My newborn hates baths and does not sleep after it. I’m going crazy.

We stopped doing bath at nighttime. We do it now before nap most days or just in the morning. Bedtime is too crazy as it is. And maybe I’m a bad mom but at 1 month old, I was only bathing my baby 2 times a week 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Haley i did once or twice a week with my other two when they were infants too. They didn’t need it so often. But my newborn seems to be extra cheesy and cannot go more than 2 days without a bath lol I did a midday bath once and I think that’s the way to go. How do you establish a bedtime routine with yours?

I was always told that if they are really bad at having a bath that it's too cold, I asked my midwife about it and i warmed it up and it worked. Don't know if that will help at all but it definitely changed for my son x

So here’s a tip I had to learn

So with my oldest, she didn’t like the about that purse either so we would put the laptop on the toilet and play her favorite show while we gave her a bath with my son. We would wrap him in a transferring blanket like for the baby like one of those blankets that they are very thin cross like blanket, wrap her in there and lay the baby inside the bath on their bathtub the baby bathtub and the baby back inside the regular bath and we would just run the water over the baby so that the baby wasn’t coldand using eucalyptus oil lavender keeping the lights dim having quiet time prior to the bath you’ll find your groove and you’ll find out what works for you. I hope these tips help.

My baby when she was a newborn loved “swaddle baths” she’d sit in her tub with a receiving blanket behind her and one on top and I’d poor warm water on her to keep her warm while she bathed and she was so relaxed and loved it.

How frequently you're bathing her? I remember being told by my doctors that you're not supposed to bathe them a lot when they're newborns.

My LO didn’t like the bath much either until I used the shower head and put the water over her. Now she LOVES baths and gets all excited and giggly. Try giving baths at a different time of the day, maybe when it’s just you two. They also don’t need to be bathed too often so don’t over stress yourself trying to do it every other day.

We had the same issue, even 2 years later he still gets extra energetic after baths. We usually do after naptime or first thing in the morning and it’s helped him regulate for the day

My son was the same so I started bath time earlier (not in the bed time routine) at like midday.

My baby hated baths, too. We warmed them up (like others were saying), and we used a muslin blanket to wrap him in to keep him warm. It took a couple of times, but now he loves baths. I hope this helps 🙏