Bath routines

How many times do you bath a baby week? Mine is 10 months and we bath her every other night, and clean her everyday. I read you shouldn’t bath a baby every day because it can dry out their skin? Just wanted confirmation I’m not doing anything wrong 🤣x

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We bath our baby 3x a week. It definitely dries out his skin and worsened eczema patches when we did it more often. Health visitor and GP both confirmed that it doesn't need to be every day.

I only bath my son every 2-3 days and have a wash daily of face, hands feet and bits. I did the same with my first born and he never had any dry skin or eczema. I think bathing daily dries the skin out unless you just use water. You are not doing anything wrong. Some babies like a bath time routine before bed but it’s not needed and definitely don’t need a daily bath for hygiene reasons.

I was doing every other night but recently I have been doing every night. Purely because it’s been hot so baby has been hot, covered in suncream and also gets so mucky at nursery. I figured if I was showering every day I should probably do the same for him. But as long as she’s still getting a clean she’ll be fine!

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