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How often does your LO get a bath? & what time of day?
Newborn I knew not every day ....but now Caitlin is getting a bath or shower (she loves it lol) every single day after her morning bottle but before lunch.
For anyone who does not bath baby every day what do you do on those days strip wash? Maybe everyone does do the same (Caitlin is just over 10 months old) but I get the feeling thats maybe not the case?!!
Kaya only gets a bath once or twice a week when she needs it. We still use cotton wool and water for her bum and she get's her face washed every night before bed.
Colton still doesn't get a bath everyday.
I've been wanting to get him into a night time routine of bath bottle book bed, for awhile now. But OH doesn't see why we need a routine and even though I tell him he doesn't do it. He says Colton "isn't dirty" so he can skip his bath. Not much I can do aside from giving into no nighttime routine and bathing him during the day.
(I go to Uni between 6-9pm, but it takes me a hour to get there, so I'm gone from 5-10pm almost every weekday)
However, if I were home every night thats how it would be. I'm actually on Fall Break this week.. so going to do it everynight. I dont know why OH wont, on the days he does give Colton a bath he is usually conked after a the bath and bottle!
summer has a bath everynight as its part of her bedtime routine, on the odd occasion she doesnt get a bath a strip her off and massage bedtime lotion into her, makes her smell nice lol
Niamh gets bathed everynight without fail not because she is overly stinky just because its how she knows its bedtime and she enjoys it so i don't see what is wrong with it.
When Bethanie was newborn, she would only have a bath once or twice a week.. this is because she had eczema and we found this the best thing to do for her skin.
Her eczema has cleared up now, but she gets little dry patches every so often so I bath her every other night now. On the days she doesn't have a bath, I wash her face and brush her teeth (we do twice a day though).. but I don't bother giving her a strip wash because she gets wiped up downbelow with baby wipes and I never notice a bad smell.
If she gets messy (at the park or whatever) then she will get an extra bath and i've started to think of giving her one every night soon as shes a messy little toddler now, so we will see how that goes.
Oh yea, usually late afternoon/early evenings here (6pm), but it really depends on whats going on in the day!
Aaron gets a bath two or three times a week. He loves it, but he has a lot of itchy dry skin so I don't bath him every day. In between he just gets wiped down wherever he needs it. He only has one dirty nappy every few days though, so once he starts having more solids he might have to be bathed more often!
Amelia has started being bathed/showered every night or every other night. She loves coming into the shower with me while DH washes her.....she used to scream in her baby bath but this week has started to enjoy it, even at this age she manages to kick the water everywhere! It really tires her out and by the time she is dressed and we come back downstairs she is already falling asleep in my arms.
normally maddi gets a bath every night and wash every morning. on the odd evening she doesn't get a bath yep we wash with top-to-toe wash in the the top and tail bowl, might be different maddi is quite a few months younger
