How often do you bath and/or change your newborn's clothes?
I'm just wondering if I'm weird after some comments made by a group of women a few days ago. I change DD3's clothes each morning - she has particular all in one's that are her pj's, and then in the morning I take her out of her sleeping bag and pj's and dress her for the day in fresh clothes. She is generally bathed/showered daily but we will occasionally skip a day, but the clothes still get changed. I know how I feel if I wear the same clothes so I figure while babies don't get dirty as such, they still have little chucks, dribbles etc. Most of these women were saying they bath their bubs every second or third day, and that they stay in the same clothes between baths unless they have a pooplosion.
Am I normal or are they? I'm happy to be the weird one - just curious
I was bathing every 2nd day but the HCN said that it was ok to bathe every day cos it would help with settling them in the evening. So no, you're not weird at all! Do whatever works for you
Your not weird at all.
Even as tiny babies the girls would be changed first thing in the morning and before bed.
They also never wore the same 'bed' suit 2 nights in a row as they were both kind of spewy.
As it is now the girls have PJ's they wear a couple of nights in a row then they go in the wash, they get dressed in 'proper' clothes every morning unless we have a PJ day... BUT if we have a PJ day they don't wear the same PJ's to bed.
Baths / Showers were every 2nd day as it irritated the girls skin, now it's daily or every second day.
i bath her every 2nd to 3rd day, but would rather do it more often cause she does love her bath but depends how she is if we do it. im also lazy...i wear same clothes more than once, and unless she has thrown up etc will keep her in the same clothes more than a day...i do sometimes feel guilty and change her sooner.
Not weird, I also put fresh clothes on DS3 every morning. I have been giving him a bath every night too up until about a week ago as he had a bit of a cold and I didn't want to get him cold then warm then cold again! On the days I don't give him a proper bath I give him a top and tail wash - he loves having his face washed!
Not weird. We did bath every night before bed and changed bub out of her pjs and into clothes for the day every morning. It helped our DD distinguish when it was bedtime doing a nighttime bath and it calmed her too.
Changed DD clothes every day. We had designated jumpsuits that served as PJ's so I changed her from those every morning into fresh clothes. We started out bathing every day, but then her skin dried right out, so we pulled it back to every second. That went on until she was 7 weeks old and her hip brace went on and we couldn't give her a proper bath, but we still gave her a sponge down every second day.
I always bathed DD daily - it settled her at night and was part of the bed time routine. Clothes wise - she also had a set of onesies that were her "pj's" and I changed her each and every morning into proper clothes. The only time she ever wore onesies in the day was when she was ill.
I do recall having people tell me I was weird at the time and thought, as others have said, I don't like being in the same clothes all day and night so why should she?
With Buster he had/has a bath with Moo which is every second day. If he has had a big spew then he'll get an extra bath right there and then. He is a very chucky baby so his clothes get changed very frequently anyway, it's not uncommon to go through half a dozen changes in a day. Having said that, if by some miracle the suit he slept in is still clean, I will leave it on him. Any chance to save on washing
Yeah, you're weird
I don't think it matters, really, I just couldn't see the point in doing it more often than absolutely necessary. DD was a spewer, so we did have to change her a fair bit. DS though, he'd got 2-3 days easily between clothing changes.
I generally only change if needed and baths are every 2nd 3rd occasionally 4th day lol guilty of putting DS all in one on the heater to dry after he chucked on it when I only put it on him last night. He doesn't have a lot of cloths so have to make the most of what I've got.
How often do you bath and/or change your newborn's clothes?
I always dressed both my kids in morning and changed into pj's before bed.. Bath was usually everyday, but I was never pedantic about that, but I was with dressing them..
As required... as a newborn she probably bathed every 3-5 days and changed clothes only when they needed it or at that time. Now she is on solids it is a little more frequent but still not every day.
My babies have generally had a shower with me every second day. They might get an extra one though if they poop or vomit a lot. If they do a bit of a large vomit at a time inconvenient to shower them, then I'll just do a body wash.
Each morning they get changed into "day" clothes, and then into fresh pj's in the evening. It's not uncommon for them to be changed into fresh clothes a number of times each day though if they vomit. I'm not a fan of bibs so very rarely use them (only if they are in a particular outfit for going out that needs to stay clean) and I figure it's not much harder to just change them into a clean top than to change a bib.
Our boys have a bath twice a week unless they get sweaty then its daily. Clean clothes every day, pjs changed once a week. They get out of their pjs when they wake and back into them just before bed. Sometimes dh doesn't change ds2's clothes in the morning, but the kinder teacher will pull him up on it.
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How often do you bath and/or change your newborn's clothes?
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