How long should you wait after tea to bathe a baby?

[makamsi]

Hi. I was wondering how long you leave it after baby's tea till their bath? I have a nice evening routine established for my 8 month old of tea, bath (one hour later), bottle, bed but my DH says I'm not leaving long enough for our DS to digest his tea before we bath him. What do you do?

I sometimes eat my tea IN the bath... so I am no help there.
Some baby experts say to feed before the bath (i think baby whisperer).
As long as u stay with your ds the whole time - I have also bf our dd in the bath.
Not much help sorry!

ds has always gone straight from highchair to bath since starting solids because he is covered in food.

He could go swimming an hour after food, so what does he do in the bath that need longer?

Straight into the bath after dinner here too.

yup, whisked up into the bath straight away here too - never had a problem.

i useualy use the swimming idea no going into water for atleast a hour after you have eaten so yeah i would say about a hour as well

DD's older now - just turned 2 - but fpr past few months she has gone in the bath straight after dinner (around 6:45pm). Saves on wet wipes after food!

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not sure why the reason was twiglet it just seemed to work that way with us and i try and not change something that works in my case anyway

That's what I thought too Twiglett.

Tea at 5, bath at 6, so there's normally about 45 mins between him finishing eating and having his bath. I would however have no problems with going straight from tea to bath. I really don't see what problems could arise at all, as they aren't exercising in the bath, not like real swimming (unless you've got a very highly-developed 8 month old! )

I can understand the not swimming but what is sitting in 3 inches of water going to do to your digestion? Nothing I expect.

Ours goes straight from dinner to bath. Now, dinner in the bath, that's an idea. It would save a lot of cleaning up.

We chuck him in the bath after dinner....

An hr after tea

MY ds goes literally straight into the bath - out of highchair and into the bath. There is no way at all that sitting in nice warm water will stop him digesting! How could it??? The swimming thing is because hard exercise directly after a meal could possibly cause cramp - I don't call a bath hard exercise

Straight into bath! No nonsense!

Tea, then bath ... always done it that way from day 1.
DD (10 weeks) has a feed at 5.30 and then straight in the bath with her brother ...

I used to prefer bathing dd in the mornings, I had always run out of energy by teatime...

We bung him in whenever makamsi! Before dinner, after dinner, 1 minute after, 1 hour after
Can't imagine a bath would shut his digestive system down - don't worry, bath him when you want

i think they say about an hour? Or so i have read.

if he is very active on the bath then that is when the infamous cramp can occur, but in a bath highly un likely I should have thought, we do it whenever usually half an hour after at least

Thanks for all your reassurances. You know how sometimes husbands can be so sure that they know exactly what is best for baby.........!!!