Although for a while they have been recommending that let's bathe the baby every day, for hygiene and for him to take habits (which you will already tell me what it is for a baby to take the habit of bathing if until he is several years old he will not do it alone, and also he will not bathe, but will shower ), the reality is that the latest recommendations speak of bathing the baby about three times a week, being a flexible figure, obviously, for the "kinky and vomiting accidents" that may require a water.
Now, about how long the bathroom should last, it seems that there has not been much talk and that is why it should be that a few days ago, when I was asked this question: " How long should the baby's bath last?"I was confused. Then I answered while inside I asked myself when we have lost the human being the ability to reason.
What an eye, I don't say it only for that mother and I don't say it just for the question. I say this for many other things that happen around babies and in that, many parents do not know how to act because nobody has explained anything to us about that. Perhaps that is the problem, that now there is so much talk about everything that there seems to be an answer for everything. And there really isn't.
A few years ago, if you went to the pediatrician, or whoever it was, and asked how long the baby's bath should last many responded ten minutes. Others said fifteen, perhaps more left or brave, and others said nothing. People believed them because of course, if the pediatrician tells you that the bathroom should last ten minutes it will be a sign that, starting at eleven, the child is at risk of ... well, I do not know, to then fall out of his skin, to catch a pneumonia or, if a certain time passes, in contact with water, become a kind of Gremlin.
Well, don't listen to me, jokes apart, There are no studies that talk about how much time is right to have the baby soak. And as there is no such documentation, the answer is clear, the time needed to bathe and the time that the baby likes or wants to be, as long as it does not harm his skin or cool him.
Yes, I know it seems increasingly difficult, but it is quite logical. If the child has been in the water for a quarter of an hour and is having a pipe, then you take it out for a moment, you ask Dad to add some hot water, you put it back in (sure it won't burn) and you keep playing with him. If you did the same thing a few days ago and you realized that the skin got very dryWell, you take it out, you ask Dad to empty and dry the bathtub and keep playing with him while you put the cream on and dress him.
If instead the baby takes seven minutes and is tired of being in the water, do not look at the clock seeing that there are still three minutes left. You take it out and that's it. And if that day you are in a hurry because there is football, you bathe it, Dad, that in three minutes you have finished, and you take it out with the bathrobe like a plane flying towards the sofa, that "today I see you here, the game begins".
Come on there is no fixed rule in reference to bath time. The only thing to watch, as I say, is your skin, that the more we wet it the more it will dry out (considering that there are babies who get a good soak every day and have great skin and others who just see the water they already scale) and that the more time they spend in the water, the colder it will be.
Well, and something else you have to watch, to the kid. Every time you are in the water we have to be by your side yes or yes. If we have to go, we take it out of the water and take it with us, mandatory. Essential. Non-negotiable.
