Bathing your baby can be an ordeal if you are not aware and prepared enough. It is quite obvious that bathing a baby is different from bathing for yourself. Right from the temperature of the bathing water to wiping off the baby has to be done in a particular way. Your baby needs extra care and therefore you need to follow some rules and regulations when you bath your baby.
When you make up your mind to give bath to your baby, the best way to avoid any hassle is keep everything ready. All the bath accessories like baby soap, baby shampoo, washcloth, bucket or bathtub, cotton balls and a clean diaper. Remember that while making baby bath, you cannot take off your sight from your baby even for a minute and therefore, you cannot keep baby in the tub, stand up and collect the wanted bathing material.
The temperature of the bathing water carries extreme importance for your baby. Cold water may bring common cold for your baby and opposite to that, hot water may burn your baby’s tender skin. Before pouring water or before putting your baby into the bathtub, check out the water for its temperature. It should be lukewarm; neither cold nor hot. The water equal to body temperature will be the best. This also depends on the environment as you can use slightly warm water in winter and cold in summer.
Newborn babies need not bath daily. However, sponging is must and for that, many sponges are available in the market. Take the sponge, dip into the water, and rub very gently on baby. Take an extreme care that water should not go into baby’s mouth, nose, eyes and ears. It is always better to give bath to a baby with baby sleeping on either left or right side so that you can avoid water going into any of the orifices on the face.
When you baby is capable to sit, baby bathtub is the best choice. Choose the bathtub that is not so large or not so small. You can put some bathing toys that float on the bathing water in the bathing tub so that your baby is kept busy and you can soap it and wash baby’s body easily.
Selection of the baby’s soap and shampoo does matter. You should go for the standard baby bathing accessories. Shampoos are preferred those are ‘tearless’ i.e. the material used in soap and shampoo should not produce the tears or irritation when it goes into the eyes of baby accidentally. Some of the experienced mother can get a good position of a baby to give bath comfortably such as she can sit down with her legs extended having no gaps in between and the baby is then kept on its stomach with head turned aside. The back portion of the baby is best washed in this position but this requires extra care and attention.
You should wash baby’s face with extreme care and the best idea for this is to take soap in your hand and gently rub in your both hands. Keep the soap down and then apply your hands to baby’s face rather than applying soap itself. Do this procedure gently and then wash your baby’s face with water. There is no need to keep that soap for a longer time on your baby’s face. Baby’s face is full of milk and other foods all the time, it has saliva and there are chances to get an infection through this. Hence, it is better to wash your baby’s face frequently and not necessarily with soap each time.
When you complete a bath for your baby, you gently pick up your baby and put on the bed on which you have already spread the towel. You can also spread towel on the cleaned tiles on the floor of your room. Take another towel (preferably made up of 100% cotton) and then start gently wiping off the water. Here one has to remember that you need not to wipe the baby’s body with towel vigorously as it can harm your baby’s tender skin. The wiping is to be done very gently and the preferred method is putting on and off the towel on the baby’s skin rather than rubbing it once.
After completion of the baby’s bath, powder the baby with baby-powder and dress your baby with neat and clean clothes. Do not use any harmful chemically made baby accessories. Try to go for herbal and proven baby makeup kits.
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