How often do you bathe a newborn?

How often does a newborn get bathed? Ive read a few times a week but in the summer can they get bathed daily?

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I bathe DS 3x a week so his skin doesn't dry out. From what I've been told so long as you keep their hands and diaper area clean, they don't need baths more often until they're crawling.

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When DS was a newborn I only gave him a bath maybe twice a week, it was winter plus he hated the bath and would scream, so I would end up giving him a sponge bath between regular baths.

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We do about 2x a week. You could bathe him every day during the summer, but it's not recommended to use soap on them daily because it will dry out their sensitive skin. So the days in between, you could just do a rinse with the water in the bath.

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Once DD was about 6-8 weeks, we bathed her most nights. I feel like it helped her sleep better and calmed her at night. In the very beginning, maybe 3x per week.

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Once his umbilical stump fell off, 2-3x/wk. now that it's summer and DS sweats like crazy- as needed.

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I was told bathe only 1-2 times per week, so that's what I've been doing.

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My DD 1-2 xs/wk, DS I do almost every night. He spits up a lot and it helps him sleep better.

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every other night in the beginning, but then as we tried to get a schedule going, we began doing it every night (we didn't always use soap every night).

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As a newborn DD got a bath 2-3 times a week. Even now I only give her a bath every other night, unless she needs it, like aday today when she was sweaty and had sunblock on. And I only wash her hair like twice a week because it gets very dry if I do it more.

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Everyday once her cord came off unless she had a fever.

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I've always bathed DD every night. Sometimes I skip, because I'm lazy, we have company, etc.

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I do about twice a week....finally gave her a bath yesterday....it had been 6 days!! Bad Mommy!!!!! LOL....my older DD gets a bath every other day. The baby will also, but she is only 3 months old....how dirty can she get!

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once she was able to get bath everyday ... it took a while for the umblical cord to fall off and completely heal ... we bath her every night cause we swore it helped her sleep thru the night and we refused to do anything different to mess that up

eventually we switched to every other day and now its minamlly every other day if not everyday.

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Every night - was part of their bedtime routine from 6 weeks on.

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I gave DS sponge baths until umbilical cord fell off then I bathed him every other day.

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Posted by july4mrsO

I bathe DS 3x a week so his skin doesn't dry out. From what I've been told so long as you keep their hands and diaper area clean, they don't need baths more often until they're crawling.

We did this.
She was a summer baby but honestly-they don't sweat like we do.
And every diaper changed she was cleaned in the parts that really count!

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Sponge baths until umbilical cord fell off and bathe daily ever since... His skin is perfectly fine.
Do what you feel comfortable with.

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we started out with sponge baths, then after 3 weeks or so, 1x/week with soap, then after another few weeks 2x/week with shampoo and soap

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Every other day.

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every other day but then started doing every couple of days bc she got really dry patches of skin on her arms and legs.

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I bathe my daughter every night however my first two only got baths once or twice a week because their skin was so dry. This time I lather her in aquaphor every night and she has great skit despite being bathed daily.