Is there such of a thing as giving a bathing a baby to much
i have been giving my daughter a bath the every night since she was about 2 months old. Is there such of a thing of giving a bath too much? Ive head it dries out the skin but after she gets a bath we put lotion on her every night. How often do i bath her?
If her skin seems fine to you, not dried out, then there is no harm in it. Everyone is different. I give my son a bath every night, but he's 20 months old. At 2 months, I'd say I was probably doing it 3-4 times a week, only because he wasn't going any where, so he wasn't really getting dirty. But I always wiped him down with a washcloth at night...
So- again, everyone is different. Everyday might work for you- but I've heard of some people even choosing at that age to do once a week....
When my son was about 2/3 months we started to bath him every night. It was part of his bedtime routine. He would get a bath, I would massage lotion on him, feed him and read/sing to him then put him to bed half asleep. We have been doing that bedtime routine for 5 years now and my son knows when the bath is running it is time to wind down for the night.
I think as long as your child is not getting dried out skin and is not showing any signs of irration that you can bathe as much or as little as you want. It is a personal decision. Babies don't "need" a bath everyday but like with my son we used it as a tool in the bedtime routine. It help relax and soothe him when he was being fussy.
I bathed my son every day since he was a newborn. Well sometimes we don't get a bath that day, but not often. I used to just put lotion on him every time I would change his clothes, like in the morning when I change him from his jammies to his clothes and then after the bath. His skin never got too dry.











- BabyGirl5808
on Nov. 19, 2008 at 1:24 PM