.
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I shower every day. I might skip a day once or twice a year. Especially in the post-partum period, I felt so gross and smelly even at once a day...
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Never missed a shower due to my son - I either waited until he was napping or he would sit in a bouncy chair in the bathroom. Showering was like coffee for me, I needed it to get going in the morning.
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