If you include a bath as part of your nighttime routine, when did you start?
Sadie is 5 weeks, and gets 2-3 regular nighttime baths a week, and a "sponge bath" in the morning on the other days. I'm just wondering when I should start a nightly routine with a bath.
blogger / pomegranate / 3201 posts
I don't remember exactly, but we were definitely doing it by 3 months. That was when we started an early bedtime and really solidified our routine and he started sleeping through the night about a month later.
pear / 1769 posts
We started seriously doing them around 2 months. Until then, we didn't have a schedule, just whenever we felt like it. Our Pediatrician said that since baby's don't get that dirty and don't have BO, there was no need to rush into it. We only started doing it in hopes that it helped make her bedtime easier. We also only use soap every other night.
pomelo / 5524 posts
We really started doing the nightly baths around 3 months. It really helped with getting him down at night for us.
bananas / 9357 posts
I think around 6 weeks. We just did it to establish a bedtime routine in hopes of helping him sleep longer. We didn't always use soap.
coconut / 8299 posts
We started more of a night time routine at around 3 months, when her sleep started regulating more. Before that, we just went with the flow.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
Not until I went back to work. While I was on maternity leave, I usually bathed her in the mornings before we went out somewhere.
Now, I like to wash the daycare germs off of her at night. And that means one less thing to do in the mornings during the hustle and bustle to get out the door on time 
grapefruit / 4278 posts
We started around 6 weeks to establish a bedtime routine also. We only used soap every 3rd day or so but having a routine definitely helped him go down at night without much fuss.
coconut / 8498 posts
10 months :). We bathed her every other or every third day until about 2 weeks ago.
kiwi / 640 posts
around 3-4 months. I started nightly baths to kill time between the witching hour and his bedtime!
GOLD / grapefruit / 4007 posts
Around 5 weeks!!! J looooves his bath. Of he hated it we probably wouldn't do it nightly
pomegranate / 3768 posts
LO just turned 3 months today. Wondering if I should start making baths her bedtime routine too! She doesn't love it or hate it. Think she just tolerates it so I try to make it quick!
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
not until recently! LO used to get all excited in the tub so I saved it for morning. Now she literally lays back and lounges (in her inflatable tub) so I do it after dinner, before nursing and bed. she's 6 months next week.
blogger / nectarine / 2010 posts
I started the moms on call routine at 2w and it included a nightly bath. He's had a bath every night since!
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