How often do you give newborn a bath

Be honest - how often did you / do you bathe (as in a proper bath) your newborn? My baby is nearly 4 weeks old and has had 2 actual baths. The rest of the time she has a cotton pad wash of the areas that need it daily - face, hands - sometimes pits and bottom half.

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When my daughter was a newborn I used to give a bath twice a week. Now she’s 7 months we do it every other day or everyday, depending on how messy food time gets! When I don’t bathe I use mustela no rinse cleansing water to clean her and then still moisturise her X

I started doing every day at 6 months, before then once sometimes twice a week. I had a December baby so I didn’t want him to get sick.

Every other day we had a spring baby

I do it whenever she has a bad blowout and maybe once a week.

Similar to above. Once or twice a week for my 5wk old so far. She's had 4 baths so far, but her cord didn't come off for nearly 3 weeks!

Every day after he stopped being miserable and hard work 😂 so around 4/5 months. Before then, twice a week maybe

Even older babies generally shouldn’t be bathed more than three times a week. I bathe my 10 month old every 3 days and I bathed her about once a week before she started eating solids at 6 months

Proper bath Once in a week, every day i just clean him with cotton pads

Every other day

We just did our first bath last night. Our little one is 2 weeks old.

We started at 4 weeks old and them probably 1x every 10-14days. Mostly just with Water. She has Perfect Skin and does not Need any lotion It is good to wait for the First wash for the Skin flora, but there is no rule

We didn’t bathe our newborns for about 2/3 weeks when they first arrived as all the vernix is packed full of antibodies for them. We give our 3 month old a bath 1-2 a week now

Once a week max. Pediatrician warned against bathing too often

She’s bathed every night before bed and just turned 3months. She had her first bath the day we got back from the hospital 😂. It’s been like this since birth with the odd days missed when we’re late home or something.