CLICKY POLL How often do you bathe your 2-3 month olds?

[Koala]

Trying to figure out if I am going too long between baths.  They don't smell.  I wipe their faces and necks (and often hands, too) with face wipes.  

[Koala]

And when do you start ramping up the frequency?

[lindsaymg]

Every other day, but DD had a lot of hair that looked greasy if we didn't bathe her. A bald baby may have changed how often I bathed her.

[rbp]

Our pedi recommended every day on account of his eczema. (Moist skin absorbs cream better.)

[Koala]

We try for every 3rd day. It is hard to coordinate bath time for 2 babies.

[preppy]

Probably about every third day. Sometimes more if there is a poopsplosion.

[niq]

I think 3 months is when we started to shift from once a week to twice a week.

We stayed at 2x a week for a while, and then at some point (maybe 12 months? maybe later?) we switched to every-other-day-ish. Emphasis on the ish.

[Koala]

Dec 9, 2015 16:23:26 GMT -5 preppy said:

Probably about every third day. Sometimes more if there is a poopsplosion.

Yes, I have had to give DD 2 baths in the same day due to that.  

[pooh8402]

I voted for every day. Reasoning is twofold. First, E was very cranky and baths calmed him down at the end of the day. Second, because of that, we just made it part of his nightly bedtime routine. Also, it's one thing that he and DH do that is just theirs, so I don't want to take it away. E hasn't had dry skin or anything.

[AlpineSlide]

We did twice a week. Like you I wiped face, neck and hands at least once a day, usually right before bed.

Bumped up baths to every other day at 6 or 7 months when he was eating solids consistently.

Then upped it to every night starting at like 18 months because it was summer then and he was running around getting pretty dirty, swimming, sweating, etc. We still do bath every night now at 2 years but I don't always wash his hair.

[statgirl]

When necessary...or when my older son asked for the baby to join him in the bath. My first was a rarely bathed baby (he didn't spit up, rarely had poop incidents because he didn't poop, and his skin would be happier if he wasn't bathed often). My second gets baths more often (he spits up like crazy and his nickname is Stinker because he pooped constantly). So, number 1 got baths about once a week or less and number two gets two a week for awhile and then every day (or twice a day) for a stretch until his system gets back to normal. He (at 6 months) got a bath before sunrise this morning because it was easier than wipes.

[soozy87]

Every other day, unless his is spitting up a lot that day, then every day.

[kershnic]

Somewhere around once a week, when we remembered. We still kind of hover at 1-2 times per week at almost two....unless we like eat spaghetti or something.

[simpsongal]

Dec 9, 2015 16:21:17 GMT -5 Koala said:

And when do you start ramping up the frequency?

Ds is almost 2 and it's still every 4 days or so.

[snowflurry]

I always bathed the kids everyday. It helped their eczema and was part of the evening routine

[Koala]

Dec 9, 2015 16:35:04 GMT -5 kershnic said:

Somewhere around once a week, when we remembered. We still kind of hover at 1-2 times per week at almost two....unless we like eat spaghetti or something.

This makes me feel better!

[turtlegirl]

DD is 3 months old and probably gets a bath once a week. In reality, evenings are just super crazy and hectic with 3 kids and bathing the baby is like the lowest thing on the priority list, lol.

The boys are 3 and 5 and now that it's winter they only get a bath about 2x a week. In the summer when they are playing outside more, wearing sunscreen, etc then we try to up it to 3-4 times a week.

[kershnic]

Dec 9, 2015 16:41:45 GMT -5 Koala said:

Dec 9, 2015 16:35:04 GMT -5 kershnic said:

Somewhere around once a week, when we remembered. We still kind of hover at 1-2 times per week at almost two....unless we like eat spaghetti or something.

This makes me feel better!

it used to be really hard to bathe both without two adults. Thankfully that has recently gotten easier. But one of my kids hardly has any hair and I promise you you cannot tell if she was bathed this morning or last week.

[sillygoosegirl]

Dec 9, 2015 16:21:17 GMT -5 Koala said:

And when do you start ramping up the frequency?

It was between weekly and never at that age. We started ramping up the frequency when she started actually liking bathtime, at maybe 4-5 months. Once we started solids, we did bath after every single meal for a while.

[Jalapeñomel]

Maybe once a week. I'm now up to at 2 yo about once a week. Lol

[mekia]

Every 2-3 days.

With our 2 year old it's usually every other day.

[Koala]

Dec 9, 2015 16:47:53 GMT -5 kershnic said:

Dec 9, 2015 16:41:45 GMT -5 Koala said:

This makes me feel better!

it used to be really hard to bathe both without two adults. Thankfully that has recently gotten easier. But one of my kids hardly has any hair and I promise you you cannot tell if she was bathed this morning or last week.

Yes!  That's the struggle.  I can do it myself since neither of them hates bath time, but it isn't easy.  DS has more hair than DD, so, I feel bad for him if we skip a day.  

I was going to do it myself this afternoon, but I'm not feeling well today, so I'll get our nanny to help me tomorrow. 

[starburst]

DS is 5 months old and I've always done every other day or every 3rd day. He has a tendency to collect lint in his neck and armpits.

[luv2rn4fun]

Once a week til we developed a bedtime routine, which I believe was somewhere between 2-3 months old.  Since then I have bathed every night.

[thebreakfastclub]

DS got a bath and new sleeper every other day. He didn't spit up or have diaper leaks, and it was winter.

[miamigirl]

Every other day

[kaycee]

I bathe my newborn twice a week and my two year old every other day.

[krystee]

We did every day. He had hair that looked a little greasy on day two. Also he loves baths and it's part of his evening routine. Realistically we probably did six days a week because there was and is almost always one night where we were too busy to fit one in.

[greycat]

Probably once a week. DS hated baths and didn't spit up often.

[cyngymxo]

Daughter is 6 months old and we bathe her every night. It is mostly just because it's a nighttime routine for us and helps get her settled for bedtime