There are several contraindications for swimming with a child:
- Not healed umbilical wound. Until she heals, water procedures should be abstained.
- If the adult is not healthy (mainly skin diseases) or does not feel well - joint water procedures with the child are also contraindicated.
But if there are no contraindications, you can take a bath with your baby. Only before you start water procedures, be sure to wash yourself.
Why is bathing in the bath with a newborn, according to doctors, still possible? Well, you yourself think, in your bed, where your baby is probably sleeping sometimes, there are no less bacteria. And yet, you can recall the city pools or ponds where children bathe with other people.
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Opinions of mummies from forums
On the forums there are absolutely opposite opinions about bathing in the bathroom with your child. Some mothers believe that this is absolutely normal, while others are categorically against it. But most mothers agree on one thing - before you get into the bath with your baby, you need to consult a doctor.
Anna: Why not? I just feel completely calm about this. We not only swim, but also sleep together. The kid likes it, so I don’t see anything like this.
Selvia: My daughter and I are swimming with 3 months. Recently, however, we stopped doing this because my daughter began to like swimming with her brother. It happens that 20 minutes splash together. This is convenient for me, but he is already a big enough boy, so this, of course, is not very good.
Alyona: What do you have nothing to do? Isn’t it easier to wash yourself first, and then wash the child separately? Why climb into his bath? Firstly, it is unhygienic. Secondly, adults may have any kind of infection that can infect a child. And in general, this is somehow not good, because after a year the child begins to memorize certain moments from your joint bathing, which can badly affect his psyche. It's one thing to swim together in a river or lake is really fun, and in the bathroom is another. People bathe in the bathroom usually for personal hygiene. You would have thought of going to the toilet at the same time.
Marina: It would be necessary to go to the doctor and consult about this, but I still can not. And at the same time I worry about it very much. But the most important thing - I think that swimming with the baby is still possible, only first you need to talk to the doctor, heal, if necessary, and after you have cured your sores, you can already swim for yourself.
Alexandra: What purpose? Save water? I don’t see the point.Swimming in the sea together is a completely different matter. And in the bathroom - it didn’t even occur to me.
Helga_ru:For a month I swam a little, as soon as my discharge was over. She just terribly did not like to bathe in the children's bath, right from the first days she grabbed the sides and screamed all the bathing, I was shocked, after a week of torment she prepared a big bath for her, of course I poured some water and a miracle! daughter liked it, the first time she behaved calmly. Well, since it’s not Ice that’s standing over the bathtub, I soon got over there. And from about 6 months when the daughter was already well sitting and crawling, she began to bathe them together with her older sister. That was happiness. From the age of one year, the daughter could request a bath for anyone who bathed in me and dad, bathed several times a day.
Ketvampire: pediatricians are generally strange people. from another planet. listen to them - and you can’t eat anything - for all colic and allergies, and you can’t sleep together and swim. everything is bad. it is necessary to keep the child in a sterile flask and feed according to the schedule, taking into account all Soviet standards and norms. yeah. and swaddle! otherwise the curves will be like the brains of a doctor
Ketvampire: what nonsense? where from? what germs ??? you are his mother, you wore and gave birth to him. through the place where the microbes are sitting and there are even more in their mouths, but we kiss the children and nobody before that wash their mouth with bleach.
Helga Petrova: We were swimming in the same bathtub for about 10 months with our daughter, she fell asleep in the water with tit, my dad took her away - and I’ve been fooling for longer 🙂 IMHO, there’s nothing wrong with that, on the contrary it’s useful - such close physical contact 😉 I took a shower of hygiene precautions before how to swim with the baby, but sometimes forgot / did not have time
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Tatyana: uncle Dr. Komarovsky writes that swimming together is very hurt! You take a shower with soap in front of the bath and swim with your daughter. I also plan to master this method, because small became afraid of a big bath (I, damn it, a little sheep, when he was swimming on his tummy, he took a sip of water from me and was scared, screaming), and in the small bathtub of his priest he was already knocking on the bottom and no swimming. Therefore, I want to swim with him, so that he again begins to feel confident. And about the sores - you breastfeed and squeeze near you - what diseases ?! Yes, and before giving birth a hundred thousand times checked.
Melia: Yesterday I read in a magazine that bathing with your baby, especially for children who do not like to swim, is very useful. Because bathing is such a process, when it is important for the baby to feel a loved one nearby, and bathing together “skin to skin” brings together, and gives both only positive emotions. Like this.
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