how old was your neworn when he/she had their first bath at home??

[LadyTophamHatt]

am i a terrible mother to have not bathed ds4 yet??

he's a week old today....

about 2 days I think, but I was keen to get her into a routine.

No, you are not terrible . How filthy can a tiny baby get, really ? Top and tailing should be more than adequate atm

didnt have bath is hosp just sponge down with cotton wool and water, so next day but not that regularly then, it was so much hassle when there tiny and not even dirty!

think your actually following currrent best practice with regard to vernix on skin, but dont know much bout it as dd was overdue and didnt have any

Nah, DD didn't have bath for ages - got wiped down, but that was about it. In fact I think the first time she was bathed was because she did one of those explosive uberpoos that spread from head to toe and it was just easier to dunk her

not at all I reckon dd1 was bathed at home when she was about 5 or 6 days old and dd2 definitely longer than a week lol

I never got into a routine for bathing him! Think he was lucky to get once a week! (still is !)

Fortunately he was/is (now 6) a very clean child.

I think you just bath them for something to do more than anything else

lol @ 'explosive uberpoo'

I didn't bathe mine much in the first few weeks either, unless absolutely necessary - see serenity's description

DS didn't have a bath until he was 6 days old. it was on the last day i was in hospital with him. he was on the neonatal ward for most of our stay and i'm pretty sure he didn't even have a top & tail there.

IIRC ds2's first bath at home - first bath at all since being born in a bath - was with me in an attempt to get him to feed well. He was about a week old, and only had the bath because of the feeding, not because he needed it. He was only being bathed once every week or two until about 11w, when we began a proper bedtime routine, with ds2 going into the bath with ds1 and dd every evening.

I didnt bathe dd3 for ages

washed her bot and face but no proper bath until she was about 6 weeks

one month

she was born in water though so came out lovely and sparkly

"I think you just bath them for something to do more than anything else"

LOL, believe me I have more than enough to right now.....

DD1 a few days old, DD2 one month

DD1 a few days old, DD2 one month

DS1 was bathed by the mw an hour or so after he was born - it was a quiet day and she had nothing else to do. I gave him his first bath at home when he was about 4 days old but I was so terrified I'd scald him I went the other way and made it too cold. The novelty wore off v. quick. The other three were prob about 5-6 days and I mostly topped and tailed ds4 beacause he was super floppy and slippery.

After about a month, but only to introduce a bedtime routine and relax DD when she got the evening jitters - she always went out like a light after her bath. Didn't use soap or any products until well over 6 months, though, just a drop of calendula oil in the water on "uberpoo" occasions.

ds was a week old when he had his first bath. he only has a bath once a week. one week i will use a bar of baby soap and the next i use plain water. everyone constantly tells me ds doesn't smell like a baby but i had exzcema as a child and i don't want him to go through that.

after maybe a motnh or so

seemed too difficult!

topping and tailing is dull but plenty of washing for a newborn imho

DS1 was 10 days. We had to ask the midwife to show us how to bath him when she was signing us off . New parents and all that

DD can't remember.

DS2 was... errm... about 3 weeks. Had my mother on the phone constantly 'you bathed that baby yet?' 'no not yet. havent had a minute. Its not like he is outside rolling in the dirt!'

5 days

DS1 was six days old.

DS2 was more like a month or five weeks old.

They don't get dirty. And it's better for their skin. In my very statistical study of two, DS2's skin is the peachiest. DS1 gets very, very mild eczema and has "rougher" skin than DS2, whose is smooth as...er...a baby's bottom!

If you must bath him, don't use soap or wash of any kind.

Now he has one every night, still in plain water. He's never had soap on his skin.

He was pointing into the nappy box, then at the bathroom door and saying "BA!" last night So he's not been put off baths with not having one within the first week or so!

My dd was born at home, and the midwife came to check on her when she was two days old. She gave her a bath in a tub like bath. Dd had a blissful look on her face when she was fully emersed up to the chin.