To boil and cool my baby's bath water?

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Posting on AIBU for traffic as bathtime is fast approaching, sorry if it's not appropriate for this board!!

I was just FaceTiming my mum when I said in passing "ugh it's bath night tonight, I'd better start getting the kettle going soon" and she looked at me like I was stark raving mad and told me to just use tap water like any sane person would. I had a quick google and can only see stuff coming up advising cooled boiled water for wiping newborns' faces. My baby is 5 months old for reference. I'm struggling to actually remember where I even got the idea that it had to be boiled and cooled from.

So go on then, should I be boiling it or am I lost in the realm of 'PFB' and FTM anxiety?! 😁

How long had you planned to do this?
At what age would you have decided that it was now time for a tap water bath?

No way? are you having a laugh!

Safe yourself some work and use tap water.

That's almost a crazy as the daughter of a man I used to know boiling bottled water in the kettle to make tea.

Aww that's so sweet, but please feel free to stop. By the time he is a toddler he will have been chewing shoes, licking dog toys and slurping from puddles.

Your baby can also drink the water straight from a tap 🤯

Yep, bath time was definitely easier tonight!!

To address a few points;

1. Unfortunately I am real

1. To those commenting about the cost of doing this every night - with the amount of faff it is to boil the kettle and wait for it all to cool, I absolutely have not been bathing my baby every night 🤣 it always surprised me when people said they bathe their babies every night for this reason, I did suspect that not everyone boiled the water but I didn't realise that literally no one else did 🤣

1. Oh no, @Minesril, I think I may have that same thermometer, I'll try and add a photo (taken after his first assignment in unboiled water). Is this my second PFB offence?!?

In all seriousness though, I do feel very daft now but thank you all for being nice about it, some of the replies have really made me chuckle! I was not expecting this many people to reply, and I whilst I did think (and was rather hoping tbh) that people would tell me not to bother with the boiling and cooling, I didn't realise it was that unusual 🤣 I can get a bit anxious sometimes, so I'm glad that this was a resounding answer and I can stop exhausting my poor kettle 🤣

Thanks again everyone! X

Run a shallow bath and lay baby down in it so water isn’t up as far as mouth, then let the fun begin, splashing kicking etc! Baths are so fun that way…in a big bath not a boring baby one! At five months they will grow out of doing this soon so give it a go! We once used a bath that needed topped up with kettles to be warm..a lot of work!! But no need for baby!

At 5 months then there’s absolutely no need to do this.

But I did used to do this when I changed my DDs nappy as the midwife told me to use boiled and cooled water with cotton wool.

As a teenage parent with no experience I literally just did everything by the book but this soon stopped after I realised how much they need their nappy changing and I had to boil and cool the water every time so it was warm enough to use.

I don’t think you’re mad to have done it but I think you’re mad for keeping it up for 5 months 😁😁

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Sorry love but you're raving. You're going to be so embarrassed five years from now.

But good luck to you we've all been there. I used to insist Dd be played an hour of baby Mozart before bedtime - even when she was in the care of my parents. To my mothers credit she just nodded, said "of course Bumps" and went along with it.

I'm wondering now what crazies my DD will make me fall in with when it comes to PFG-DC

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😂I know a mum very well who took the 'one more layer than you ' advice too far.

It was roasting hot, my poor baby was cooking in the pram with vest and top on while I'm sweltering in just a t-shirt. Yip baby had one more layer than me - even in a heatwave!

Missing the point of the thread entirely but your tiles are gorgeous OP. Love the colour

Ah, I suspect you've got giving them cooled boiled water to drink confused with bathing them in it. Hope your bubba enjoyed her bath 💐

You’re the first person I’ve ever heard of to do this bless you. You don’t need to; even a newborn.

If it's any comfort, my friend thought that on top of bathing her baby every morning, she also had to bath him every time he had a dirty nappy. That was often more than once a day so that poor baby was being bathed and changed multiple times every day. I think the baby was a similar age as yours when friends mum happened to drop by on babies 2nd bath of the day and found out.😁

Yeah, OP, you've completely lost the plot. You're doing that kid no favours by cocooning him like this.

More bonkers than Dizzee Rascal ☺️

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PFB it's hysterical! You know they even use tap water in hospital neonatal units for baths. 😂

Not to be vulgar, but babies are designed to come out of a fanny, which aren’t exactly sterile 😂

I used tap water, bathed every night. X

lol, I used tap water from new born with both my 2 and by the time dc2 came along I'd even given up with the baby bath and washed him in the kitchen sink instead! got a lovely photo of him sat up in the kitchen sink at about 8 months old. Both dc still very well and healthy years later.

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thanks OP, for making me laugh in the first place and taking everyone pointing out you’re nuts so good-naturedly. We’ve all been there… well maybe not boiling bath water but with our own pfb ‘quirks’.
(I spent ages trying to work out if a calpol syringe was safe to go into a steam steriliser. And I do mean ages…).

To those who thinks it's hilarious, I was told to only use cooled , boiled water to wash a baby's face for up to three months.

Not for bathing though.