Scummy mummy? Am I the only one who doesn't bath her dc every night?

[makedoandmend]

DD is 8mo - everyone else I know seems to do the bed, bath routine which I never really started as dd is great at going off to sleep.

She doesn't crawl yet (doesn't even sit up without support) so isn't rolling around in mud everyday.

I do bath her obviously - but not every night. Judging by the faces of my NCT lot I seem to be the only one...

So am I?

[poshsinglemum]

After reading this thread I think I am going to seriously relax my bathtime obsession. Not healthy at all!

[Sarraburd]

Probably only two times a week depending how dirty they are/tired I am (just had DC3, all under 5, and the whole bedtime thing getting to be rather a marathon nightmare now as generally the baby tends to want a feed right in the middle of the whole thing!)

And DC3 has only had about six baths in his life (he's just four months) - he can't go in the bath with the other two yet and doing two lots of baths is just too complicated.

SIL likewise a bit that I don't do every night, but it's only the last fifty or so (??) years that people have thought it the norm and anyway I can't imagine it's that good for the skin to have a bath every night that young (I had bath every night as child and had terribly dry cracking skin...).

[nappyaddict]

Sarraburd How often do you usually bath DC3? I agree that all this bathing is necessary until they start smelling during puberty.

[Sarraburd]

DC3 full bath every couple of weeks with flannel baths in between. I do feel a bit too slummymummy about that though and would love to do it more just to spend some time with him, am simply too knackered by that time in the evening to do it more often.

[Sarraburd]

(he's a superfeeder and still waking three times a night)

[nappyaddict]

I don't think it is slummy at all. He doesn't get any cleaner in the big bath than he does with a flannel bath. How often do you all over flannel him? I used to do mine all over once a week and just face, hands and nappy area every day.