Bathing

How often are you bathing your baby? Admittedly, we have been stuck in the rut of doing it once a week still like when he was a newborn but he does have dry skin so we also wanted to avoid drying him out further (the gp said not to use bath products due to this atm). We don't exactly go anywhere so it's not like he's dirty but just thinking that we need to increase this to a few times a week at least at part of a good bedtime routine/to relax him to help with sleep.

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Does he not sleep well? Do you need to change your routine? If it's working for you (and it's helping his skin) stick with it no matter what anyone else does.

@Cece no he doesn't unfortunately. No longer than 2.5/3hr stretches at most, both before and in the midst of the regression/teething. Consider it a good night if we aren't woken hourly, 😴

We bathe ours every 2-3 days. I do notice he sleeps longer in the night after a bath but I won't bathe him everyday as we know it's not necessary and not good for drying out his skin. Literally about to bathe him as we speak! X

Fair enough, it might be worth a try then to add another mid week bath as a test to see if it helps with sleeping but doesn't disturb his skin and then increase if you find it's helping.

We do it nightly for routine but just pop some breast milk in the bath to help skin. Only use bath products once a week

Breast milk in the bath water is magical for not stripping baby skin of moisture

We bath every other night and sometimes every night just as an activity to do! He loves the bath x

We were doing every other day but wanting to introduce it to our nighttime routine so started every night but I do worry it's too much for his skin. That being said he vomits loads and is stinky by the end of the day so at the same time a bath sometimes is necessary

We bathe twice a week. I do a day in middle of week and a weekend day. Usually Wednesdays and Sundays so we can plan for it. I hear you don’t want to bathe too often as it will make baby’s skin dry.

We do it nightly as part of the routine. She loves it. Everyone’s right in saying that daily isn’t really necessary but it’s a lovely activity and it helps her sleep better. We use a tiny amount of Babe products. Very gentle to baby’s skin.

https://laboratoriosbabe.com/en/tipo_producto/children-shower-gels/

Same as @Alexis we also bathe 2x a week - sometimes 3x depending on how she is.. I wipe her daily though like under her chin, armpits and any creases x

We tend to do every second night. But on the days we have swimming we come home and have a bath before a day nap. X

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